There was a lot to like in the official celebration of the Tampa Jewish Community Center’s launching of its $26 million project to reincarnate Fort Homer Hesterly Armory–vacant for 11 years–into a new, multi-purpose community center by next fall. It will be known as the Bryan Glazer Family JCC, in honor of the Tampa Bay Bucs’ co-chairman who has pledged $4 million.
The center will be inclusive. The word “community” is as operative as “Jewish.” “It’s for not just the Jewish community,” noted Glazer, “it’s everybody. …It’s going to be a fabric of this area.”
What’s not to like–except, well–that weirdly-familiar architectural rendering. Surely, it’s not meant to look like a classic HoJo’s.