For twenty years, the shorthand answer to "where should we meet in FishHawk" has been Park Square. The fountain, the amphitheater, the Osprey Club a short walk away, the 30,000 square feet of shops and offices behind it. That still works. What has changed this summer is that a second gravitational center has settled in along FishHawk Boulevard closer to FishHawk Crossing, and a third has appeared at the western edge of Lithia in the form of a groundbreaking. If you have lived here five or more years, the map you carry in your head is out of date by a few blocks.
None of this shows up in an HOA newsletter as a single story. It shows up as a supper club that opened last fall, a family restaurant no one is quite sure how to pronounce yet, a car wash with 1950s surf branding, a preserve trail closed for shelter work, and a builder sign at a site that was cow pasture the last time you drove past it. Together they are the summer.
The new anchor at 15260 FishHawk Boulevard
The most consequential opening is The Boulevard Supper Club at 15260 FishHawk Boulevard in Lithia, a new culinary destination in the heart of FishHawk Ranch positioned as a stylish yet family-friendly place to dine. The address matters less than the ownership. The Boulevard Supper Club is the latest venture from longtime local business owners Joel Granata, Jennifer Adamo, and business partner Elier Velasquez, the same team known in the community for their popular brunch and boutique spots, The Scrambled Egg and Posh Trading Company.
That lineage is the point. This is not a chain testing FishHawk as its next Tampa Bay pin. It is operators who already spend their weekdays inside the community expanding into a bigger evening room. Granata described the concept as an upscale dining experience in a destination restaurant where customers can feel at home without breaking the bank. Read that sentence twice. "Destination" is a word he chose. A destination restaurant sitting on FishHawk Boulevard is meant to pull traffic to itself, not lean on the Park Square draw.
What The Hawk and Woodie's tell you about FishHawk Crossing
A mile east, the FishHawk Crossing side of the boulevard has quietly assembled its own cluster. The Hawk, at 5614 FishHawk Crossing Boulevard in Lithia, is a locally owned and operated restaurant built around family-friendly food and hospitality. It is not trying to compete with a supper club. It is trying to be the Tuesday-night default when nobody wants to cook.
Around the corner, Woodie's Wash Shack opened at 15256 FishHawk Blvd, adding to the Hillsborough County market with more convenience for members in East Hillsborough. Woodie's is, in the developer's own words, strategically positioned to fill in some of the "holes" near the brand's Gibsonton, Dale Mabry, and Sun City locations. That sentence is worth translating. National and regional operators now treat FishHawk as a gap in their coverage rather than an outpost, which is a real shift from the era when Publix and a pizza place were the whole retail story.
The practical result for a resident is that the FishHawk Crossing end of the boulevard now supports a full errand loop without a left turn onto Lithia Pinecrest:
- Weeknight family dinner at The Hawk
- Car wash membership at Woodie's, 15256 FishHawk Blvd
- Fitness at Anytime Fitness inside Park Square
- Weekend dinner reservation at The Boulevard Supper Club at 15260 FishHawk Blvd
- Pizza pickup from Amici's inside Park Square at 16132 Churchview Drive
That loop did not exist eighteen months ago.
Park Square is still the town square, just the older one
None of this diminishes Park Square. Park Square Town Center is a two-story mixed-use building in the heart of the Fishhawk Ranch community, well suited for both office and ground floor retail uses. It is fully leased, with tenants including Anytime Fitness, Sidekicks Family Martial Arts, Amici's Pizza & Pasta, Cherry's Bar & Grill, Code Wiz, Fishhawk Family Counseling, and Fishhawk Oral & Facial Surgery. A fully leased plaza is a good problem to have.
But look at what Park Square does versus what the new cluster does. Park Square is the large open space that hosts community events such as concerts, movie nights, farmer's markets, and holiday festivities. It is where the community shows up as a community. It is not, and was never really meant to be, a Friday date-night room.
The old rule was that Park Square was where FishHawk gathered. The new rule is that Park Square is where FishHawk gathers, and the western boulevard is where it goes to dinner afterward.
If you are a resident deciding which end of the boulevard to introduce out-of-town guests to first, that is now a real question with two defensible answers.
