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6th Annual Crawfish Festival Returns To Winthrop By Lisa Jordan
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The 6th Annual Crawfish Festival will take place Saturday, April 16.
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The Rotary Club of FishHawkRiverview is excited to announce the 6th Annual Crawfish Festival, which will be held on Saturday, April 16 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Winthrop Park area in Winthrop at 11349 Bloomingdale Ave. in Riverview (behind Ciccio Cali Brandon). All proceeds are donated to local charities and scholarship funds. There will be entertainment and free activities for the children. Admission is free. The Rotary Club will be picking up over 2,000 lbs. of Louisiana crawfish and cooking will be overseen by expert chef, Michael Broussard. Additional authentic Creole and Cajun food will be provided by the title sponsor, Roux Creole Nouvelle. Brandon Regional Hospital is another Title Sponsor for the Crawfish Festival. Additional sponsors include Stingray Chevrolet and Money Mailer of Eastern Hillsborough County. Marie Gilmore has attended the Crawfish Festival many times over the past six years. “The annual Crawfish
festival is an event we look forward to as a family. It's a great event, with amazing food, music and fun for a good cause and we wouldn't miss it,” she said. Friends of Hillsborough County Animals Services will have pets available for adoption. Charity shredding by Shred360 will start at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased online. Reservations are requested before Thursday, April 10 to guarantee a Crawfish Meal available for you and your family on the day of the event. The meal will include about 2-3 lbs. of crawfish with the fixings (corn and potatoes). The Rotary has sold out in all previous years so pre-ordering is your best option. Other food items and beverages will be available for purchase at the event. Free hotdogs will be given away to children that bring nonperishable food donations. There are many ways the community can help make this event a success including sponsorship, volunteering, donations, selling tickets and more. To be a vendor, contact the Rotary. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.Fishhawk RiverviewRotary.org/event/crawfishfestival/ or at www.facebook.com/ RotaryClubofFishHawkRiverview/.
Photo by Tamas Mondovics
As the two youngest artists representing the 8th Annual Winthrop Arts Festival and Artisan Market, Celia Moskowitz, 8, and her sister Gigi, 6, of C and G Designs stand proudly by their work of canvas paintings as well as hand painted shells the girls collected from New Smyrna Beach. The free two-day event held last month on the Winthrop Commons lawn in Winthrop Towne Center in Riverview featured nearly 40 artists and vendors and saw a steady flow of visitors and art lovers who also enjoyed music, food and drinks. More information for guests and artists can be found at www.winthroparts.org. Read more on page 20.
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Riverview’s Last Remaining Large Development Tract Sells For $12M
By Tamas Mondovics
homes begin construction in 2015, making it the number one area for new home growth in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties. For example, a brand new four-bedroom, four-bath 2,500sq.-ft. home in Waterleaf Estates off Big Bend Rd. in Riverview built by Lennar, costs approximately $280,000, while the same size house in South Tampa would be upward of Workers finishing the bottom level of a home in a new $500,000. development in Riverview. "Our communities in Colliers International Tampa Bay Hillsborough County continue to Southern recently helped sell 106-acres in attract a high level of interest and traffic Riverview to Mattamy Homes for $12.1 from prospective buyers,” said Mark million, confirming that Riverview is not Metheny, Division President of Lennar only open for business, but that the econFlorida. “We’re thrilled to see the Central omy in the SouthShore portion of growth of the area with new restaurants, Hillsborough County is booming. retail and things to do, which are attracMattamy Homes is no stranger to tive amenities, especially to families.” growth as it has more than 20 residential Lennar is currently building in three communities in Florida, including Triple SouthShore communities; Belmont in Creek in Riverview, which is approximateRuskin, Enclave at Boyette as well as ly five miles south of the newly purchased Hawks Point, also in Ruskin, which fealand parcel. tures a price range from $192,990 According to representatives of $253,99s and homes ranging from 1,677 Colliers International Group Inc., the parto 3,210 sq. ft. with three to six cel previously owned by the Goolsby fambedrooms. Visit colliers.com. ily is the last remaining large residential development tract of land in Riverview, located near the intersection of Boyette Rd. and McMullen Rd. adjacent to the Publix-anchored Goolsby Pointe shopping center. The recent transaction is good news for investors in a community boasting of more residential development than any other submarket in the Tampa Bay area. “The high level of home sales activity we are seeing in Riverview and throughout South Hillsborough County is due to the amount of available land combined with fair home pricing,” said Colliers Director of Land Services Mark Eilers. “This transaction marks the next step in the evolution of a competitive submarket with a high barrier to entry.” Eilers words are backed by research company Metrostudy, which showed that South Hillsborough County had 2,502
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