Extreme makeover for scenic hotel, beach bar

A Tampa Bay beachfront hotel property with a colorful history has changed hands. The new owners hope to change the target market, too.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. May 25, 2018
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Mark Wemple. The Best Western Bay Harbor Hotel in Tampa's Rocky Point district has been remade as The Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa.
Mark Wemple. The Best Western Bay Harbor Hotel in Tampa's Rocky Point district has been remade as The Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa.
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Unless you’re a member of the much-ballyhooed millennial generation, you probably remember the glory days of “Hulkamania” in the 1980s, when Tampa’s own Terry Bollea, a.k.a. Hulk Hogan, ruled what today is known as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

 

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