Encore Project Still Just A Vision In Central Park Area

03.17.09 | The Tampa Tribune

TAMPA - Sydel LeGrande watched the businesses along Nebraska Avenue shut down after the Tampa Housing Authority moved more than 1,300 people out of Central Park Village.

They went one by one - barbershops, drugstores. "Even the Church's Chicken closed," she said.

LeGrande and her husband, George, opened their medical and fitness center in the Tampa Park Plaza last year with the hope of serving the mixed-income development that the housing authority planned...

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