RIPA began construction on the Kirkland Ranch Academy project in August 2020. It is now completed and opened for the Fall 2022 school year. Kirkland Ranch Academy is located on over 50 acres in the Wesley Chapel/San Antonio area and is a Pasco County High School focusing on Career and Technical Education. This project included full site development and offsite improvements to Curley Road with traffic signal installation.
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In July 2020, ground broke at Project Harney; the future Amazon fulfillment center located off Harney Road and U.S. 301 in Temple Terrace, Florida. This project will be RIPA’s 5th Amazon project completed within the last several years. The scope of work includes earthwork, utilities, and roadways, in addition to a lift station and fiberglass wet well.
The Amazon Fulfillment Center was completed in October 2021.
Sumner High School is located at 10650 County Road 672 in Riverview, Florida. RIPA is excited to be a part of the civil and utility development on this project. The new school will be designed with more than 238,000 square feet and enrollment for close to 3,000 students. The school will cost an estimated $70 million to build and will be the biggest high school opened in the history of Hillsborough County Schools.
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Amazon’s Final Mile Distribution Center is in Sarasota County in Venice, Florida along Commerce Drive near Interstate 75, and Jacaranda Boulevard. Amazon calls it a Last Mile Distribution Center because it is the last stop between a fulfillment center and your house. This warehouse is a part of Amazon’s distribution strategy to keep up with fast-paced shipping.
The 120,000 square-foot fulfillment center is essential to Amazon’s strategy and will serve as the place where small quantities of product that are offered as “same day delivery or in high demand”. RIPA’s scope includes site excavation, import fill, concrete base, storm sewer pipe.
The Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus of Pasco County is in Wesley Chapel, Florida north of 2663 Lajuana Boulevard. The state-of-the-art 98,000+ square foot sports center will feature eight bio-cushioned hardwood regulation courts that can be utilized for various activities.
RIPA project scope includes pond excavation, sanitary force main, storm, water, reclaim, curbing and asphalt work on-site. The site will have over 130,000 cubic yards of site excavation, in addition to over 23,000 linear feet of pipe installed. A 13,000 linear feet of curb was installed in addition to 25,000 square yards of asphalt pavement.
Venice Woodlands is conveniently located 4.5 miles from the new RIPA office in North Venice, Florida. This project will be developed into 263 lot subdivision on the 151-acre site. Meritage Homes, the property owner contacted RIPA to fast track the project to completion.
Due to the heavy vegetation and high ground water this project was difficult on the front end. Venice Woodlands is the furthest south project for RIPA. This project supports the expansion of RIPA to opening the second office in the southern region
Cypress Mill is a master-planned community located in Ruskin, Florida. This fast track project included the installation of two lift stations with over one million CY of dirt moved, and over 7 miles of utilities were installed.
In addition, Cypress Mill had large scale off-site lane widening and two new traffic signals added to the entrance of the development. Lennar Homes is the land owner and Clearview Land Development is the engineer that RIPA worked with to complete the project on time and on budget
Aprile Farms is a mixed-use development site on approximately 36 acres of land. Located at U.S. 301 and I-4 in Hillsborough County, this project required the cooperation of many municipalities in order to get the project completed on time and budget. Utility work along U.S. 301 required coordination with the City of Tampa, Florida Department of Transportation and Hillsborough County, all of which owned or operated facilities on right of ways in the work area.
Difficult soil and groundwater conditions were cause for concern and dictated the earthwork operations. Due to the loading requirements of large industrial buildings, RIPA contracted Hayward Baker to perform soil improvements. RIPA is contracted under the GC, Conlan Company, and is expected to complete the project in June of 2019.
The 3rd Costco in the Tampa Bay area, RIPA was chosen for this high-profile project due to the quality work we perform. Located at the busy intersection of Linebaugh and Sheldon in the heart of Westchase, RIPA completed site development in 2016.
With the continued surging growth in Pasco County, school officials put into motion the building of several schools, including High School GGG. The initial plan estimated the overall project would be $85 million. RIPA will be involved in most phases of the infrastructure development of this new school that will help with the overcrowding problem in Pasco.
RIPA will: move 335,000CY of dirt, install 225,000SF of pond liners, install 34,000LF of underground utilities (which includes almost 5,000LF of roof/yard drains) and 210,000SF of concrete sidewalk. Asphalt paving totals are 65,000SY for drives and parking, and also includes the running track and field event surfaces and basketball courts.
