How the next decade will shape Tampa’s skyline

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While many other metro areas felt a dip during the pandemic, downtown Tampa is experiencing an explosion of growth. Economic development experts say it’s long overdue.

At least 10 projects in the pipeline will stretch 27 stories or more, according to data collected by the Downtown Partnership. The projects, if they avoid pitfalls, will fill out Tampa’s skyline and add thousands of residential units to a downtown that’s still evolving from business district to vibrant city center.


https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/ ... s-skyline/

[Greg S]

Downtown Tampa is flat out awesome. One of the cleaner downtowns I have been too.

Very smart here to be going to residential for their growth. As the office world changes, this will be the key to keep downtown cores vibrant. Was really impressed when I was there last year.

Will be interesting to see what happens with the Rays. It looked like St Pete's downtown had some good projects underway as well.

Greg

[TitosBuritoBarn]

I was debating if I wanted to be a Debbie Downer and note the lack of transportation options, but I see the article devoted a paragraph to it, so I feel empowered..

I recall an article not too long ago, also from the local Tampa newspaper, discussing Tampa having some of the worst public transit in the country. https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/ ... ion-worst/ I'm glad to see they're going through an urban renaissance and it looks like it's legitimately noteworthy, but they're going to have some huge transportation issues to sort out soon and really need to be doing that concurrently. If they can extend the lovely BRT system that was just built in St. Pete over to Tampa, that would be an excellent start. I do know they've extended the streetcar recently, but can't speak to how well that operates as a form of regular transportation vs. moving around tourists or people who've come to the city for an event.

[Renovator2559]

Tampa is not pedestrian friendly and the public transport sucks, however its good that at least they are referencing. Tampa is basically a large suburb with many disconnected walkable areas, plenty of work that needs to be done and repair.

I find it interesting how in the Sun Belt, people are so much in debt. Is there a relationship to the low IQ map in the South? With the influx of people to the Sun Belt, metrics should improve but unfortunately still stagnant.

Nebraska is impressive in both of these rankings.





https://apps.urban.org/features/debt-in ... le=totcoll

Also Tampa being the most citizen debt ridden cities of Florida.

Due to the plenty of sprawl in Tampa, Tampa has plenty of debt and $3.2B to fix its aging pipes, due to the suburb experiment, Strong Towns wrote this article.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/201 ... from-where

[Garrett]

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