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Shopping center set to rise at Hutto's Corner

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By JOSE PATINO GIRONA

jpatino@tampatrib.com

Published: June 17, 2009

TAMPA HEIGHTS - The zoning at Hutto's Corner has been changed and the landowner soon plans to begin building a shopping center.

Suresh "Sam" Patel, owner of Hutto's Corner at North Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, said he hopes to build a six-store shopping center on the nearly 1-acre site.
City council members approved changing the land's zoning to a planned development at its June 4 meeting. It was their second and final vote.

The proposed one-story building will have a 1940s style. Façades of the businesses would vary.

Hutto's corner was established in 1948 when George "Fred" Hutto opened a neighborhood grocery store, selling milk, bread, sandwiches, hardware, flowers, plants, greeting cards and television tubes. A fire destroyed the store in 1960, but Hutto rebuilt.

Hutto sold the store in 1977; Patel, who owns a Citgo gas station across the street from Hutto's Corner, bought the property in 2002. He closed the grocery store in 2004.

Reporter Jose Patino Girona can be reached at (813) 259-7659.

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