{"id":393633,"date":"2026-09-08T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393633\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:20:11","slug":"groundbreaking-today-for-usfs-new-fletcher-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393633\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking today for USF&#8217;s new &#8216;Fletcher District&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. &#8212; The University of South Florida is breaking ground on its new Fletcher District today.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed-use district will be built along North 46th Street on the university&#8217;s old golf course. The 30-acre mixed-use project will cost nearly $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>University officials said the nearby forest preserve will not be touched.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes more student housing, restaurants, a hotel and retail spaces. It will also include an academic research building.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be right across the street from the university&#8217;s new on-campus football stadium, which is projected to open next year.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the new development is expected to open in fall 2028.<\/p>\n<p>In March,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hcfl.gov\/government\/board-of-county-commissioners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County commissioners<\/a> unanimously approved $24 million for infrastructure and public safety improvements.<\/p>\n<p>About $10 million of that will go toward building a pedestrian bridge over Fletcher Avenue connecting the district to the school\u2019s new on-campus stadium, opening in fall 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8212; The University of South Florida is breaking ground on its new Fletcher District today. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,558,276,115,275,135,137,136,278],"class_list":["post-393633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393633","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=393633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}