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Tampa drive-in theater site to make way for 354 affordable apartments

Work is set to officially kick off Tuesday on the affordable housing complex being built on the site of the former theater and flea market on Tampa's Hillsborough Avenue.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:30 p.m. February 26, 2024
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More than 350 affordable housing units will be built on the site of the former Fun-Lan Drive-in in Tampa.
More than 350 affordable housing units will be built on the site of the former Fun-Lan Drive-in in Tampa.
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Developers are scheduled to break ground on a new Tampa affordable housing development Tuesday on the site of the longtime home of a city drive-in.

The development is being built on the East Hillsborough Avenue plot where the Fun-Lan Drive-in movie theater stood for 71 years before it abruptly closed down December 2021.

Fun-Lan was a place where a generation of locals grew up spending weekend nights catching double features, first as kids, then with friends and, eventually, on date night. It was just a place that everyone knew and everyone went to at least once, it seemed.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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