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Commissioners endorse Veterans Memorial Park master plan and ask staff to return with housing strategy
Summary
The board received a master-plan update for Veterans Memorial Park, including a proposed Collins museum, Gold Star and Buffalo Soldier memorials, a community resource center and conceptual veterans housing. Commissioners unanimously directed staff to return within 60 days with a recommended public–private partnership strategy for veteran housing.
The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners unanimously directed staff to return within 60 days with a recommended strategy to implement a residential housing concept included in the Veterans Memorial Park master plan update.
The presentation outlined completed and planned park projects, a proposed Collins Museum near the park entry, a Gold Star Family memorial and a Buffalo Soldier memorial, outdoor meditation gardens, a planned 150-foot flagpole, a community resource center and conceptual four-story veterans housing on 4.7 acres the county recently acquired…
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