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Two years after the Columbia Pool was closed indefinitely, the state legislature passed two budget bills that secured $15 million in lottery bond funding for the proposed North Portland Aquatic Center.

Two years after the Columbia Pool was closed indefinitely, the state legislature passed two budget bills that secured $15 million in lottery bond funding for the proposed North Portland Aquatic Center.

Kojaks House of Ribs was a South Tampa staple for 43 years but owner Chris Forney, who sold the barbeque restaurant last year, is hoping to have the same success in Seffner.  

Owner Chris Forney says he hopes to be serving barbecue there by the end of 2021.

After four decades, Kojaks House of Ribs will close in South Tampa By FOX 13 news staff Published  article TAMPA, Fla. - It’s the final weekend to taste some of Tampa’s most famous ribs – and homemade sangria. Kojak’s House of Ribs is shutting its doors after more than four decades in business. The restaurant has been a South Tampa staple since 1978 and has been family-owned and operated ever since. The last day will be Sunday, August 1. The home that Kojak’s operates out of was bui...

South Tampa staple Kojaks closing to make way for apartment complex Lloyd Sowers reports TAMPA, Fla. - You could say Chris Forney grew up in a house of ribs. He was 12 when his dad put him to work at Kojak’s, an old restaurant with a huge porch, stuck in time near Gandy and Bayshore boulevards in South Tampa.  "It was a regular home built in 1927," said Forney. "I met the lady whose father built it. She mentioned this was the first house on this block and close to the water, nothing but woo...