Taps Restaurant Bar & Lounge at Ashley and Polk the Paddy Wagon Irish Pub at Tampa and Cass C.W.’s Gin Joint at Franklin and Twiggs and The Hub at Franklin and Polk. They include Tampa Pizza at Tampa and Zack Streets Kafee and Kabob at Tampa and Polk Butter’s Burgers at Ashley and Zack Eddie and Sam’s N.Y. Rents for a one-bedroom apartment are more than $2,000 a month.Ī restaurant or bar occupies just about every corner in the downtown core. The Skypoint, 33 floors, was built in 2007 The Element, 34 stories, in 2009 Nine15, with 23 stories, in 2016 and The Henry, 23 stories, opened in 2021 Like in the Channel District, many of the tenants of these buildings came from other parts of the country, still have their jobs and work remotely, and make high salaries. As happened in the Channel District to the east, apartment towers are popping up everywhere. Now, the street parking fees are $2.50 an hour and don’t end till midnight. One of the few places open at night was the legendary bar The Hub, which is still in business though not in its original location. At 5 o’clock, downtown workers drove home to the suburbs. “And then (in 1992) 100 North Tampa was built deliberately just two feet taller than Bank of America Plaza,’’ he says.ĭowntown Tampa used to be alive only in the daytime. He says the 42-story Bank of America Plaza, built in 1986, was the tallest in town. He tells them that the Tampa Theatre, built in 1926, was the first air-conditioned commercial building in the city.Īnd he also talks about the skyscraper boom that has characterized downtown since the turn of the 21st century but started in the 1980s. “It was the center of commercial and social life on Franklin Street back in its heyday in the 1940s and 50s,’’ Chaltry says. Kress building, with its elaborate Italian Renaissance Revival style facade. Woolworth’s, where in 1960 Black civil rights activists staged a protest sit-in at the segregated lunch counter. He takes the tour along the “five and dime” store block to the old F.W. He notes that the 19-story Floridan Hotel, built in 1926, was the tallest building in Florida until 1966. During the 90-minute, one-mile walk, he talks about old City Hall, mentioning that the clock in the 1915 structure is named Hortense. Chaltry leads monthly walking tours of downtown Tampa’s core as a Tampa Bay History Center guide.
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