Category: Business
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Oldsmar Cares still changing lives after 20 years
Oldsmar Cares, the nonprofit organization that offers everything from food and clothing to legal, medical and job placement services, has been helping Oldsmar area residents for the past 20 years. The headquarters of Oldsmar Cares is in a small, nondescript house hiding in plain site on a busy stretch of State Road 580. But don’t…
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Council members praise USF students for downtown development concept
A group of USF students tasked with coming up with a new vision for Oldsmar’s downtown redevelopment project presented their final design concepts to the City Council on Tuesday night. A group of USF students tasked with coming up with a new vision for Oldsmar’s downtown redevelopment project presented their final design concepts to the…
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Concerns arise about students’ plan for downtown Oldsmar development
Following a public presentation of the conceptual plan for the development of Oldsmar’s downtown district, city officials raised a number of concerns about the viability, and direction, of the project. TECO Hall was lined with rows of drawings, diagrams, data and displays on Monday afternoon, as students from USF’s School of Architecture and Community Design…
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Oldsmar invites public input on downtown development project
Oldsmar officials, in conjunction with USF design students, will host a Community Concept Display of the Redevelopment Master Plan of State Street on Monday afternoon at the library’s TECO Hall. Oldsmar’s plan to redevelop its downtown district has been through several variations, the most recent of which involves a $55,000 partnership with the University of…
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Oldsmar to pay $50K for centennial concert in October
The City of Oldsmar will cap off its yearlong centennial celebration with a special concert featuring a lineup of rock legends at Tampa Bay Downs on October 1. The City of Oldsmar’s centennial festivities have already featured a concert by the Black Honkeys, a swanky dinner dance at Nielsen, and a classic Oldsmobile car show amid the…
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Beverland drops trio of “bombshells” in return to city council
When Jerry Beverland was reelected to the Oldsmar City Council two weeks ago, he promised to drop a “bombshell” in his first meeting back. As usual, the longtime local lawmaker did not disappoint. When Jerry Beverland won the race for Oldsmar City Council Seat 4 two weeks ago, he promised he would return to office with…
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Horse trails lead to high tension in Oldsmar
Encroaching development has squeezed HorsePower For Kids, a nonprofit farm located on Race Track Road, off the City of Oldsmar’s trails, leading to a passionate group of supporters packing the Council Chambers on Tuesday to express their feelings about the issue. It’s not often you hear the words horse*bleep*, “road apples,” and manure used at…
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Workshop could lead to changes within Oldsmar building department
A workshop was held on Tuesday, March 8, in order to open a line of dialogue between the Oldsmar City Council and the city’s building department in light of recent complaints lodged against the department. In January, Matt and Sheri Clarke appeared before the Oldsmar City Council to outline a litany of complaints about the city’s…
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Could the Tampa Bay Rays move to Oldsmar?
Could the Tampa Bay Rays move from St. Petersburg to Oldsmar? If Oldsmar Mayor Doug Bevis has his way, the answer will be ‘yes.’ For the past few years, Bevis has made no secret of the fact that he would love to see the Rays move from south St. Pete to his city located at…
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Oldsmar gets “edgy“ with new downtown development plan
A recent partnership between the City of Oldsmar and the University of South Florida led to the first public art project in the city, with art school grad Lakeema Matthew set to begin painting her meaningful mural at R.E. Olds Park next week. So when it came time to breathe new life into Oldsmar’s long-gestating…