One of the city’s long-stated goals has been to spur residential development in the downtown core, and the effort has been wildly successful.
Of course, all those people have to eat.
A pair of popular restaurants are demonstrating that the city center is a pretty good place to serve up food as well. Both Ulele, the brainchild of Columbia Restaurant proprietor Richard Gonzmart at Water Works Park in Tampa Heights, and Holy Hog Barbecue, which opened its fourth restaurant next to Tampa police headquarters, are celebrating their first anniversaries and relishing their new digs.