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Wesley Chapel Baseball Complex meets $23 million dollar financing deadline (via suncoastnews.com)
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 | On Target Page: Wesley Chapel, Wesley Chapel Community Events
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WESLEY CHAPEL (via suncoastnews.com) — Get your peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Break in your mitt. In two years, Pasco County could be home to the largest year-round youth baseball complex in the world.
With minutes to spare before a midnight deadline, Blue Marble founder James Talton and former Major League Baseball star Gary Sheffield came through with a financing plan for the $23 million needed for the county to release $11 million in tourist tax revenue it has pledged to help build the complex.
The game of baseball doesn’t have a clock — but this deal most definitely had an expiration date.
“To put this in terms of a baseball analogy, this came down to the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded with two outs,†Talton said. “I think we have hit a home run that wins the game for all of us, the county and the developer.â€
Talton’s proposal for the complex, which would be northeast of the Shops at Wiregrass retail center, involves a two-pronged financing strategy.
Check out the full story at: http://suncoastnews.com/su/list/news-pasco/wesley-chapel-ball-complex-financing-plan-beats-deadline-20141014
With minutes to spare before a midnight deadline, Blue Marble founder James Talton and former Major League Baseball star Gary Sheffield came through with a financing plan for the $23 million needed for the county to release $11 million in tourist tax revenue it has pledged to help build the complex.
The game of baseball doesn’t have a clock — but this deal most definitely had an expiration date.
“To put this in terms of a baseball analogy, this came down to the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded with two outs,†Talton said. “I think we have hit a home run that wins the game for all of us, the county and the developer.â€
Talton’s proposal for the complex, which would be northeast of the Shops at Wiregrass retail center, involves a two-pronged financing strategy.
Check out the full story at: http://suncoastnews.com/su/list/news-pasco/wesley-chapel-ball-complex-financing-plan-beats-deadline-20141014
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