Video Views From Big-Box Development Protest

This series of videos were shot May 7 on Bloomingdale Avenue in Valrico, where residents lined up to raise awareness of their opposition to the proposed development adjacent to the Bloomingdale Regional Library, east of Bloomingdale High School and west of the Bloomingale Little League fields and the Campo Family YMCA.

Under the banner, "No Bloomingdale Big Box," the neighbors were protesting development on land zoned for a 158,000-square-foot big-box store, 260 apartments and other commercial space.

• See 'No Bloomingdale Big Box' Even Set for Rush-Hour Traffic Today (May 7)

• See Opposition Preps for Big-Box Development Protest

• See Bloomingdale Residents Continue To Fight Big-Box Development (includes link to a petition that has garnered more than 680 signatures)
  

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

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

The attached series of videos include the views of activist George Nieman and of Bloomingdale resident Eric Brosch, with Michelle Salerno, president of the Alafia Elementary School PTA. Also attached are views of card-carrying, hand-waving residents along the street, as motorists honk in awareness of them during rush-hour traffic.

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