Judge denies Bayshore neighbors’ appeal of alcohol permit for Caspers’ Stovall House

A circuit judge has denied a request by a Bayshore neighborhood group to overturn Tampa City Council's decision to allow the Stovall House to sell alcoholic beverages. City council in September approved plans to convert the historic Stovall-Lee home on Bayshore Boulevard into a private social club. Tampa's Casper family — the owners of Oxford Exchange and the largest McDonald's franchisee in the state of Florida — purchased the property in March 2018 for $9.5 million. The Caspers' vision…Original Article