Rubio is asked to leave Tampa office over disruption from weekly protests

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Rubio is asked to leave Tampa office over disruption from weekly protests

By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer
Published: February 28, 2017
Updated: March 1, 2017 at 09:15 AM

TAMPA — Vocal crowds of demonstrators making weekly visits to the Tampa office of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio have gotten the Miami Republican booted from the building.

The owner of Bridgeport Center, a gleaming, nine-story office center at 5201 Kennedy Blvd., notified Rubio's office on Feb. 1 that it will not renew its lease. The reason: The rallies have become too disruptive to the other tenants and a costly expense for the company, said Jude Williams, president of America's Capital Partners.

"A professional office building is not a place for that," Williams said. "I understand their cause, but at the end of the day it was a security concern for us.

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