Volume 32 Issue 4 February 20, 2024
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Massive Two Rivers Development Taking Shape Is The Two Rivers Development Expanding Both Wesley Chapel & New Tampa To East Of Morris Bridge Rd.?
EDITORIAL
Tell us why you want to ‘Leap Into The Next 30 years” of Neighborhood News with Gary! See page 3
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Future Although I had heard of Two Rivers before Chapel Lennar Elem Sch DR now, I didn’t really take notice of it until I saw a billHomes S.R. 56 Homes board on S.R. 54 near mine and Jannah’s apartment Future (which has a Land O’Lakes address) that proclaimed Comm’l Two Rivers as a “New Community — Wesley Chapel.” What? Did I somehow miss that Two Rivers was actually west of Morris Bridge Rd.? Coming The answer is a resounding “No,” but the 2024 community is being marketed as basically an extension of Wesley Chapel — and who could blame the Zephyrdeveloper or the home builders? hills According to its promotional materials, Two Rivers is “near Wesley Chapel” and will “give residents a best-of-both-worlds living experience.” Pasco Two Rivers will feature more than 7,500 planned County residential homes, townhomes, apartments and villas: “Those who make their home here will enjoy access Hillsborough to clubhouses, pools, parks, trails, sports courts and TECO County shared green spaces...and plans include K-12 schools, as well as retail space, future options for dining, caComing fés, groceries and beauty services, fitness and more.” 2025 New One of the first two villages already selling Thonotosassa homes in Two Rivers is Childers by Lennar Homes, Tampa with “447 total homesites, about 100 sold and 65 closed or moved into,” according to new home consultant Brooke Politano. Homes in Childers start in the mid-$300,000s. The other village now selling is Northwater by D.R. Horton, with 360 total homes, also starting in the mid $300s, with about 30 homes already with This map of Two Rivers shows the portions that are currently under development, as well as residents. Both subdivisions are north of S.R. 56. the future plans in both Hillsborough & Pasco counties. (Two Rivers map modified by NN) See “Two Rivers” on pg. 4
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If you haven’t taken a ride on S.R. 56 eastbound past Morris Bridge Rd. recently, I believe you probably should do so. While Wesley Chapel and New Tampa residents online complain about how every remaining shred of land in our communities is being developed, adding to our ever-increasing traffic at the expense of open space and a more pastoral way of life, it seems that others outside of any known boundary of Wesley Chapel (as I presented in our Oct. 3 issue) are now creating new communities that may ultimately finally move what even I call Wesley Chapel (and, to a lesser extent, New Tampa) well to the east, too. Before the creation of the huge 6,000-acre Two Rivers Master-Planned Unit Development (MPUD), the only community in Zephyrhills that pretty much anyone would confuse with being Wesley Chapel-like was Lake Bernadette, which has fewer than 1,000 total households with entrances on both Eiland Blvd. and S.R. 54, all in zip code 33541. But, it seems that you could fit all of Lake Bernadette inside Two Rivers, which is being developed by Eisenhower Property Group, due east of Morris Bridge Rd. in both Pasco and Hillsborough counties. In fact, Two Rivers is actually larger than the 5,000-acre Wiregrass Ranch development to its west. And, like Lake Bernadette, the zip code for the Pasco portions of Two Rivers that began being developed in December of 2023 is 33541. That means that if I decide to start mailing the Neighborhood News there, I will be expanding our all-direct-mail distribution east of Wesley Chapel for the first time.
More About Two Rivers
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By GARY NAGER
THEATRE BEAT!
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LOTS TO LOVE ABOUT LIMA!
Gary’s Favorite Latin Restaurant in our area for 2023 adds some amazing new dishes! See page 40
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Check out the Mexican restaurant’s new & improved flavors on pg. 38!
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