Hub at Lexington Oaks Wesley Chapel: October Evening Preview

By late August, one local outlet reported that the last empty storefront at the Hub at Lexington Oaks had found a tenant. Most of the businesses that opened first were daytime stops: a barbershop, a nail salon, a pet supply store, a breakfast café and a cinnamon roll bakery. The tenants meant to hold the center after dark include a self-pour taproom, a 300-seat sports bar and a monthly night market, and those are arriving now, in October 2026.

The difference shows if you have spent time on Halter Loop this year. The center was promoted from the start as a place to gather, and its six buildings, 40,000 square feet and nine shade-providing artificial trees were designed with that in mind. The leasing finished before the evening schedule did.

The order the doors opened

Center Connect Development, run by siblings Courtney Bissett-Hayes and Paul Bissett, first brought the project forward in November 2023. The plan was a six-building "experiential dining & entertainment" center at Wesley Chapel Blvd. and Lexington Oaks Blvd., in front of the Sentosa apartments. The same team built the Hub at Bexley, a 44,000-square-foot retail village that opened in Land O'Lakes in 2022. Their tagline for the Wesley Chapel center is "Sip, Savor and Socialize."

Here is how the tenants actually arrived:

The top two-thirds of that table is mostly services and daytime food. Farmer's Milk, the final opening of the summer, runs an all-day breakfast menu built around syrniki, a Ukrainian farmer's-cheese pancake. It is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Hummus Republic is a build-your-own bowl and pita counter. Owners Annu and Ashish Kumar opened it as a franchise of a California chain that has more than 50 locations in 17 states.

Bonchon carried the evenings alone for most of the summer

From May through September, the one tenant fully set up for a night out was Bonchon. Other Tampa Bay diners may know the brand from its fast-casual counter on East Fletcher Avenue. The Wesley Chapel restaurant was built as a sit-down concept instead, with table service, a dining room of about 70 seats, an outdoor patio and a full bar. Reported menu items include soju and sake alongside the double-fried wings, bulgogi, japchae and tteokbokki.

The other tenants that lean toward evenings opened partway there. In May, The Clubhouse did not yet have its beer and wine license. Co-owner Tyler Ward said it was "coming very soon," and in the meantime guests could bring their own beer and food. He and his brother Mark, both Wesley Chapel High graduates, said more than 200 people had tried the simulators in the first couple of weeks. La Creación Bistro serves Puerto Rican and Latin-inspired breakfast, lunch and dinner with a strong brunch focus, and a full cocktail bar was expected to follow as operations ramped up. This sit-down bistro is a separate menu from La Creación Express, its sister counter inside KRATE.

In May, Neighborhood News expected a Grand Opening sometime in September, along with events featuring live music under the artificial trees. We found no published report that the September grand opening took place, so the date of the official celebration is still an open question.

What October adds after 5 p.m.

Three additions this month change the center's late-day schedule, and each one adds something the Hub did not have before.

The Friday Moonlight Market. Florida Penguin Productions, which also runs the Harvest Markets at The Grove, lists a Friday Moonlight Market at the Hub on third Fridays from 5 to 9 p.m. Its listing says the series launched with a grand opening on Sept. 18 and is looking for "night-friendly vendors." On the October calendar, the third Friday is Oct. 16. One ticketing listing gives a different cadence of first and third Fridays, so check the market's Facebook event before you plan around a particular week.

A taproom and an ice cream counter sharing one room. Urban Crunch Creamery Cafe expects a mid-October grand opening at 26935 Halter Loop. It started as a family ice cream truck business in 2021, and this will be its third storefront, after Odessa and the Hub at Bexley. It is sharing the space with Brew Bar Self Pour. Brew Bar's self-serve taps let you pour beer, wine and frozen drinks like daiquiris by the ounce, a format it already runs at KRATE. The pairing serves an after-dinner family dessert stop and an adult tasting flight from the same room.

The center's largest dining room. Tampa Joe's is putting the finishing touches on an approximately 5,000-square-foot restaurant at 26951 Halter Loop. It will seat around 300 people and have an outdoor patio, a large video wall and televisions throughout. No opening date had been announced as of Oct. 5.

The biggest space has a short history of its own

Tampa Joe's is coming to Wesley Chapel from Westchase. Its Anderson Road restaurant near AMC Veterans 24 operated for 10 years before closing March 2. Owner Mike Goodwin, who also runs O'Brien's Irish Pub & Grill in Carrollwood, said the property had been sold and he was pursuing other locations. That old location had hosted bike nights, classic car shows and big-game watch parties. Later in March, plan review paperwork placed a new Tampa Joe's at 26951 Halter Loop. Its Tampa menu was known for wings, pizzas, flatbreads, a Tampa Joe's Cuban and a fried grouper sandwich.

That same address first showed up in 2025 plan review documents as a second location for The Landing Bar & Grill, the sports bar in Valrico's River Hills Plaza. A July 2026 local post still listed The Landing as a Hub tenant, with a 4,528-square-foot footprint and an opening expected in the second half of the year. We have not seen a public update that settles where The Landing stands now. What is clear is that the center's biggest space has been planned as a sports bar since the first filings, and the restaurant now finishing that build-out is Tampa Joe's.

Some other names announced in spring have not posted opening dates. Saigon Pho, from the team behind Banh Mi & Boba at the Hub at Bexley, was hoping to open sometime in July. Island Grill and The Monk's Indian Fusion Cuisine also appeared on the May list of tenants still to come. Treat those three as announced, not scheduled.

An October around the Hub, by date

This month the Hub's new evening events share the calendar with the established weekend markets and the fall festival at The Grove on Wesley Grove Blvd.:

• Sunday, Oct. 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Harvest Market at The Grove and KRATE on Wesley Grove Blvd. The series runs second and fourth Sundays from September 2026 through May 2027.
• Mid-October. Urban Crunch Creamery Cafe and Brew Bar Self Pour target their opening at 26935 Halter Loop.
• Friday, Oct. 16, 5 to 9 p.m. Friday Moonlight Market at the Hub, 26967 Halter Loop.
• Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 22 to 25. Wesley Chapel Fall Festival at The Grove, held with the North Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Hours vary by day.
• Sunday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Harvest Market at The Grove, on the final day of the Fall Festival.

If you are driving an electric car to any of these, Suncoast Charging lists four Tesla Superchargers at the Hub at Lexington Oaks. They deliver up to 325 kW and are open 24 hours.

At the Hannon Team, we keep track of openings like these on Halter Loop because they shape how the communities around Wesley Chapel Blvd. feel day to day, from Epperson to Esplanade at Wiregrass Ranch. If you would like to talk through how the new evening options near the Hub fit into your plans for your home, Aquamarine Real Estate is happy to help. Schedule Your Complimentary Consultation.