{"id":378520,"date":"2026-08-22T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378520\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:34:06","slug":"tampa-converting-howard-avenue-building-into-forensics-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378520\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa converting Howard Avenue building into forensics complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 22, 2026 &#8211; The City of Tampa and the Tampa Police Department are converting the Howard Avenue Annex building into a state-of-the-art complex for the department&#8217;s Forensics Investigations Unit and Evidence Section. Additionally, the site will include an impound lot. According to a prepared statement, the project is expected to be completed by May 2028. The effort &#8220;centers on the adaptive reuse and renovation of the roughly 38,000-square-foot warehouse, paired with a 7,300-square-foot expansion.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 22, 2026 &#8211; The City of Tampa and the Tampa Police Department are converting the Howard Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-378520","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\/378520","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=378520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}