Jose Oliva was elected to the Florida House in 2011, and became House speaker in 2018. Bappert replaced Jose Oliva as CEO of Oliva Cigar Company in 2018. Jose Oliva’s House term ended in November.

Founded in 1934, the Oliva Co. was a major tobacco supplier but didn't make cigars and last stored its product in the building from the 1980s through late 1990s.

Company patriarch Angel Oliva moved from Cuba to Tampa in 1925. He worked in a warehouse that stored imported tobacco for Tampa’s cigar industry, then the largest in the world.

Notable guests: Bobby Newman, 3rd generation owner of JC Newman Cigar Company, Jeff Borysiewicz, owner of Corona Cigar Company, and John Oliva, Oliva Cigar Company.