TAMPA — Historic preservationists were furious in 2019 when the owners of West Tampa’s Santaella Cigar Factory chose to cover the exterior’s yellow bricks with white paint. City Council weighed in, too, discussing whether they should step in and force local historic landmark designation on the building, which would prevent the exterior from being modernized. The concern was that the paint job .
Following the losing battle to save the Great Northern grain elevators from demolition, Preservation Buffalo Niagara is focused on saving the Allied Mills grain elevator and is asking for the