South Tampa staple Kojak's closing to make way for apartment complex
South Tampa staple Kojak's 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 woods." But the woods get smaller as the city gets bigger. Within the next few months, the old house t...