This St. Patrick’s Day, revelers from Boston to Miami will be donning green, guzzling beer, and otherwise reveling in the luck of the Irish. Meanwhile, in Virginia, shepherd Craig Rogers will be hard at work tending to the herds of sheep that roam his Border Springs Farm.

The Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Florida began as a modest idea. Businessman Blake Casper and sister Allison Casper Adams wanted to open a well-curated bookstore and work space where locals could gather. But when the two discovered a 24,000-square-foot historic building on Kennedy Avenue—originally built as a stable for the Plant Hotel in 1891—their plan grew to include a coffee bar, teashop, restaurant, boutique, and office space. “The idea was to create a place people felt really comfortable spending time in and exploring—a meeting place that created conversation,” Adams says.