A battle of the big box versus mom and pop is playing out in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa. Several businesses in the building that discount store Family Dollar will be purchasing from a local owner have been given 30-day eviction notices to vacate the property.

Throughout the historic area, you can drive down the cobblestone streets and find the signs dotting the landscape:

"No FAMILY DOLLAR in historic Seminole Heights!"

Neighborhood resident and recent new record store owner Carl Webb said Wednesday that business is good just down the street from the store's location in the 5500 hundred block of North Florida Avenue. Webb opened Microgroove in December as he turned his love of collecting vinyl records since he was a mere 10 years old into reality.

But he is concerned about Family Dollar moving into the building. As a business owner, Webb said he would find the process daunting, not knowing how he would close his business, find a new place and then open up in just 30 days.

Dean Rands, who lives just down the block from the new location, has lived in Seminole Heights for 18 years and has been very vocal against the store moving in. "Putting a big box store in the middle of all this would really not follow the plan of further rejuvenation of the neighborhood," he said.

Webb also wonders why Family Dollar chose the N. Florida Ave. location since there are already five other stores within a 2-mile radius; the closest store is a mile away. "You can kind of throw a rock and, you know, hit it," Webb said of the store's proximity to him.

Family Dollar officials said the store is not in the business of putting others out of business. They said they are doing nothing more than enhancing the community's shopping experience.