Westchase Town Center Owner Requests Community Assistance - World of Westchase

WOW Editor/Posted Nov 23, 2022

Twenty-six voting members attended the November VM meeting, which was held via Zoom. Westchase Community Association president Shawn Yesner called the gathering to order. Following the support of minutes from the July meeting, which was the past regular meeting, Yesner turned the level implicit to Eric Holt,  Government Affairs Committee Chair. Holt had brought successful impermanent speakers from Real Property Specialists, Inc. (RPS), the institution that owns and manages the Westchase Town Center.

The halfway is location to Tijuana Flats, Burger 21 and Chipotle. Holt past introduced Alan Charron, president and proprietor of RPS, and Vanessa Silva, who serves arsenic the center’s spot manager.

Charron explained that helium developed the Westchase Town Center to service arsenic the societal epicenter of the Westchase community. There are astir 3 acres of greenish abstraction betwixt Maloney’s and the Fifth Third Bank that were intended to beryllium utilized for events, and Charron said helium feels that the abstraction is being underutilized.

He hopes to find a section nonmigratory to unpaid to signifier much events that would payment the full community. RPS is based successful Orlando, which makes it hard for their employees to beryllium arsenic hands-on arsenic Charron wishes they could be, helium said. He wanted to scope retired straight to Westchase residents, which is what prompted him to be the VM meeting.

“In summation to doing foundation oregon fundraising functions, we’ve besides thought astir putting immoderate pickleball courts retired there. I was reasoning I’d similar to formal it up a small spot with artificial turf. Maybe enactment a putting greenish retired there,” mused Charron. “There are opportunistic things that tin hap retired there. Together with Vanessa, our spot manager, you tin assistance america collaborate and coordinate to bash much with what we’ve got.”

Yesner mentioned that Westchase utilized that greenish abstraction to observe its 30^th day successful May, and the lawsuit had a large turnout and was mostly rather successful. He said helium planned to suggest to the committee that the day solemnisation go an yearly event.

Charron noted that the assemblage needs a promoter oregon lawsuit coordinator that would beryllium consenting to enactment with section individuals and organizations to coordinate quarterly, monthly, oregon adjacent play events. There presently is nary complaint to usage the space, continued Charron, and the extremity is not for RPS to bring successful much money. Parking and energy are already disposable for immoderate imaginable events.

“We person specified a beauteous plaza,” said Charron. “We privation to beryllium the archetypal thought and get the connection retired truthful we’re successful people’s heads erstwhile they’re reasoning of wherever to clasp their events.”

Yesner past gave the level backmost to Holt, who told the VMs helium was seeking volunteers to seat and articulation a caller Notifications Committee. The WCA has a comparatively caller website, which tin beryllium recovered astatine westchasewca.com. Residents whitethorn sojourn the website to motion up for assemblage notifications via email and/or text.

“We person this large brand-new website and 1 of the things we present person to leverage is the quality for radical to motion up for notifications from the association. Unfortunately, though we’ve got this large capability, determination hasn’t been overmuch treatment astir however champion to utilize it,” said Holt. “The committee felt similar the astir due assemblage to enactment connected managing this would beryllium the VMs.”

Holt told the VMs that they didn’t person to respond immediately, but should scope retired to him to explicit their involvement successful chairing oregon serving connected the committee.

The WCA committee voted to determination their monthly meetings from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m., and Yesner asked the VMs whether they wanted to see making the aforesaid change. Linda Pisano, who represents Saville Row, made a question to determination the monthly meetings from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. No 1 seconded the motion, however, truthful it failed.

Dawn Brown from the Enclave, past made a question to determination the meetings to 6:30 p.m. Nancy Sells, from Harbor Links/The Estates, seconded the motion. The question passed, with 20 VMs voting successful favour and six VMs voting against it.

Yesner past reminded the VMs that determination would beryllium nary December meeting, and the January gathering would beryllium held successful person. The gathering was adjourned astatine 7:41 p.m.

By Lynn Gonzalez