City tearing down former grocery store to make way for senior center

Tampa has begun demolition of the Penny Saver Food Market as part of a plan to redevelop a nearby park.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 6:40 p.m. August 24, 2022
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Tampa has begun demolition of the Penny Saver Food Market as part of a plan to redevelop nearby park. (Courtesy photo)
Tampa has begun demolition of the Penny Saver Food Market as part of a plan to redevelop nearby park. (Courtesy photo)
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Tampa Mayor Jane Castor used a backhoe Wednesday to tear a chunk off of a former grocery story building and kickstart a demolition that will eventually bring a much-anticipated recreation complex to the city’s east end.

The building Castor ripped into is the former Penny Saver Food Market on North 34th Street next to Fair Oaks Park, which the city bought for $1.3 million in July.

 

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