Tampa Bay Neighborhoods
Apollo Beach
Overview
Apollo Beach is well known for its boating, fishing and water activities. Apollo Beach FL is situated on the eastern shores of Tampa Bay on US 41. South of Tampa and north of Bradenton, development of Apollo Beach began as Tampa Beach as far back as the 1950's, by the consecutive owner, Francis Corr in 1957 and earned its permanent name, Apollo Beach, by Mr. Corr's wife, Dorothy, for its sunny shores.
Parks and Recreation
The quality of life here is one of a kind, from shopping, dining, and medical care all close to home in Apollo Beach. The Apollo Beach Nature Reserve offers visitors and inhabitants over 63 acres of fauna and pristine flora and creates a wonderful location for lovers of birds to watch birds. The Apollo Beach and Skate Parks gives the young and young at heart a place to play. The many golf courses, shopping centers, restaurants with different cuisine, alcould desire are all part of the area and add to the quality of life when living in Apollo Beach. You have absolutely little or no reason to go to the city, unless you either work, have business are looking for a night at the Opera or want to take in a Play at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Apollo Beach is popularly Known For the watery playgrounds of Tampa Bay, sunshine that lasts through the year which moderates temperatures and the Gulf of Mexico beyond, Apollo Beach offers the convenience of a planned and pristine community. Access to the water by everyone in the community makes Apollo Beach a perfect place to call home. Whether you travel daily to Tampa, Bradenton or one of the other communities in the Tampa Bay area, Apollo Beach is easily accessed while giving you the chance of living in a vibrant, and spontaneous growing community.
Living
Almost doubling in population between the 2000 and 2010 census, Apollo Beach has continued to enjoy successful growth, to date. With over 150% increase in the number of new homes that are less than five years old in the same period mirroring the pre-housing market bust. Although the price of homes did take a huge hike, they have stabilized back over the last 5 years. So, whatever your taste might be, from a villa, condominium, to single family home, on the water or off, the homes in Apollo Beach meet a scale to satisfy most home buyers, whether it's their first home or one selected for retirement, the inventory is large enough to suit most buyers. The kind of life that provides you with easy access to shopping and all of one's other needs with less stress can be found in Apollo Beach FL.
Culture
As a development that was concentrated and focused on waterfront living, Apollo Beach lives up to its name. There are lot of ways to have fun in the sun on the shores of Tampa Bay, which includes fishing, boating, sailing, water skiing and the bounties of the sea that adorn the tables of local restaurants. You can never get enough. Apollo Beach gives boaters the opportunity to go offshore and spend the day around Tampa Bay basking in the rays of the sun and enjoying the Florida lifestyle. The nearness or closeness to Tampa opens up all that it has to offer to residents of Apollo Beach and if ever residents get tired of things to do close to home, or get bored of the everyday routine, a trip to Busch Gardens, or Ybor City, where you will find fine foods and products from around the world, is a good idea to get away. Famously known as a state where tourism reigns, your home at Apollo Beach gives you a province in the guide to everything that Florida has to offers its residents and visitors.