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Masonite International Corp., a Tampa-based door manufacturer, shares a bit of history with Malio's, the city's iconic steakhouse. Soon they will be neighbors again downtown, a few blocks apart.
Masonite is in the process of moving into its new 35,000-square-foot world headquarters in the Tampa City Center office tower, where the company signed a lease last summer. The company has marked March 28 as its date of occupancy.
“It's a good change for us,” Masonite CIO John Przedpelski tells Coffee Talk. “It's going to be a nice facility upgrade for us.”
The company has been based at the Tampa Commons building for several years, but looked at relocating long before now.
It seems Masonite had a deal in place to build its own offices on a nearby site along South Dale Mabry Highway south of Kennedy Boulevard where Malio's, a popular hangout for sports figures and other celebrities, operated for 35 years until 2005. But then an investment firm bought the company and scuttled those plans a few months later — after the restaurant was already demolished and cleared.
Malio's reopened a few years later at Rivergate Tower, just a few blocks from Tampa City Center, and continues to do well with its prime spot adjacent to Curtis Hixon Riverfront Park. Meanwhile, its original two-acre site remains vacant and is still for sale.
Anyone involved with the previous deal is no longer associated with Masonite, Przedpelski says.
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