TAMPA PALMS - Construction has started on the Cypress Preserve Drive extension that will connect Bruce B. Downs Boulevard to Tampa Palms Boulevard. The 3,000-foot section connects two existing segments of the road. The southernmost segment ends at Compton Drive near the New Tampa Family YMCA. Another segment extends beyond Tampa Palms Boulevard, ending at the entrance to the Village of Whitehall. ...more

January 23, 2008

SEBRING — Pastor Mike Karl got an unwelcome Christmas gift this year. Construction crews arrived outside the New Testament Church and Mission, where he is the director, on Wednesday and began clearing and grading land for the Sebring Parkway just 17 feet from his building's front door. When talks about the Sebring Parkway started about 20 years ago, Karl said it seemed like a pipe dream, but it's now come to fruition. "I guess that's progress," Karl said with a shrug. "I think when it is all done, we will get used to it." The driveway where the mission received donations is now gone, and anyone with donations should detour to the driveway further northwest on Eucalyptus Street. ...more

December 29, 2007

On a sprawling piece of land off Trouble Creek Road, between walled-in subdivisions and heavily congested roadways, a church is rising from the earth. ...more

December 21, 2007

SEBRING — Construction crews began work on Phase Two of the Sebring Parkway in July, doing mostly off-road work near Sebring High School. On Jan. 2, those construction crews will start the serious road building work, causing the complete shut-down of Eucalyptus Street, between Center and Grapefruit streets, for at least four and possibly as many as six months. This section of the parkway will replace the current two-lane Eucalyptus Street with a five-lane roadway with turning lanes. Phase Two of the parkway also will convert the current Highlands Avenue into a five-lane roadway, running all the way to U.S. 27. ...more

December 20, 2007

New York's Fifth Avenue, London's Oxford Street and Chicago's Magnificent Mile have nothing to fear from downtown Tampa. ...more

December 19, 2007

SEBRING – Eucalyptus Street, which is being converted into the next leg of Sebring Parkway, will be closed for most of the first half of 2008. ...more

December 19, 2007

Patrick Corcoran is looking for a couple of thousand people unsatisfied with their gyms. And if they like working out at 3 a.m., that's OK. ...more

December 16, 2007

Attention, Flamingo Drive residents: Just when you thought it was safe to come out of your driveways, county workers announce another detour. ...more

December 15, 2007

For years, 30th Street Southeast has been a two-lane shortcut of little more than a mile through tomato fields, stretching north from the College Avenue spot where Sun City Center drifts into Ruskin to connect to 19th Avenue. ...more

December 5, 2007

A section of Main Street will be closed from 3 p.m. today until 8 a.m. Tuesday while construction crews install an underground drainage pipe. ...more

December 2, 2007