My Downtown Tampa

Will there be a new 26-story apartment building in downtown Tampa?  Maybe.
In late January, Developers Intown Group and Crosland plan to ask Tampa City Council to rezone property at Tampa and Tyler streets (see proposed apartment tower map).
The art deco style project would have 404 apartments, 16,000 square feet of shops and a parking garage, [...]

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InterContinental Hotels Group Announces Hotel Indigo Coming to Downtown Tampa.
BayStar Hotel Group to develop $29 million new-build property slated to open in 2010
InterContinental Hotels Group, the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, today announces that a Hotel Indigo is coming to downtown Tampa, Fla.  The 168-room new-build property is expected to open in [...]

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Press Release from Martin Communications:
Downtown Tampa ’s first and only luxury high-rise apartments
For the first time, an urban lifestyle in an elegant, downtown apartment high-rise building will be available to Tampa residents.
Element, downtown Tampa’s high-rise luxury community, announced today that it will open a leasing center on Monday, November 17, with an open house and [...]

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Two firms from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada have bought The Place at Channelside for $21.9 million at a bankruptcy auction.
Southwest Properties and Armco Capital Corp. joined forces as Channelside LLC, and plan to rent out condos in the 243 unit building.
Southwest CEO Jim Spatz said that he doesn’t think the units in the downtown [...]

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The St. Pete Times says Donald Trump and SimDag have settled their differences through a mediator.
Warren said mediation brought the licensing agreement “to a closure,” effectively sealing the fate of the tower.
“It’s really off the drawing boards right now. That’s the economic reality of what’s happened,” Warren said. “If SimDag wants to use the Trump [...]

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So, what is this Tampa Downtown Partnership, anyway?
Well, it used to be an association.  From the partnership website – tampasdowntown.com
The Tampa Downtown Association grew out of several months of weekly discussion by a steering group of property owners, developers and businessmen, who felt that Tampa’s central business district needed a creative, proactive, private sector organization [...]

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[ June 18, 2008; 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. ] From the Tampa Downtown Partnership:
On Wednesday (6/18) at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina the Partnership will hold its 22nd Annual Meeting & Luncheon. The Partnership is excited to announce that Carol Coletta will be the keynote speaker.  Carol is President and CEO of CEOs for Cities, as well as host and producer of [...]

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According to their website, The Glazer Children’s Museum promises to provide energetic, stimulating and playful environments for learning and interaction:

The Museum focuses on children from birth to 10 years and will offer exhibit and programming environments that encourage them to explore the connections between different aspects of the world around them from history, to commerce, [...]

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Reported in the Downtown Partnership’s Monday Morning Memo today:
The City of Tampa and Skanska U.S., master contractor for the Curtis Hixon Park/Tampa Museum of Art project, have made a “webcam” available for viewing the dramatic changes happening at the site. If you have not seen what’s happening, now you can view everything from the [...]

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The Tampa Tribune reports that the developers of Trump Tower Tampa are close to giving up on ever building. A single financing option remains, and if that fails, they are ready to walk away and sell.
You might remember when Donald Trump welcomed everyone to get in on the ground floor of the “largest building [...]

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