The Tampa Jewish Community Center is planning a 21,208-square-foot preschool at its Howard Avenue campus that could serve approximately 184 students, according to documents submitted to the City of Tampa.<\/p>\n
The Maureen and Douglas Cohn JCC Preschool would occupy existing space within the Shanna and Bryan Glazer JCC, the organization\u2019s 100,000-square-foot community campus at 522 N. Howard Ave. Plans also call for space to accommodate approximately 26 employees.<\/p>\n
At more than 21,000 square feet, the preschool would occupy roughly one-fifth of the facility.<\/p>\n
Plans call for converting existing office and retail<\/a> space within the Howard Avenue campus into classrooms and related educational facilities.<\/p>\n The Tampa JCC opened the Howard Avenue facility in 2016 after redeveloping the former Fort Homer Hesterly Armory into a community center. The campus includes fitness facilities, aquatics programming, recreation space, cultural programming and gathering areas used by members and community organizations throughout the Tampa Bay region.<\/p>\n Read the latest Tampa business news and updates<\/a><\/p>\n Enrollment plans, construction costs and timing were not disclosed.<\/p>\n The property is part of the former Fort Homer Hesterly Armory site, which the organization controls through a long-term ground lease with the Armory Board of the State of Florida.<\/p>\n Read More Tampa Bay Business News<\/p>\n \n Explore the latest Tampa Bay business<\/a> news, real estate<\/a> deals, development projects, executive moves and company updates shaping the region.\n <\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Jewish Community Center is planning a 21,208-square-foot preschool at its Howard Avenue campus that could serve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-294340","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\/294340","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=294340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}