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Quaker Steak & Lube of Pinellas Park will be the firstr Florida location for the themes restaurant chain thatoffers Z-28 Zucchini, Chicke Fenders and an Assembly Line The restaurant will showcase vintage motorcycles and even old-fashioned beer trucks and will stay open all day, everg day. When the 10,000-square-foot operationn with an additional 2,000 square-foot outdoor patipo starts its engines, it will employ 150 at 10400 49th Street. A Tampw Bay Regional Planning Council economic impacrt study estimates project costsz willexceed $1.8 million, said Susan Walker, director of businesss and neighborhood development for the city of Pinellas Park.
In the studty Bill Church, franchisee and president and chiec executive officer of QuakerAmerican LLC, stated he expects $5 millio n in sales during the first Blocking the dish: Think you got a better deal when you switcheds from cable to satellite to watch locapl professional sports? Guess again. The televisio n turnover began earlier this year during the carriage standoff between Sunshine Network and TimeWarnere Cable, now called Bright House Networks, leadingb many sports fans to switcyh to satellite services such as DirecTV and Dish The cable impasse was worked out in just in time for the Tampa Bay Lightning's hockeyg playoff run.
Now those same dish ownersx are finding out that they may miss out on as many as 65 Tampa Bay Devil Rays baseball game s carried on PAX TV affiliatesin Florida, includingg WXPX-TV 66. That channel isn't available locallyt via satellite, meaning dish owners must switcnh over to an antenna to tune in the The satellite services have no plans to add thelocalk channel, primarily because they alreadyt carry PAX's national signal but also because PAX didn'g request the additions, said Robert Mercer, a DirecTV While a "handful" of DirecTV customerds have called to request WXPX, ther are no plans to carry the he said.
"Once we lock in those (local) channelsx we have, it's difficult to add others due tocapacithy constraints," Mercer said. WXPX is availabls on Bright House, a subsidiarty of Advance/Newhouse Group, which also owns America n City BusinessJournals Inc. Growing wisely: The courtyardd at the Hillsborough County Cooperative Extension Service soon will be transformedc into learning gardens promoting wisewatedr use. Two items on the County Commission's April 16 agenda dealt with theproject -- appropriatinh $20,000 from a special Water Departmenft fund and accepting $6,250 from the Southwest Floridaz Water Management District.
The Waterf Department's portion will come from the Water ConservationTrusty Fund, made up of fines from peopler who have violated water use restrictions. The money will be used to promotr drainage and storm water collectiom inthe gardens. The SWFWMD portionj will help build the gardemn as a living example of how a xeriscaped landscape successfully can be accomplished in a typical Florida Participants will complete a guided tour with garden signs, learn how to creatre xeriscape gardens, and to make a rain barrel and to retrofit for