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City of Tampa offering free food, restrooms, showers, ice and laundry at two locations

It's not the only place in Tampa where folks can get free food.

By Ray Roa on Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 3:55 pm

Photo by Dave Decker

Davis Islands in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 27, 2024.

Tampa Bay continues digging itself out from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which wreaked havoc in across the area last week—and the city of Tampa has just made more resources available to anyone still putting their lives back together.

Two "hurricane relief centers" are now open in Palmetto Beach and Davis Islands, two of Tampa's hardest hit neighborhoods.

Resources including Free lunch and dinner, restrooms, showers, water, ice and laundry services are available daily from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. until further notice, according to the City of Tampa.

In Palmetto Beach, the relief center is at DeSoto Park (2617 Corrine St.); on Davis Islands the center is at Marjorie Park on Columbia Drive.

It's not the only place in Tampa where folks can get free food. Several restaurants have banded together to feed locals every day this week, and Feeding Tampa Bay has set up an emergency distribution center at Crosswind Church (1510 W Hillsborough Ave.) which will operate today, Monday, Sept. 30 from 4 p.m.-6 p.m.

NOW OPEN: TWO Hurricane Relief Centers in Tampa

🍞Providing free food (lunch & dinner), resources, restrooms, showers, water, ice, & laundry services

📍DeSoto Park
📍 Marjorie Park

⏰Open daily from 7am - 7pm until further notice pic.twitter.com/xISmgaDPD2
— City of Tampa (@CityofTampa) September 30, 2024

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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