Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Water Street Tampa’ Moniker


An Albatross of Confusion, Banality, Damaging Imagery


Instead of emphasizing one of Tampa’s many cultural assets, the name connotes the area’s longtime unaddressed drainage problems.  It doesn’t take a Hurricane Irma for nearby Bayshore Boulevard to flood. Steady rainstorms are sufficient to provide footage of stranded automobiles on the 5 o’clock news.  Those images are viewed by tourists, conventioneers and occasionally on nationwide feeds.
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By Jim Bleyer - Tampa Bay Beat

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