TAMPA — After years of its structural condition and future prospects going from bad to worse, there is hope for Tampa’s historic Jackson House.
Over the past year and a half, owner Willie Robinson Jr. has deeded the storied rooming house to a nonprofit group, the Jackson House Foundation.
A local firm, Bracken Engineering, has donated the time and expertise to design a plan to shore up the ramshackle, wood-frame house. That, supporters hope, can buy enough time for them to raise money for a larger renovation and repair job. A contractor, R.W. Tymewell, has signed on to do the stabilization.
And the Tampa Bay Lightning have given $50,000 to help save the two-story building on E Zack Street.