Looks like the city has started neighborhood pages online. Here's the one so far for Tampa Heights. Includes a map, contact info, demographic info and a lot of other data that looks like it will come soon but is not yet posted (crime, city council districts etc).
I hope they keep this up and bring it up to speed. Could be a handy resource.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Questions from a Tampa Heights resident
From Tampa Heights resident and WFTS news anchor, Brendan McLaughlin, submitted via email:I noticed the two adjacent lots on the 300 block of East Ross between Jefferson and Morgan are no longer sporting a "For Sale" sign. I've heard from neighbors that a single buyer has purchased both lots and intends to put up a single (presumably large) single family home. Anybody have hard information? I'd also be interested in knowing what's in store for Lee's Grocery on Central Avenue (no pun intended) now that the building is reportedly under new management.
I know the couple who purchased the Lee's Grocery and the adjacent property. I can ask them specifically what their plans are. If I recall correctly, the rental property is being rehabbed and will in fact be rented out, and they are also looking for a potential renter for the grocery space. I'm not 100% on that though. Give me a few days.
TAMPA RIVERWALK TO RECEIVE $2 MILLION IN STATE FUNDING
The Tampa Heights Civic Association sent this bit in their latest newsletter:
We are pleased to inform you that The Tampa Riverwalk was granted $2 million in funding from the State of Florida when Gov. Crist signed the FY08 State budget last week. This is an exciting moment and a great step forward for the Riverwalk. The earmark will supplement the construction funding of the History Center Riverwalk segment and fund the design of Kennedy Plaza, the over water connection between Curtis Hixon Park and the Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel. Please share this wonderful news with your respective groups that you each represent. Thank you for your continued support of The Tampa Riverwalk!
For more information, visit tampariverwalk.net
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Where ya at, Tampa Heights?
To quote David from the Seminole Heights blog, I'm in need of your "Events. Activities. Commentary. Photos. Stories. Tell us about your remodeling of your house. Issues you deal with in your daily life here. Cool things you see. The pleasures you find."
Anything at all Tampa Heights related.
You can send whatever you like here. If it is appropriate, I'll put it up. If anyone is really interested in writing, I'm also totally open to operating this blog by a team.
Anything at all Tampa Heights related.
You can send whatever you like here. If it is appropriate, I'll put it up. If anyone is really interested in writing, I'm also totally open to operating this blog by a team.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Bleu Acier opening: New Editions
NEW EDITIONS
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 15, 2007, 6-9 PM
June 15 through July 31, 2007
INTRODUCTION BY ERIKA SCHNEIDER AT 7PM
OPEN ATELIER VISIT WITH PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS:
Saturdays June 16th and 30th at 2 PM
June 16th Relief Printing with Dominique Labauvie
June 30th Monotype with Debra Jo Radke
Reservations required 813. 272. 9746/ each will be limited to 15 visitors
Bleu Acier is proud to present their new fine art print editions published during 2006 and 2007. For many of the artists - accustomed to working in other media from painting to video - this was their first print project, and first invitation to work on prints at a professional press. This collaborative exploration of new materials combined with the experience of a master printmaker produced a striking range of works.The painters Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, Kim Curtis, Pierre Mabille, Steve McClure, and Judith Sturm each worked on their first series of monotypes. Monotype, which signifies a unique work (not an edition or a multiple) is a combination of painting or drawing and printing. The artist works directly on the surface with printing inks. When the image is built to desired effect, it is run through the press as either a single pass, or a series of "built" layers or multiple passes. Printmaking allows a quality of layers, surfaces and color combinations not found in painting.Neil Bender works on one-run images and then manipulates them after printing. Elisabeth Condon transforms space and the surfaces of her landscapes and abstract compositions through her intense layering technique. Kim Curtis found equivalents to the editing process she uses in her oil paintings, and Judith Sturm developed a much freer manner of image making through the monotype. Pierre Mabille's conceptually minimal approach to building space grew even more refined within the monotype process.For the artists Hervé DiRosa, Steve McClure and Vicky Colombet, the idea of collaborating remotely from their respective locales in Miami and New York generated an interest in direct gravure. Direct gravure uses a drawing on mylar made by the artist which is then transferred to a copper plate using the photogravure process. This process generates images that utilize similar marking techniques found within other aspects of the artists' work. The advantage of direct gravure is it allows artists to work wherever they are and send the mylar to the shop to be processed. Often the plates are continued by hand when the artist can visit the shop.
Marie Yoho Dorsey uses direct gravure as a starting point for her unique images which she embellishes with drawing and embroidery.DiRosa's triptych of the Miami urbanscape has the rich qualities of his ink drawings. Colombet's landscape offers a different spatial reading than that of her suspended pigment paintings. In Steve McClure's monotypes and gravures we discover a different spatial spontaneity than in
the paintings.
