Dick Greco Plaza Explained

Dick Greco Plaza
Type:HART Transit Center
Platform:2 side platforms, 1 island platform (2 per track)
Tracks:2
Opened:2003
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Dick Greco Plaza is a HARTline transit center located in the southern end of downtown Tampa across from the Marriott Waterside and the Tampa Convention Center. It was the former terminal station for the TECO Line Streetcar until the opening of the Whiting street station. It still serves as the terminating point for the In-Town Trolley routes. The station opened on January 30, 2003, and cost $3 million to build.[1]

The station was officially dedicated on May 29, 2008, in honor of Dick A. Greco, a former mayor who was instrumental in bringing streetcars back to Tampa after an almost 60-year absence.[2] A statue of Greco sitting on a bench was added just outside.[3]

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  1. News: . Streetcar Line Adds Transit Station . Kathy . Steel . January 31, 2003 . 3.
  2. http://www.sptimes.com/News/032101/TampaBay/Greco_puts_a_spark_to.shtml "Greco puts a spark to trolley fire" - St. Pete Times
  3. Web site: "Former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco honored" - St. Pete Times . 2011-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015073400/http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/article537552.ece . 2012-10-15 . dead .