Demolition of Tampa’s oldest public housing project began on Monday.
Why it matters: Robles Park Village has, for decades, housed thousands of families, and its demolition marks the start of an $800 million redevelopment that will provide housing for generations to come.
Catch up quick: The housing project opened in 1954 on land that, as the Tampa Bay Times revealed in 2019, was the city’s first African American burial ground…