Our Top 5 Things To Look Forward To In 2022! entertainment destination hub in Pasco County, if not all of Tampa Bay.
By JOHN C. COTEY
john@NTNeighborhoodNews.com
Wesley Chapel is on a great run of fun and interesting projects, and 2022 should be no different. Here’s the five we’re most looking forward to this year. 1. KRATE Container Park The long-awaited KRATE container park at The Grove at Wesley Chapel is expected to be fully open by summer 2022 — which is great news for local residents in the quickly expanding S.R 54 corridor looking for more shopping and dining options. There are so many cool things coming to Wesley Chapel this year, but KRATE is No. 1 due to the unique nature of the project and the anticipation that has built up because it has taken much longer than many expected, due in no small part to a variety of Covid-related issues. KRATE was the jewel of developer Mark Gold’s plans when his company, Mishorim Gold Properties, bought The Grove, then a moribund 250-acre parcel anchored by a shopping center, for $64 million in September 2019. Gold has invested an additional $20-million in the KRATE, which he claims will be the largest container park in the U.S. and
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2. PopStroke Entertainment Remember a few years ago when the major complaint about Wesley Chapel was that there was nothing to do? Well, since 2016, we’ve added the Advent Health Center Ice facility, the Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus of Pasco County, an indoor recreation center and outdoor roller hockey rink at the Wesley Chapel District Park and the Main Event bowling alley and game center on S.R. 56. As if that’s not enough, in 2022, Tiger Woods PopStroke Entertainment, a mini-golf and restaurant concept he owns with entrepreneur Greg Bartoli, is coming The long-awaited KRATE container park is the coolest thing opening in Wesley Chapel in 2022, to Wesley Chapel’s Cypress Creek Town but it’s far from the only thing. (Photo: Charmaine George) Center on the north side of S.R. 56. The project went vertical in Novemsomething that will draw visitors from ence in these Covid-ridden times — an ber and is expected to open this spring. around the state to Wesley Chapel. open-air market featuring restaurants, PopStroke will feature specially deThe seven-acre KRATE project retail shops and even a stage that will host signed holes (by Woods and TGR Design, will feature 55 businesses in converted concerts and other performances. his award-winning design team) that are shipping containers, each with their own Its proximity to The Grove’s big meant to mimic real putting on a real product-centric mural painted on the side box stores, and popular restaurants like course, so no bridges, windmills or ramps by artist Whitney Holbourn of Colorado. Treble Makers and the Falabella Family will be getting in the way. PopStroke will Only two stores — Provisions CofBistro, the Double Branch Artisanal Ales have two 18-hole putting courses, with fee & Kitchen and Shake-A-Salad — are craft brewery, The Grove movie theater synthetic turfs, fairways, bunkers and already open. Once the others are ready, (and home of Side Splitters comedy club) rough. The elevation changes throughout the KRATE is expected to cash in on and a new mini-golf course (see below) the course will bring it to life. what is likely to be a welcome experiwill make The Grove arguably the top
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