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The newly constructed Tampa Bay History Center is now set to open Jan. 17. (Up until last week, I'd heard December, but the History Center's PR person recently sent me the January date.)

This is not only exciting news for those of us who live in downtown Tampa and are glad to see the former void between Channelside and the St. Pete Times Forum fill with a cultural attraction, but for everyone in the Bay area, history buff or not.