There’s a lot to like about those plans for converting the historic Fort Homer Hesterly Armory building on North Howard Avenue into the Tampa Jewish Community Center. Most notable is the expected catalytic impact on other West Tampa properties.
But another synergistic detail is worth noting. The JCC is including a theater for film and stage productions. There’s long been a chronic need for such in order to help Tampa address its unrealized, film-industry potential. You can bet that such a facility, while hardly a panacea for Tampa’s film-industry infrastructure deficit, will not go unnoticed or unappreciated by whomever the county finally hires as film commissioner.