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Riverview 14 Shopping And Entertainment Riverview Wounded Veteran Gets Center On Schedule For Fall Opening Hero’s Welcome, Free New Home By Tamas Mondovics
By Tamas Mondovics
Injured USMC Corporal Anthony Trzeciak (center) and his family are joined by local representatives of Building Homes For Heroes during a recent ceremony where he was honored for his service and sacrifice to his country by being presented with a brand new mortgage-free home in Riverview.
Heroes made sure that the entire house is built to help the wheelchair-bound vet in every way possible, including maneuvering in and around his new home. Special features include no step at the front door, lowered counter tops and pull-out cabinets in the kitchen and throughout the house, not to mention one of the best features; the handicap-accessible bathroom with a 5 ft. radius allowing him to wheel around with ease. Anthony enlisted in the military in 2008 in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, and served through January of 2012. On July 1, 2011, Anthony’s vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan, injuring his back and head. Afterward, he contracted an infection and was paralyzed from the waist
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Corporal Anthony Trzeciak received a one of a kind welcome home ceremony last month that included a special gift fitting for an injured U.S. military veteran. Nearly 200 supporters and representatives of Building Homes for Heroes (BHH), a national nonprofit organization that builds modified homes and gifts them to wounded veterans and their families, gathered to honor Trzeciak, his wife, Tara, and their two children with a brand new mortgage-free home. Built by William Ryan Homes in the Enclave at South Fork community in Riverview, the new four bedroom, 2,600 sq. ft. house includes amenities like a screened-in pool overlooking a lake in the back. The pool will come in handy for Anthony as he continues to perform his water therapy, and Building Homes for
Construction of the Riverview 14 Shopping and Entertainment Center, one of eastern Hillsborough County’s newest installments located between the Gibsonton Walmart Supercenter and Interstate 75, is now showing clear signs of progress and is as scheduled with plans to open this fall. According to Strathmore Development Company Vice President Terry Benton, the communiHillsborough County Commissioner Stacy ty’s interest in the project, which began White, District 4, speaks to residents during the groundbreaking ceremony of Riverview with an official groundbreaking ceremo14 Shopping and Entertainment Center, ny earlier this year, has been consistent earlier this year. and positive. are all on the list of tenants to occupy the “Interest in our Riverview 14 theater plaza, while three additional lots are now project next to the Walmart Supercenter under contract with a buyer that is planhas been terrific after breaking ground ning three small-shop buildings fronting only five short months ago,” Benton said. New East Bay Road. Benton said con“With about one-third of the onsite improvements finished and the 14 screen struction will start soon on widening New East Bay Road and soon will be cutting in movie theater walls up, we are getting the two new private roads into the center. calls nearly every day from national, Visit www.strathmore.com. regional and local tenants interested in this I-75 interchange development.” The 30-acre entertainment, retail and restaurant development, will be anchored In This Issue by Riverview 14 GDX, a state of the art 14-screen movie theater, operated by Goodrich Quality Theaters based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. FREE SWIM LESSONS............................PG 8 The theater will feature “GDX” (Giant Digital eXperience), the company’s cutCAREER JOB FAIR...............................PG 12 ting-edge large format auditorium, with a HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS............PG 22 giant 80-foot-wide screen allowing floorto-ceiling viewing. CHALKLINES.........................................PG 28 The screens will range in size from FISH TALES.........................................PG 32 40-ft. to more than 70-ft. wide in a nearly 70,000 sq.-ft. upscale building. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT...................PG 41 Benton confirmed that counting the 14-screen multiplex, five of the 12 lots SPORTS CONNECTION.................PGS 42‐43 have now been sold or are under conREAD MORE LOCAL NEWS ONLINE tract. www.ospreyobserver.com Zaxby’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, BaskinRobbins, Little Caesars and a T-Mobile
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Marine Corps League Riverview Detachment #1226 member Walt Raysick directs the Navy Two-Bell ceremony during the 2016 Memorial Day Ceremony at Serenity Meadows Memorial Park in Riverview. As guest speaker, the event welcomed Army Captain Anh O. Brown (retired), as well as members of the Riverview High School ROTC, Timucua District Boy Scouts Troop 79 and the VFW Post 8118 Auxiliary.
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