Kelly HayesApril 20, 2021
8min1249
All of the historic buildings are in need of restoration.
Tag: Cuban Club
Kelly HayesApril 20, 2021
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 15, 2019
7min378
The Cuban Club is a labor of love, but its role in the community is bigger than culture alone.
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 14, 2019
4min456
La Gaceta Editor and Publisher Patrick Manteiga is asking lawmakers for $1.2 million to pay for repairs and renovations to the historic Cuban Club in Tampa’s Ybor City. State Rep. Susan Valdes is sponsoring an appropriations request. The funding would come from the Department of Economic Opportunity. Manteiga says the funding would be used to reduce water intrusion […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 27, 2017
2min217
Tampa Democrat Sean Shaw has submitted his first appropriations request for the 2017 Legislative Session. The freshman lawmaker is requesting $1 million for rehabbing the historic Cuban Club in Ybor City. According to the budget request, the facility has damaged structural support columns, beams and floor slabs on all four floors that would be removed and replaced in order to achieve the structural stability of […]
Mitch PerryMarch 5, 2016
3min214
Although early voting for the March 15 presidential primary began in Hillsborough County and other counties in Florida earlier this week, the process went statewide on Saturday, and the Hillary Clinton campaign seized on that development by sending high profile surrogates go to the polls. In the Tampa Bay area, that meant having Mayor Bob […]
Mitch PerryApril 16, 2015
5min166
For those of you out there less enamored by Florida’s reputation as the “Gunshine State,” there was some positive news out of Tallahassee Wednesday night. That proposal that would give school superintendents the ability to designate a school district employee or volunteer to carry a concealed weapon on a school campus was scheduled on the […]