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It is hard to say which shines brighter—the University Area Community Center
Complex or the newly opened Bowers Whitley Career High School. Or perhaps it’s
Muller Elementary, a magnet school with a long waiting list of hopeful
enrollees, or University Park, an area teeming with wildlife that has returned
to make this area their home once again. And that is just the beginning.
The UACDC isn’t just a collection of buildings. It is a vision
for a brighter future that is made possible through daring to dream. Dreaming
led us to the recently opened Hillsborough County Service & Indigent Care
Clinic, now open to treat those in our community who can’t afford quality
health care. Soon, the Junior Achievement’s Enterprise Village will open, which
will serve as a training ground for renewed area economic development. This
live-work community philosophy will be further supported by the affordable
housing redevelopment initiatives to the east of 22nd Street,  as
well as in the revitalization of 22nd Street itself. 22nd Street will be
transformed into a parkway, complete with covered bus bays, pedestrian friendly
sidewalks and safe, well-lit streetscape.
It is this vision of the future that drives us. You can already
see where the vision has become a reality within the sprawling campus of the
UACDC to the east of 22nd Street. To the west lies only more potential that is
coming to life each and every day.
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