Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Watch

We homeowners in Hyde Park, Oscawana, SOHO, and surrounding areas are fed up. The lack of control over these club owners and the outrageous amounts of police attention is making this tax base VERY uncomfortable.
Why are our tax dollars being spent to secure these establishments? Tommy Ortiz and his minion have no respect for our neighborhoods. They have exploited our community without anyone stopping them.

There needs to be a commission looking closely at their proposed new club at Bahasa and where Cheap is located.
Our community does not needs ANYMORE drug dens! Very fine establishments have been thrown out of these buildings to be replaced with businesses that cater to drug use and police problems.


Our mayor, a trusted elected official NEEDS to get this abuse under control. We have already witnessed how the club industry destroyed YBOR City and now they have done it to SOHO with impunity.

I love this City but shutter at the thought of the mismanagement of city resources to accommodate businesses owners like Tommy Ortiz, Chris Scott and Frank Kane. Historical Bungalows with asbestos problems where removed without the proper permits or licensed asbestos removers just to be made into a Paid parking lot located at 304 S. Moody Ave. This was a RM-24 zoning which does not permit the property to be used as a parking lot for their NEW Nightclub!

309 S. Howard Ave has faulty pluming, electrical and NO HANDICAP accommodations, yet they are allowed to operate a restaurant.

OUTRAGEOUS that so many businesses have to follow the rules imposed by you elected officials, but these CLUB OWNERS don?’t.

While the city continues to turn a blinds eye to these problems, the media and the neighborhood homeowner associations are not. WE WANT THESE PUBLIC NUSIANCE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THESE CLUB OWNERS TO STOP. WE WANT OUR COMMUNITY SAFE FROM DRUG PROBLEMS AND THE POLICE PROBLEMS TO STOP!

Okay, first of all... you may "LOVEEE" tampa.... but you must have not lived here very long... or you didn't do your research. Be careful before trashing names you know nothing about. You wouldn't have the nice little SOHO home you have now if it wasn't for Frank Kane and owners like him. 20 years ago Hyde Park as you know it was ALL prostitutes and drug lords. The buildings that stand now were burned, trashed, and attracted the worst of people. Owners like Frank Kane and the Versaggi's turned that entire neighborhood around. Your kids wouldn't be safe, you home wouldn't be so valuable, etc. Seriously, people of Tampa. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Getting wet zoning, more retail/commercial developement only raises the value of existed establishments and the over all income of Tampanians as a whole. If you want a suburb, move to New Tampa! Tampa is now on the map and is only getting bigger and better. Contribute, appreciate or GET OUT!!!