April 25, 2024
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Who said that?
Florida's quote of the day
"Friday the 13th doesn’t scare us either."
-- Bowen Arnold
The inside of an elevator might seem an odd place to consider the current state of superstition in America.
But there they are, in many high-rise hotels and residential towers: Elevator buttons that go up to the 12th floor, skip 13 and continue to the 14th and beyond.
Of course, those buildings actually do have 13th floors — they’re just not marked 13, a number long considered unlucky.
But could that superstition-based construction quirk be changing in Tampa Bay’s current building boom?
Witness Water Street Tampa, the sleek neighborhood rising at the southeast edge of downtown. New residential towers Cora, Asher and Heron all were built with marked 13th floors.
Read more at the Tampa Bay Times
