Black Friday is upon us once again and the mall holiday shopping trips south by New Tampa and Wesley Chapel residents begin. This will probably be the last year that we see heavy southbound traffic from shoppers on Black Friday though.
With almost 3 million square feet in 3 new malls opening in Wesley Chapel in 2008, traffic patterns will be reversed as local residents and shoppers from Tampa choose to shop at “our” new malls. By then, I expect the widening of Bruce B. Downs from County Line Rd. to S.R. 54, the massive intersection at S.R. 56 and Bruce B. Downs, and at least part of the extension of S.R. 56 to be complete. The widening of S.R. 54 (west of I-75) should be underway, if not complete too.
It will be interesting to see the impact all this new Wesley Chapel retail space will have on nearby University Mall, with rumors of its closing.
I am not much of a mall shopper and this is certainly one day out of the year that I refuse to even enter a mall parking lot. Happy shopping folks!
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