The story
The Tampa Tribune moved to a new plant on Parker Street in 1975, and its headquarters was at 202 South Parker. Daily publication had begun in 1895 under Wallace Stovall. In 1927 John Stewart Bryan and Samuel Emory Thomason bought it for $900,000, and in 1958 the paper took over the struggling Tampa Daily Times. It won a 1966 Pulitzer Prize for local investigative reporting. Media General owned it from 1969 until 2012, when Tampa Media Group bought it.
On May 3, 2016, the Tampa Bay Times announced it had acquired the Tribune and would combine the two operations, which ended the Tribune as a separate paper. The Tribune name lived on as a Times neighborhood news section. An August 2017 article on the groundbreaking said Manor Riverwalk, 400 luxury apartments, would be built on the site of the old Tribune building on South Parker Street.
What's There Now
Manor Riverwalk apartments were announced for the site on South Parker Street.
Everything that was here
- 1975–2016
Tampa Tribune Building (Parker Street plant)Office Building
The Tribune moved here in 1975, lost its paper to the Tampa Bay Times in 2016, and the riverfront plant became 400 apartments.
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