{"id":183918,"date":"2026-03-09T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183918\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:46:00","slug":"hillsborough-county-commits-24m-to-new-fletcher-district-at-usf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183918\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County commits $24M to new \u2018Fletcher District\u2019 at USF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goal is to turn a former golf course at the University of South Florida into a mixed-use development. <\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Hillsborough County is committing $24 million to help build the new \u201cFletcher District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to turn a former golf course at the University of South Florida into a mixed-use development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first phase will cover about 27 acres, located north of Fletcher Avenue and east of North 46th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Plans include student and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2025\/usf-releases-new-renderings-of-fletcher-district-as-project-receives-state-level-approval.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">multi-family housing, a hotel and conference center, plus retail and restaurants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The county is partnering with USF to help fund infrastructure and public safety improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Those upgrades could include new roads, turn lanes, traffic signals, intersection improvements, and a pedestrian bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan says the improvements will help support growth in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Hagan said the upgrades are \u201cnot restricted to but include turn lanes, traffic improvements, a traffic signal, intersection improvements, new roads, and a pedestrian bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian bridge would go over Fletcher Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will come from the county\u2019s Community Investment Tax.<\/p>\n<p>Phase one of the project is expected to open in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goal is to turn a former golf course at the University of South Florida into a mixed-use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-183918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}