Kitchen Remodeling in Progress Village, FL

From first measure to installation day near Progress Boulevard

We begin with a measure and a conversation about what you want to keep, change or pass down. From there we draw the plan and build a 3D model, which you can go over on a video call or in person on Lewis Ave. The cabinetry is made and finished in our shop, then set in place on back-to-back days so the kitchen is back in use without a long gap. For family pieces, our article on whether to restore or replace an heirloom can help you decide.

A 1958 community plan, county permits and nearby neighbors

Progress Village Inc. was organized in 1958 by Tampa civic leaders, and the first homes sold around 1960, giving Black families a path to homeownership and offsetting displacement from redevelopment in Tampa's Black neighborhoods. Residents and community leaders continue working to preserve that history today. Being outside any city, the village gets its building permits from Hillsborough County. We often pair visits here with Palm River-Clair Mel and Riverview.

The CDP covers about 3.25 square miles, roughly nine miles southeast of downtown Tampa, with I-75 along its eastern edge and Palm River-Clair Mel, Riverview and Gibsonton on its other sides. Progress Village Middle Magnet School of the Arts and Jack Lamb Elementary sit on the community's southern edge, so on school days we time deliveries for after the morning drop-off. Mail here carries a Tampa ZIP code, 33619, but permits come from the county rather than the city.

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Compact block homes off 78th Street and Progress Boulevard

The original houses were modest concrete block homes of roughly 850 to 925 square feet, laid out on streets near 78th Street and Progress Boulevard. Many have since been expanded by their owners, and newer infill homes now sit among them. Original kitchens are small and efficient by design, which is exactly where custom cabinetry pays off: boxes sized to the inch, pull-outs instead of blind corners, and uppers taken to the ceiling wherever there is no soffit in the way.

The Census shows how much infill has arrived since: 5,392 residents in 2010 and 11,188 in 2020, more than double, in 4,590 housing units. Two very different kitchens now share the community. The originals, built around 1960 at 850 to 925 square feet, have small galley or L-shaped kitchens where a family may have replaced cabinets two or three times, and owners often want to keep something meaningful, such as a hutch or a family table, in the new plan. The infill houses have open layouts with builder cabinets that are young but thinly built. The originals' concrete block walls give upper cabinets a solid anchor, so the limit in those kitchens is space, not structure.