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By YVETTE C. HAMMETT

The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 2, 2008

VALRICO - VALRICO - An Oregon company with retirement villages across the country is targeting a 20-acre parcel off Lithia-Pinecrest Road for its next project.

Holiday Retirement Corp., which will provide on-site management for the complex, bills it as an active retirement community with round-the-clock transportation for singles and couples in their late 70s and 80s who no longer feel comfortable driving.

The complex, southeast of Bloomingdale Avenue across from the Mason Oaks subdivision, will be privately owned and won't receive federal subsidies for low-income seniors.

Holiday Retirement manages more than 300 retirement villages in the United States and Canada, according to the company's Web site, including locations in Clearwater, Port Richey, Bradenton and Sarasota.

"All the units will be rentals, with 118 of them suites without kitchens," said Dan Roach, project manager for the development. "Residents can use the central dining room, which will provide three meals a day, seven days a week."

The retirement complex also will have 17 one-story duplex apartments for residents who still drive and want to cook their own meals. Each will have its own garage. The three-story central building will taper to two stories, then one, on two sides.

The month-to-month rent will include meals, utilities and management for those living in the main building. Rent for residents of the duplexes will include utilities, management and the cost of just one meal per day. Bob Goldsby, marketing director for Holiday, did not return phone calls seeking comment about the rent price ranges.

"It's not a care facility, but it will have on-site management," said Roach, who represents Holiday for Curry Architecture of Salem, Oregon. He said the Valrico complex also will have exercise and craft rooms, a chapel and outdoor walkways. "Thirty percent of the building will be common areas."

The 20-acre complex will be about three times larger than projects the company normally constructs, Roach said.

A rezoning request that would allow construction of the complex is scheduled to go before the Hillsborough County zoning hearing master Sept. 3 and is scheduled to go before the County Commission Oct. 21.

According to paperwork filed with the county, Curry Architecture is requesting one parking space for every two suites, because most residents won't drive and smaller parking lots will allow the builders to leave more open space.

Reporter Yvette C. Hammett can be reached at (813) 657-4532 or yhammett@tampatrib.com.

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