Hotel offers up retail therapy for beleaguered merchants

A waterfront resort in Tampa has made its banquet rooms available to shuttered brick-and-mortar businesses.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. November 27, 2020
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  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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The Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa — part of the Rocky Point resort property that used to house Hogan’s Beach, a Hulk Hogan-themed party bar — wants to help body-slam the economic hardship that local brick-and-mortar retailers are facing amid the COVID-19 crisis. 

 

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