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Tampa Buyers Choose Highly Desirable Westchase Area Lake Chase is a lake front gated residential community surrounded by lush and tranq uil landscape. Residents enjoy a resort style pool and sauna, a 24-hour fitness center, tennis courts, a playground, winding nature trails and a large community club house. Lake Chase, adjacent to the master planned and highly desirable Westchase community development in Northwest Tampa, is conveniently located near shopping, dinning, schools and entertainment. Home owners enjoy an exciting, fun, and active community with access to numerous parks and recreational facilities, convenient retail shopping and outstanding schools, all within a few short miles. The Westchase Square retail center is located five minutes from Lake Chase and includes a grocery store, bank, dry cleaner and other necessary services as well as a wide variety of restaurants and entertainment. Along with the local conveniences offered by the community, Lake Chase is also located n

T. Rowe Price paid $13.5 million last Wednesday for a 75-acre site on State Road 54 in Pasco County. The Baltimore based financial services firm plans to use this land as the site of its new Tampa Bay corporate campus that is expected to bring at least 1,200 new jobs to the Tampa Bay area. The company, aimed at expanding in the region, plans to build three 150,000 square foot buildings on there new site. The relocation to Pasco County is part of an important expansion of T. Rowe Price’s overall operations. This move gives Pasco County a major global employer and is anticipated to bring significant growth to the region. A county commissioned study said that T. Rowe Price could add more than $58.5 million in government taxes and school coffers during the next decade. The project will bring more high-wage jobs to Pasco and reverse some of the heavy commuting along the State Road 54 corridor, the state road that runs along New Tampa , Wesley Chapel and Odessa. With this new development, a