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Ulele: A look inside

In the summer of 2013, an intricate network of pipes and underground cisterns is discovered under the slab of the room where Ulele’s brewhouse will be. The pipes must be excavated before construction can resume. Some of the pipes are later placed in the garden patio outside the restaurant as remnant art work. JEFF HOUCK / STAFF
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Restaurateur Richard Gonzmart speaks with a consultant on March 8, 2012 inside the former Tampa Water Works building in Tampa Heights. Over the course of the next two years, Gonzmart will spend more than $5 million to transform the former city public works building and surrounding grounds into the restaurant Ulele. JEFF HOUCK / STAFF
A construction worker removes debris on Aug. 7, 2012 from the interior of the former Tampa Water Works building in Tampa Heights. The building, which will become the restaurant Ulele, had been used as a storage facility by the city’s public works department. EFF HOUCK / STAFF
Grilled oysters will be on the menu at Ulele restaurant as a representation of the food eaten by natives who lived along the Hillsborough River before European settlers. The restaurant's dining room will feature an oyster shucking station as well as a circular grill that can generate 1 million BTUs of energy for cooking seafood, beef and vegetables. PHOTO BY JEFF HOUCK / STAFF
Ken Schwartz, president and CEO of the Tampa-based restaurant design consulting firm SSA, makes a point about the detail of the restuarant’s layout during a Ulele restaurrant planning meeting on Sept. 20, 2012 at Beck Construction. Schwartz consults on restaurants worldwide, including dozens of Hard Rock Cafes. He also is designing the upcoming Locale Market & FarmTable Kitchen at the Sundial plaza in St. Petersburg. EFF HOUCK / STAFF
The building, which will become the restaurant Ulele, had been used as a storage facility by the city’s public works department. JASON BEHNKEN / STAFF
Workers begin demolition inside the former Tampa Water Works building on Sept. 12, 2012. Once the home of the Tampa’s water supply, the building had been replaced by more modern facilities and fallen into disrepair as a city storage facility. JEFF HOUCK / STAFF
The building, which will become the restaurant Ulele, had been used as a storage facility by the city’s public works department. JASON BEHNKEN / STAFF
Robert M. Thomas, right, CEO of Crystal Springs Preserve in Zephyrhills, speaks to restaurateur Richard Gonzmart on July 4, 2012, about water quality in Florida. Thomas, a third generation Tampa native, is a rancher who leases his Crystal Spring to the Zephyrhills Bottling Co. Gonzmart met with Thomas to have water from Ulele Spring analyzed for possible use in his new Ulele restaurant. JEFF HOUCK / STAFF
The building, which will become the restaurant Ulele, had been used as a storage facility by the city’s public works department. JASON BEHNKEN / STAFF
Columbia Restaurant president Richard Gonzmart, standing, makes a note during a meeting July 25, 2012, about plans for a new restaurant named Ulele being built at the former Tampa Water Works building along the Hillsborough River. Seated left to right are Columbia Restaurant chairman Casey Gonzmart, construction consultant Bill Rain, project manager Keith Sedita and architect Joe Harrington. JEFF HOUCK / STAFF
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