Tampa Union Station Credit: c/o Tampa Bay Community Design Center
Things are changing at . The city’s 113-year-old landmark is in line for a facelift, and staging areas for passengers are being set up as you read this (the trains aren’t going to stop running, after all).
As WMNF News reported in January, the renovation at the hands of architect Jerel McCants is expected to wrap in early-2017 and includes new windows, bathrooms, and more. The work comes as the building, last renovated in the ’90s, was seeing signs of wear and tear from termite damage, water leaks. Everything is designed historically to maintain the building’s historic status.
With the project underway, the 50-year-old offers a behind the scenes hard hat tour timed with the arrival of Amtrak’s Floridian line from Miami.
Led by Brandie Miklus, President of the Friends of Tampa Union Station, along with the contractor Collage Company, the tour will be followed by an optional happy hour across the street at and —home of some of the best beer and burgers in the Bay.
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