The seventh annual Historic Hyde Park Home Tour is today, with some of the proceeds benefiting a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in the neighborhood. ...more

March 7, 2009

Fire that destroyed much of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Morrison Avenue might have done more good than harm, members say. Since the October 2007 fire, members of the Capt. Russell P. Harris/Rudy J. Santacruz VFW Post 4321 have focused on rehabilitating the building at 2010 W. Morrison Ave. Costs of construction work alone have exceeded the post's $268,000 settlement with its insurer. ...more

March 4, 2009

Jacqueline Caceres turned the corner of Rhode Island Drive and 76th Street and saw the hordes of TV news cameras, construction workers and politicians. ...more

January 28, 2009

Minutes later, the crowd clustered around Caceres as she turned the key to her new home, presented by the Warrick Dunn Foundation and Habitat For Humanity. "Words can't express how we feel right now," said Caceres, a single mother. "I can't thank you guys enough for everything that you've done for us. We are touched." ...more

January 27, 2009

Robin Knight shrieked when she saw Warrick Dunn. She howled again Tuesday afternoon when she stepped inside the new five-bedroom home presented to her by the Warrick Dunn Foundation and East Pasco Habitat for Humanity. ...more

December 10, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY Sarah Cooke thought she would be doing a walk-through of her new Habitat for Humanity home today -- until she saw the crowd of people in the driveway. She and her children, son Devin, 15, and daughter Lauren, 10, were greeted outside the home in the New Port Richey neighborhood of Moon Lake by Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Warrick Dunn. ...more

December 9, 2008

Jim Otterman likes to use kitchen appliances to describe economic development. ...more

July 13, 2008

Officials from Tampa and the local Catholic diocese dedicated an 80-unit apartment building Monday for low-income seniors whom Monsignor Laurence Higgins called "forgotten people." ...more

June 10, 2008

TAMPA - Officials from Tampa and the local Catholic diocese dedicated an 80-unit apartment building today for the low income seniors who Msgr. Laurence Higgins called "forgotten people". San Lorenzo Terrace was built on 8 acres owned by the Diocese of St. Petersburg with a $6.6 million federal grant and started accepting residents in January. It is expected to be full by the end of this month. ...more

June 9, 2008

It took a slow real estate market to put a thrift store benefiting the Hope Children's Home in a highly desirable location on Fowler Avenue. ...more

May 3, 2008