Sign-Waving Protestors Out in Force in Bloomingdale

Residents were out in force May 7 on Bloomingdale Avenue, wavings hands and hand-made signs in protest to big-box retail development and apartments adjacent to the Bloomingale Regional Library.

Bloomingdale-Riverview Patch coverage of the "No Bloomingdale Big Box" community awareness event includes the following:

• Neighbors Rally Against Bloomingdale Big-Box Development

• Video Views From Big-Box Development Protest

The group known as Coordinated Active Neighborhoods Development Organization (CANDO) — and loosely known as "No Bloomingdale Big Box" — has been meeting frequently to spearhead community awareness and activism in response to development on land zoned for a 158,800-square-foot big-box store, 260 apartments and other commercial ventures.

The group is active on Facebook and on change.org, with a petition against the development that as of May 7 had realized 840 supporters.

Hillsborough County Commissioners have been invited to a public meeting on the issue, scheduled for May 14 at the The Palms Community Church, just west of Bloomingdale High School, at 1310 East Bloomingdale Avenue.

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RELATED COVERAGE:

• 'No Bloomingdale Big Box' Event Set for Rush-Hour Traffic (includes reader comments)

• Opposition Preps for Big-Box Development Protest

• Bloomingdale Residents Continue To Fight Big-Box Development (includes link to a petition that has garnered more than 830 signatures)
  

• Higginbotham Fields Big-Box Development Question (video and reader comments posted at Brandon Patch)

• Commissioner Answers Big-Box Development Question (video and comments posted at Bloomingdale-Riverview Patch)

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