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Shops At Wiregrass Will Open This Fall

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 28, 2008

WESLEY CHAPEL - The developers of the Shops at Wiregrass say they're about 60 percent finished with the massive retail complex now going up at the corner of State Road 56 and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard.

Opening Day is scheduled for Oct. 30, said Jim Richardson, vice president of Cleveland-based mall builder Forest City Enterprises.

Richardson recently led a tour of the project - the southwest corner of which is about all that is visible from outside the property. That tour revealed acres of future shopping space taking shape.

Workers welded the steel-girder framing of a new Macy's department store while others applied stucco to the exterior of other buildings. Stores framing the eastern entrance of JCPenney are painted in earth tones. The parking lots surrounding the half moon-shaped plaza are paved, but interior roads are still dirt.

Meanwhile, Pasco County officials are reviewing building permits for several Wiregrass tenants. The list includes clothing retailers J. Jill, Talbots and Hollister, as well as Lenscrafters, Starbucks and Zales.

Kevin Wiatrowski

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