Dominique Labauvie, who utilizes the relief process for its ability to negotiate positive and negative space in a manner similar to his sculpture, combines woodcut imagery with monotype. Using monotype as the image "ground" allows him a freedom of mark-making that generates very rich and sensual surfaces akin to his pastel drawings.Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey chose to do a diptych of 3-color woodcuts based on their video "When I Look Up, I Fall Down," presented at the DiVA video fair in New York earlier this year. The artists interpreted video stills onto woodblocks, and ended up discarding the stills in order to be influenced by the direct marking possibilities on the wood. As with other parts of their oeuvre, their drawing space takes over the time-based space making for an interesting perception of movement.Bleu Acier is also pleased to include several guest artists in the show:
Tom Antista, a photographer and designer from Atlanta, Georgia, completed an impressive series of photogravures here at Bleu Acier. His boxed set of eleven portraits of New York is entitled "ELEVEN."Brian Reedy, an artist who lives and works in Miami and is represented by the Brook Dorsch Gallery of Miami will show his woodcut series entitled "Eleventh Hour." With these very stark linear woodcuts, each image is packed with social commentary and humor.Debra Radke, a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Tampa, has been working in monotype at Bleu Acier for the past year and has invented new layering systems for her work. The monotypes have a glowing quality that is very unique.
NEW EDITIONS:
Neil Bender
Vicky Colombet
Elisabeth Condon
Kim Curtis
Hervé DiRosa
Marie Yoho Dorsey
Rachel Hoffman
Dominique Labauvie
Pierre Mabille
Steve McClure
Judith Sturm
Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey
Guests:
Tom Antista
Debra Radke
Brian Reedy courtesy of Brook Dorsch
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1 – 5 PM and by appointment
For further information contact Erika Schneider
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602
TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 15, 2007, 6-9 PM
June 15 through July 31, 2007
INTRODUCTION BY ERIKA SCHNEIDER AT 7PM
OPEN ATELIER VISIT WITH PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS:
Saturdays June 16th and 30th at 2 PM
June 16th Relief Printing with Dominique Labauvie
June 30th Monotype with Debra Jo Radke
Reservations required 813. 272. 9746/ each will be limited to 15 visitors
Bleu Acier is proud to present their new fine art print editions published during 2006 and 2007. For many of the artists - accustomed to working in other media from painting to video - this was their first print project, and first invitation to work on prints at a professional press. This collaborative exploration of new materials combined with the experience of a master printmaker produced a striking range of works.The painters Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, Kim Curtis, Pierre Mabille, Steve McClure, and Judith Sturm each worked on their first series of monotypes. Monotype, which signifies a unique work (not an edition or a multiple) is a combination of painting or drawing and printing. The artist works directly on the surface with printing inks. When the image is built to desired effect, it is run through the press as either a single pass, or a series of "built" layers or multiple passes. Printmaking allows a quality of layers, surfaces and color combinations not found in painting.Neil Bender works on one-run images and then manipulates them after printing. Elisabeth Condon transforms space and the surfaces of her landscapes and abstract compositions through her intense layering technique. Kim Curtis found equivalents to the editing process she uses in her oil paintings, and Judith Sturm developed a much freer manner of image making through the monotype. Pierre Mabille's conceptually minimal approach to building space grew even more refined within the monotype process.For the artists Hervé DiRosa, Steve McClure and Vicky Colombet, the idea of collaborating remotely from their respective locales in Miami and New York generated an interest in direct gravure. Direct gravure uses a drawing on mylar made by the artist which is then transferred to a copper plate using the photogravure process. This process generates images that utilize similar marking techniques found within other aspects of the artists' work. The advantage of direct gravure is it allows artists to work wherever they are and send the mylar to the shop to be processed. Often the plates are continued by hand when the artist can visit the shop.
Marie Yoho Dorsey uses direct gravure as a starting point for her unique images which she embellishes with drawing and embroidery.DiRosa's triptych of the Miami urbanscape has the rich qualities of his ink drawings. Colombet's landscape offers a different spatial reading than that of her suspended pigment paintings. In Steve McClure's monotypes and gravures we discover a different spatial spontaneity than in
the paintings.
Dominique Labauvie, who utilizes the relief process for its ability to negotiate positive and negative space in a manner similar to his sculpture, combines woodcut imagery with monotype. Using monotype as the image "ground" allows him a freedom of mark-making that generates very rich and sensual surfaces akin to his pastel drawings.Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey chose to do a diptych of 3-color woodcuts based on their video "When I Look Up, I Fall Down," presented at the DiVA video fair in New York earlier this year. The artists interpreted video stills onto woodblocks, and ended up discarding the stills in order to be influenced by the direct marking possibilities on the wood. As with other parts of their oeuvre, their drawing space takes over the time-based space making for an interesting perception of movement.Bleu Acier is also pleased to include several guest artists in the show:
Tom Antista, a photographer and designer from Atlanta, Georgia, completed an impressive series of photogravures here at Bleu Acier. His boxed set of eleven portraits of New York is entitled "ELEVEN."Brian Reedy, an artist who lives and works in Miami and is represented by the Brook Dorsch Gallery of Miami will show his woodcut series entitled "Eleventh Hour." With these very stark linear woodcuts, each image is packed with social commentary and humor.Debra Radke, a painter and printmaker who lives and works in Tampa, has been working in monotype at Bleu Acier for the past year and has invented new layering systems for her work. The monotypes have a glowing quality that is very unique.
