Suwannee shelter awarded $38M

Columbia receives $6M for Mega Site rail, shelter hardening; Lake City, Live Oak also obtain state funding.

The Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus in Pasco County is a 98,000-square-foot facility originally built as a regional shelter. Suwannee County has been selected as the host of a shelter for North Florida. (COURTESY FLORIDA SPORTS COAST)
The Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus in Pasco County is a 98,000-square-foot facility originally built as a regional shelter. Suwannee County has been selected as the host of a shelter for North Florida. (COURTESY FLORIDA SPORTS COAST)

Eighteen months after landing Project Summit, Suwannee County received the funding to make the regional storm shelter a reality.

During a press conference Thursday in Sebring to award $311 million towa…