Jackson House Foundation, Inc. — Attraction in Tampa

My one star review is for the greed of the city developers and government not the historical meaningful property.

Can't believe what the city is doing with their greed. This property first and foremost belongs to Tampa's Black Community. Now all these decades it gets in further disarray the city could have fixed it then and now they'd wish to demolish it to make way for more ultra luxury apartments.

The city of tampa truly does not care building Black centric areas and zones on the bones of their descendants screams volumes.

If this house gets demolished it should become a safe zone for the Black Community a community park or garden in the honor of Tampa's Black History.

As an Arab and Pakistani I stand with them so much knowing what these people endured you can't erase history you can't erase the suffering you can move forward but you can't erase the past....

Bubba tried to restore this landmark. In fact, he had contractors lined up and the sale contract completed. In the final hours before signing, the city and Bob buckhorn, tampas mayor, decided that black people do not deserve a pro bono law office (on 2nd floor) and restoration of the historical house. In fact, they would rather it fall in and be destroyed. So the city imposed heavy fines and prevented the restoration which forced the naacp and Bubba...

This is so awesome how can we help have this place restored. I wanted to edit this cause a lot of people might not know this is where a lot of famous black people had to stay in Tampa Ray Charles and Manny others it was one of the safest places in Tampa at the time for African Americas .google about it ....