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2 unusual facts about downtown Tampa


Carolina Topcats

Controversy ensued in November 2005 when two Topcats allegedly had sex with each other in a bar in the Channel District of Downtown Tampa, Florida.

Downtown Tampa

Mayor Pam Iorio has championed the building of a riverwalk downtown.


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.

Vicente Martinez Ybor

Vicente Martinez Ybor is buried in the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery section of Oaklawn Cemetery in downtown Tampa.


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2002 Tampa plane crash

The incident occurred when a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Charles J. Bishop, inspired by the September 11 attacks, stole a Cessna 172 and crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida.

Betty Reed

Betty Reed (born on May 5, 1941) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 61st District, which includes downtown Tampa in northern Hillsborough County, since 2012.

One Mack-Cali Center

The buildings main tenant, Raytheon, has kept the building 80 to 90 percent occupied despite vacancy problems in downtown Tampa.