What You Need To Know A former cigar factory is being converted into a boutique hotel The hotel, once complete, will be 70 rooms in total While the current owner hasn't specified how much the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Y. Pendas y Alvarez Cigar factory, a 43,000 square-foot factory that’s been empty for years, now has a new owner and is now home to Wine Stream Inc., an Italian wine company.

The executives of Story House, the company that plans to transform the former factory into a mini-Hollywood production studio and create hundreds of jobs, said the intent is to usher in a new era.