{"id":190945,"date":"2026-03-14T01:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190945\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:29:32","slug":"spring-hard-hat-tour-offers-insider-look-at-tampa-union-station-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190945\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring hard hat tour offers insider look at Tampa Union Station renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ExteriorTampa Union Station Credit: c\/o Tampa Bay Community Design Center<\/p>\n

Things are changing at . The city\u2019s 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\u2019t going to stop running, after all).<\/p>\n

As WMNF News<\/a> reported in January, the renovation at the hands of architect Jerel McCants<\/a> is expected to wrap in early-2017 and includes new windows, bathrooms, and more. The work comes as the building, last renovated in the \u201990s, was seeing signs of wear and tear from termite damage, water leaks. Everything is designed historically to maintain the building\u2019s historic status.<\/p>\n

With the project underway, the 50-year-old offers a behind the scenes hard hat tour timed with the arrival of Amtrak\u2019s Floridian line from Miami.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014home of some of the best beer and burgers in the Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Union Station Credit: c\/o Tampa Bay Community Design Center Things are changing at . The city\u2019s 113-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-190945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}