The trail closure most residents have not seen the sign for
Summer changes are not only commercial. Beginning May 8, 2026, all shelters at FishHawk Creek Nature Preserve are being demolished and replaced with new, upgraded shelters, and sections of the Red Trail may be temporarily closed during this time. The preserve is a 3,286-acre site in southeastern Hillsborough County located along the riparian corridor of FishHawk Creek, a significant tributary of the Alafia River.
If your summer routine includes a Saturday walk on the Red Trail with the dog, plan around it. The county's plan is a full shelter replacement rather than a patch, which means the work is not a two-week job. The upside is that the picnic pavilions that were showing their age get rebuilt to a higher standard before hurricane season next year.
For a plain-English version of the closure and hours, the Hillsborough County FishHawk Creek Preserve page has the current status.
The Skyhawk sign at the edge of Lithia
A few miles west, a builder sign appeared this spring that will change the shape of the 33547 zip code over the next several years. In Lithia, ZIP 33547, in eastern Hillsborough County, Mattamy Homes, the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America, is developing Skyhawk, one of three Tampa Bay sites the company announced in January 2026 alongside Sun Bay Townes in Tampa and Amara Bay townhomes in St. Petersburg. Development was planned to begin in March 2026. The announced product is single-family homes of roughly 1,900 to 3,700 square feet on 50- and 60-foot homesites, with a planned central park, paved trail, dog park, tot lot, and picnic cabana.
Skyhawk is not inside FishHawk Ranch. It is a separate community on a 102-acre site with its own amenity plan. What it means for current residents is a near-term construction cadence to the west and a longer-term second wave of families rotating through the same schools and the same restaurants you already use. The neighborhood the Skyhawk buyers will drive to on a Friday night is the one whose gravity is now split between Park Square and the western boulevard cluster.
A summer road-project note worth watching
The county is also inching forward on the corridor most FishHawk residents use to get anywhere else. Hillsborough County's capital project page for the Lithia Pinecrest Road corridor improvements shows the Project Development and Environment study covering 7.5 miles from FishHawk Boulevard to Lumsden Road, plus a section of Bloomingdale Avenue, with the planning phase listed as complete in early 2026, and a current program estimate of about $245.8 million, including roughly $133.2 million for construction, though design and construction dates remain to be determined.
A completed planning phase is not the same as orange barrels. It is the checkpoint that lets the next set of dollars start moving. Worth noting in the same breath: the FishHawk Ranch HOA held a Board Workshop specifically on the road project on Friday, July 24, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. at the Palmetto Club, 17004 Dorman Road, followed by a Special Board Meeting. Meeting minutes are the fastest way to see what the board is asking the county for.
Reading the summer
Put the four pieces on one map and the pattern is legible.
| Where | What's new this summer | What it changes for you |
|---|---|---|
| 15260 FishHawk Blvd | Boulevard Supper Club, from the Scrambled Egg / Posh Trading team | A destination-tier dinner room inside the community |
| 5614 FishHawk Crossing Blvd | The Hawk, family restaurant | A weeknight default that isn't Park Square |
| 15256 FishHawk Blvd | Woodie's Wash Shack | Errand loop closes without leaving the boulevard |
| 16144 Churchview Dr | Park Square, fully leased | Community gathering role, not the dinner draw |
| FishHawk Creek Preserve | Shelter demolition and rebuild since May 8 | Red Trail sections intermittently closed |
| West edge of 33547 | Skyhawk groundbreaking, Mattamy Homes | Future demand on the same schools and boulevard |
The story is not that FishHawk got a few new businesses. The story is that the neighborhood is starting to behave like a small town with two ends and a shared middle rather than one master-planned campus with a single center. Park Square is the civic center. The western boulevard is the restaurant row. The preserve is the backyard, currently under construction. The Skyhawk parcel is the next chapter's front door.
If any of this reshapes how you think about your own house, either because your kids are heading to Newsome and you are thinking about downsizing, or because a friend keeps asking whether FishHawk is worth the drive from Tampa, the Brenda Wade Team has watched this boulevard rebuild itself in real time and is happy to walk through what it means for a specific address. Sell your home with a team that reads the street, not just the spreadsheet.
