Public-private partnership addresses affordable housing crisis in Tampa

The city of Tampa provided a developer with $12 million to build a 354-apartment community and ensured it remains available to low-income residents for the next 99 years.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. March 6, 2024
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A 354-unit affordable housing apartment complex is being built on the site of the former Fun-Lan Drive-in.
A 354-unit affordable housing apartment complex is being built on the site of the former Fun-Lan Drive-in.
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For more than 70 years, the piece of land at 2302 E. Hillsborough Ave. in Tampa was a place where people went to relax.

Starting in 1950, they came out for movies at a sprawling drive in theater that held up to 700 cars. Then, in the early 1980s, they began coming out to a flea market that set up shop during daylight hours before the screens came to life.

 

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