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2 unusual facts about Ybor City


Eugene Holtsinger

Holtsinger moved to Tampa in 1905 from Dandridge, Tennessee and joined fellow Tennessean Alfred Swann in the land-development business, constructing homes in Hyde Park, Tampa, Ridgewood Park, Tampa, Ybor City and West Tampa.

Zak Baney

He helped open up the popular Ybor City club Prana, mixing for some of the first goers of the club.


Carleth Keys

In 2000, after immigrating to the US, she wrote for a trilingual newspaper in Ybor City, Florida, called La Gaceta.

Experimental Skeleton

These flowering locations, such as Ybor City, simultaneously became attractive to developers.

The FCCA began by renting a space on the far north side of Franklin St. where it floundered under the debt it had inherited trying to survive in its Ybor City location.

Funkghost

After graduation from Bloomingdale High School in 1990, he began performing in and around Tampa's Ybor City commercial district with various bands/DJ's helping form the new and bourgeoning Hip-Hop scene in the Tampa Bay Area.

Spaghetti Warehouse

The Tampa store is located in the former tobacco storage warehouse of the Ybor Factory Building in the historic neighborhood of Ybor City.

Sweet Saraya

Knight made her first defense of the title at the SHINE 4 iPPV in Ybor City, Florida on October 19, defeating Jazz, and again at AAW in Berwyn on October 26, against MsChif.


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Experimental Skeleton

In 1996, The Florida Center for Contemporary Art (FCCA), a not-for-profit organization that once called Ybor City its home was struggling to reinvent itself in Downtown Tampa.

Experimental Skeleton was to have many small venues finally landing proper in Seminole Heights where Florida Ave. was quickly becoming the breeding ground for galleries, artist studios, and transplants from the old Ybor City days now making it happen again (notably places like Viva la Frida’ restaurant/gallery).

Ybor Factory Building

In 2010, the entire complex was purchased by the Church of Scientology, reportedly to consolidate a smaller location in Ybor City with another in West Tampa.