NEW EDITIONS:
Neil Bender
Vicky Colombet
Elisabeth Condon
Kim Curtis
Hervé DiRosa
Marie Yoho Dorsey
Rachel Hoffman
Dominique Labauvie
Pierre Mabille
Steve McClure
Judith Sturm
Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey
Guests:
Tom Antista
Debra Radke
Brian Reedy courtesy of Brook Dorsch
BLEU ACIER INC. is an active fine art print publisher, print atelier, gallery and live-in loft that functions at the intersection of private and public space where art and the city keep company. Bleu Acier exhibits works in all disciplines by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the U.S. and Europe.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1 – 5 PM and by appointment
For further information contact Erika Schneider
109 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33602
TEL/FAX: 813 272 9746 BLEUACIER.COM
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Central Tampa Trib - Life Not Updated Daily
In theory the neighborhood sections of the Tribune website are a great idea. Localized news coverage. Crime Tracker stats. Smaller stories that might not get a lot of play in an A or B section of the paper.
In execution though, it's been lousy.
Some time ago, the South and Central Tampa sections were going to be combined into one South Tampa Section which was to cover Davis and Harbor Islands, South Tampa, Hyde Park, Downtown, Riverside Heights,West Tampa, Seminole and Tampa Heights and basically everything around and between those areas. It was a horrible idea. Even more horrible to call it just South Tampa. Explain to me how Lowry Park is South Tampa?
Anyway, during this period it was near impossible to find anything online if it was from the Central Tampa area.
Looks like the bad old times are back again. The Trib has been retooling these pages and now half the links don't work, Crime Tracker appears to be totally gone and overall it's as useless as boobies on a bull.
This went on for a week and a half before I emailed Mother Trib. A week later I got an email saying they knew and they're working on it. A week after that it's still FUBAR.
Wouldn't you think they'd fix all this stuff and work all the kinks out - or at least a bulk of them BEFORE going live?
In other news, I posted pictures of the fence on Columbus/Tampa in my previous post. Anyone know anything here?
In execution though, it's been lousy.
Some time ago, the South and Central Tampa sections were going to be combined into one South Tampa Section which was to cover Davis and Harbor Islands, South Tampa, Hyde Park, Downtown, Riverside Heights,West Tampa, Seminole and Tampa Heights and basically everything around and between those areas. It was a horrible idea. Even more horrible to call it just South Tampa. Explain to me how Lowry Park is South Tampa?
Anyway, during this period it was near impossible to find anything online if it was from the Central Tampa area.
Looks like the bad old times are back again. The Trib has been retooling these pages and now half the links don't work, Crime Tracker appears to be totally gone and overall it's as useless as boobies on a bull.
This went on for a week and a half before I emailed Mother Trib. A week later I got an email saying they knew and they're working on it. A week after that it's still FUBAR.
Wouldn't you think they'd fix all this stuff and work all the kinks out - or at least a bulk of them BEFORE going live?
In other news, I posted pictures of the fence on Columbus/Tampa in my previous post. Anyone know anything here?
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Tampa Heights simulcast
Tommy Duncan over at Sticks of Fire has asked me to join a network of Tampa neighborhood blogs he's putting together, and he's given me the url of tampaheightstoday.com. It's going to take me some getting used to Word Press, but for now I'll be simulcasting all posts.
Illegal fence up at Columbus/Tampa?
I noticed as I was driving to work on Fri. morning that two guys were putting up an 8-ft black chain-link fence around the property on the corner of the 2600 block of N. Tampa St. I may be wrong, but I was pretty sure that that type of fencing was illegal in our neighborhood. A lot of those car lots on Florida and Tampa have fences grandfathered in, but this is new construction. It was an open lot prior to yesterday.
I'll try to snap a picture on my way into the theater today - butdoes anyone know if this is a code violation? In addition to being an eyesore, these fences are dangerous on corners as motorists typically cannot see around them.
This corner should be in the process of beautification, not taking a huge step backwards.
Anyone know anything about this?
UPDATE - A few photos. Click to enlarge:
I'll try to snap a picture on my way into the theater today - butdoes anyone know if this is a code violation? In addition to being an eyesore, these fences are dangerous on corners as motorists typically cannot see around them.
This corner should be in the process of beautification, not taking a huge step backwards.
Anyone know anything about this?
UPDATE - A few photos. Click to enlarge:
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