This Wednesday, the Hillsborough County Commission met with the Ybor City Roundtable Subcommittee to discuss the historic preservation of Latin Quarter’s most significant buildings: the Italian Club, the Cuban Club, La Union Marti-Maceo and Centro Asturiano.
With a sea of red t-shirts declaring, ‘Save Our Historic Buildings,’ the Ybor activists packed the room. After listening to the commissioners debate funding, the crowd erupted into cheers when the board unanimously voted 6-0 to allocate immediate funds of $2 million for the preservation, restoration and maintenance of these three buildings.
This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2011.