cops, condos, and a guy with a really nice tan
jason permalink | categories: bayshore, city, development, election '06, law enforcement, tampaby jason @ 2:23 pm
Slow down there is a cop.. wait a sec is that a cop?
The TPD is getting new cars. I saw the first one a few weeks back on I-275 and today I saw another on Dale Mabry. You aren’t going to be able to miss them, the problem is they look like some of the cheesier security company cars out there. The new cars are white with large black block letters reading POLICE on the sides and back, remember to drive within the speed limit or you might get to see one of them up close.
Hey that tower is not on Bayshore!
If you have driven down Bayshore in the past year you have been watching the construction of the “Alagon” condo tower. If you have thought, “Gee they are building another condo tower on Bayshore” you were sorely mistaken! That tower is clearly not on Bayshore, as evidenced by the construction now taking place in front of it. What I at first took to be a parking garage of some type is in fact a row of townhouses (yes smarty pants I suppose I would have known that if I had read the Times). The story I heard is that the developer couldn’t get approval for another tower right on Bayshore so they came up with the idea of sitting the tower back enough that they could say it wasn’t “on” Bayshore and put a row of three enormous townhomes in front. Maybe that was enough to satisfy the City council but you can bet the Toni Everett Company won’t advertise the condos as being, “near Bayshore” but instead they will certainly make sure you know they are ON Bayshore.
Charlie Crist has a shop on Dale Mabry
A few weeks ago I was going north on Dale Mabry and noticed a sign in front of a row of shops somewhere near Neptune. The sign appears to be advertising space for lease in the building but the owners have put a Charlie Crist banner on it that is so big it obscures the sign. My question, and it is really kind of inane so don’t get your hopes up; is the donation of the sign space, which has some monetary value, a violation of campaign finance laws? I wouldn’t have thought about it except for reading this which indicates that, at least in a Federal campaign, it may be illegal. If anybody has a clue about this please let us know, I will pay you $3 for your answer.
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