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METRO INCLUSIVE HEALTH, GROUNDBREAKING For Tampa Bay

Ground breaking ceremonies were held for the addition to the Ybor City’s historic German Club by the new ownership group Capitano Family, Metro Inclusive Health & CAN Community Health. The relocation will a major addition to the Ybor City development plan. The new location is at North Nebraska Ave still in the historic Ybor City boundaries. The plans that were shown to a group of over 200 people present. This is a major landmark that has been sitting vacant on Nebraska Ave for years since the Tampa City water dept and other depts. moved out.

At the podium cheering up the large enthusiastic crowd was new Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, Florida State Senator Darryl Rouson, Metro CEO Lorraine Langlois, Metro Director of Development James Keane, CAN CEO Rick Carlisle, Tampa City Councilman Guido Maniscalco and Frank & Joe Capitano from the Capitano Family.

The new facility will facilitate new examination rooms, doctors offices, case workers, administration personnel, pharmacy and new added medical facilities.Metro Inclusive have outgrown their facilities on 7th Ave.

“The large community room had to be converted into offices and hallways added desks for services. It was that tight. We had to do something.” stated Metro CEO Lorraine Langlois.

“The Metro facility takes HIV/AIDS patients but also now do primary care services that help both the insured community and uninsured medical clients.” remarked Metro Director of Development James Keane.

The multi million dollar model healthcare project should be ready for new patients by est. Fall 2021. But now the 1315 facility is still open for clients as is the other 3 quality health care locations in St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and on U.S.19 in New Port Richey.

We along with the Tampa Bay Community proudly salute METRO INCLUSIVE HEALTH & CAN COMMUNITY HEALTH’s future healthcare vision.

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GBAR St. Pete Closing

Mark & Carrie salute Steve, Steven & Erin for you continually do for the LGBTQ+ Community. See you at Honey Pot Ybor City.

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A Stranger in the Barrio: Memoir of a Tampa Sicilian

The diaspora of immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century brought Spaniards, Cubans and Sicilians to Tampa’s Ybor City, then the cigar capital of the world. These Latinos lived in a cigar-manufacturing district bordering “colored town.” Anglos, making no distinction, called them “Latin “N”.”It was the Sicilian constituency the author joined-a culture steeped in ancient customs and traditions. In the shade of cigar factories, the child of cigarmakers resurrects a vanished time and place. It is the story of cigarmaker lives, and a boy rolling with the punches while his family rolls cigars.Learn about casitas and shotgun homes. Experience austerity and illiteracy inside. Hear conversations that clench Franchito’s fists against the omnipresent Cubans. Sicilians are outnumbered-a minority among minorities. Walk into a cigar factory and see what cigar aficionados never see.”A masterful memoir-earthy and emotional-never a dull word in this fascinating story.”-Leland Hawes, The Tampa Tribune”Raw and unvarnished an autobiography that adds to our understanding of that remarkable place called Ybor City. A tale of urban decline, ethnic friction, and hope, it is a must read.”-Gary R. Mormino, Professor of History, University of South Florida

Meet the Real McCoy

Rumrunner Bill McCoy was born 1877 in Syracuse, NY. The most famous rumrunner during the early years of Prohibition, McCoy smuggled liquor from the Bahamas to the East Coast of the United States. The phrase “the real McCoy” is often attributed to him, because of his insistence on selling unadulterated alcohol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy_(bootlegger)

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