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2. Ybor City - Wikipedia

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   Ybor City (/ ˈ iː b ɔːr / EE-bor) [2] is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.

3. El Pasaje - Wikipedia

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   It was originally built in 1886 to house the offices for Vicente Martinez Ybor's companies as he planned Ybor City and then ran his cigar factory and other businesses. El Pasaje has been home to many establishments since: a hotel, several restaurants, several bars and speakeasies, a military recruiting station, and newspaper offices, among ...

4. Gavino Gutierrez - Wikipedia

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   In a short amount of time, the new city grew to 10,000 people, and had numerous factories, restaurants, social clubs, hotels, stores, and homes. [2] Ybor City became a support center for the Cuban War of Independence in the late 1800s, and had thousands of men stationed in the city during the Spanish–American War, including Teddy Roosevelt's ...

5. Cityscape of Tampa, Florida - Wikipedia

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   Currently, Westshore has more than 11 million square feet (1,000,000 m 2) of commercial office space, 4,000 businesses with nearly 100,000 employees, 32 hotels, 2 major shopping malls (International Plaza and Bay Street and WestShore Plaza). The city of Tampa has 165 parks with 2,286 acres (9 km 2) within its borders. [1]

6. History of Ybor City - Wikipedia

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   Gavino Gutierrez. Ybor City came into existence as a direct result of a New York City businessman's failed search for guava trees. Spanish émigré Gavino Gutierrez was a civil engineer by training, but was employed by a New York City fruit packing and canning firm in the mid-1880s.

7. Helene flooding is 'catastrophic natural disaster' in Western NC

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   Other hotels downtown, like the Haywood Park Hotel, have no vacancies or running water. ... On Thursday night, a person was killed in a storm-related traffic fatality in Ybor City in Tampa, the ...