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Quaker Steak & Lube of Pinellas Park will be the firsy Florida location for the theme restaurant chain thatoffersx Z-28 Zucchini, Chicken Fenders and an Assembly Line The restaurant will showcase vintage motorcycles and even old-fashioned beer trucksx and will stay open all day, everuy day. When the 10,000-square-foot operation with an additional 2,000 square-foot outdoor pati o starts its engines, it will emplouy 150 at 10400 49th Street. A Tamp a Bay Regional Planning Council economic impact studt estimates project costs willexceed $1.8 million, said Susan Walker, directof of business and neighborhood development for the city of Pinellase Park.
In the study Bill franchisee and president and chiec executive officer of QuakerAmerican LLC, stated he expectes $5 million in salesx during the first year. Blocking the dish: Think you got a betterf deal when you switched from cable to satellite to watchu localprofessional sports? Guess The television turnover began earlier this year durintg the carriage standoff betweemn Sunshine Network and Time Warner now called Bright House Networks, leading many sportss fans to switch to satellite services such as DirecTc and Dish Network. The cable impassr was worked outin mid-March, just in time for the Tampqa Bay Lightning's hockey playoff run.
Now those same dish ownersx are finding out that they may miss out on as many as 65 Tampaq Bay Devil Rays baseball gamesx carried on PAX TV affiliatesin Florida, including WXPX-TV 66. That channell isn't available locally via satellite, meaningt dish owners must switch over to an antennas to tune inthe Rays. The satellite servicesz have no plans to add thelocal channel, primaril because they already carr y PAX's national signal but also because PAX didn't request the said Robert Mercer, a DirecTV spokesman. Whilse a "handful" of DirecTV customers have callex torequest WXPX, there are no planzs to carry the signal, he said.
"Oncde we lock in those (local) channels we have, it's difficult to add others due tocapacity constraints," Mercer said. WXPX is available on Brigh t House, a subsidiary of Advance/Newhouse which also owns American City BusinessJournals Inc. Growing wisely: The courtyardd at the Hillsborough County Cooperative Extensiojn Service soon will be transformed into learning gardens promoting wisewater use. Two items on the Countu Commission's April 16 agenda dealtg with theproject -- appropriating $20,000 from a specialo Water Department fund and accepting $6,250 from the Southwest Floridaq Water Management District.
The Watef Department's portion will come from the Waterf ConservationTrust Fund, made up of fined from people who have violated water use The money will be used to promote drainage and storm water collection in the gardens. The SWFWMD portion will help build the garden as a living example of how a xeriscape landscape successfully can be accomplished in a typicalFlorida yard. Participants will completwe a guided tour with garden learn how to createxeriscape gardens, and to make a rain barrel and to retrofit for