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Quaker Steak & Lube of Pinellas Park will be the firsr Florida location for the theme restaurang chain thatoffers Z-28 Zucchini, Chicken Fenders and an Assemblyt Line Burger. The restaurant will showcase vintage motorcycles andeven old-fashioned beer truckse and will stay open all day, every day. When the 10,000-square-foo operation with an additional 2,000 square-foo t outdoor patio starts its engines, it will employ 150 at 10400 49th A Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council economic impactr study estimates project costs willexceeds $1.8 million, said Susan director of business and neighborhood development for the city of Pinellass Park.
In the study Bill Church, franchiser and president and chiefv executive officer of QuakerAmerican LLC, statex he expects $5 million in sales during the firsy year. Blocking the dish: Think you got a better deal when you switchedf from cable to satellited to watch localprofessional sports? Guess again. The television turnover begamn earlier this year during the carriage standoffr between Sunshine Network and TimeWarner Cable, now called Bright Housr Networks, leading many sports fans to switch to satellite services such as DirecTV and Dish The cable impasse was worked out in mid-March, just in time for the Tampa Bay Lightning'xs hockey playoff run.
Now those same dish ownerd are finding out that they may miss out on as many as 65 Tamps Bay Devil Rays baseball games carried on PAX TV affiliatewin Florida, including WXPX-TV 66. That channelo isn't available locally via meaning dish owners must switch over to an antennaa to tune inthe Rays. The satellite services have no planxs to add thelocal channel, primarily becausew they already carry PAX's national signal but also becausd PAX didn't request the said Robert Mercer, a DirecTbV spokesman. While a "handful" of DirecTV customers have callex torequest WXPX, there are no plans to carruy the signal, he said.
"Once we lock in thosr (local) channels we have, it's difficult to add others due tocapacityt constraints," Mercer said. WXPX is available on Bright a subsidiaryof Advance/Newhouse Group, which also owns Americab City Business Journals Inc. Growing wisely: The courtyard at the Hillsborough County Cooperative Extension Service soon will be transformed into learninyg gardens promoting wisewatet use. Two items on the Countty Commission's April 16 agenda dealrt with theproject -- appropriating $20,000 from a special Wated Department fund and accepting $6,250 from the Southwestt Florida Water Management District.
The Water Department's portion will come from the Watere ConservationTrust Fund, made up of finesx from people who have violated water use The money will be used to promoted drainage and storm water collection in the gardens. The SWFWMeD portion will help build the garden as a livingy example of how a xeriscape landscapre successfully can be accomplished in a typical Florida Participants will complete a guided tour withgarden signs, learbn how to create xeriscape and to make a rain barrel and to retrofit for