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First on-campus Publix coming to USF in Tampa

The on-campus store will span 29,000 square feet.
The on-campus store will span 29,000 square feet.

Publix Super Markets Inc. won approval to build its first on-campus store at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

The Florida Board of Governors last week approved development of the 29,000-square-foot store on USF land at the intersection of Fletcher Avenue and North Palm Drive in Tampa.

Publix plans to  sign a 21-year ground lease, with options for six five-year extensions,  with the University of South Florida. Construction on the grocery store is expected to be finished by late 2017.

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Judy Genshaft, USF system president, said in  press release that when the university decided to replace a 1960s-vintage on-campus housing complex with a village-like development, the top request among students was for an on-campus grocery store.

The Publix grocery store will become an integral part of a $133  million development at USF called Student Housing Village. Its construction is expected to begin later this year.

USF is in a public-private partnership for the development of the Student Housing Village project with Capstone Development Partners LLC and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. [Tampa Bay Business Journal] — Mike Seemuth

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