Cigar City

Lirot worked with the strip club owner, who died last week at age 86, for decades and fought alongside him for decades in challenges to local government regulation of adult entertainment.

The 115-year-old building, across Columbus Drive from the J.C. Newman factory in Ybor City, was once a gathering place for cigar workers. An $18.7 million renovation is underway.

The product that helped define Tampa will face new competition under an executive order issued on Friday by the Obama administration.The directive lifts…