"Why would anyone want to put a 25-year farm operation out of business?"
-- Attorney Geoffrey Hodges
For 25 years, long before gated communities started springing up around it, the open-air Bearss Groves produce market has sold fresh fruits and vegetables to people living in the Lutz and north Tampa area.
The future, though, may be a different question.
Hillsborough County authorities say the iconic roadside stand never got the permissions it needed to operate — no site development plan, no permits for its structures.
Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.