A family-owned legacy project in East Tampa is moving forward after receiving a $5 million investment from the Community Redevelopment Agency, helping transform a long-held property into new housing for seniors and the local workforce.
The Legacy 34th Street mixed-use development will bring a four-story, 31-unit apartment building to a vacant lot — a level of density still relatively new for the historically Black community.
The project is rooted in the legacy of the late Lillian Williams Brown, a Tampa educator whose early investments in small properties laid the groundwork for what her family is now building.
“She would say that I’m not trying to get rich. I’m just trying to help someone,” said her daughter, Betoria Williams Watson.