29-story towers, grocery, retail in the works for TECO site near Channel district
Phillips Development & Realty is planning a massive mixed-use development named Gas Worx on the TECO Peoples Gas site between Ybor City and the Channel district. The developer has filed additional plans with the city that show two 29-story residential towers with a total 1,432 units. A third proposed building on the 7.64-acre site would […]
Condos or apartments? Here’s what will determine the future of one Channel district tower
The sale of more than 200 residences in The Slade will be a bellwether of downtown Tampa’s residential real estate market. HFF LP is marketing 214 of The Slade’s 294 units for sale for Miami Beach-based Crescent Heights, which bought the units out of foreclosure nearly four years ago. The Slade — which is at […]
Boston Calling, Tampa Bay should answer
I apologize, dear Tampa Bay, for not staying local my first Memorial Day weekend as a Tampa resident. I didn’t enter your stores. I didn’t dine in your restaurants. My money went to Boston. Granted, this weekend you did not have the Boston Calling music festival. Beck, St. Vincent and Run the Jewels played. Could […]
Pending home sales hit highest level since 2006
Pending home sales hit their highest level in nine years in April, a sign that last month’s sales decline for existing homes may be only temporary. The National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index, which is based on contract signings, jumped to 112.4 in April, rising for the fourth consecutive month. That’s its highest […]
First Watch acquires Colorado-based breakfast chain
First Watch is still hungry. The Bradenton-based breakfast/lunch/brunch chain has acquired The Egg & I chain of 114 units, which also specialize in breakfast. Terms were not disclosed. The Egg & I, founded in Colorado in 1987, is the latest in a buying spree by First Watch. In 2014, the chain, majority-owned by the private […]
$45M Westshore apartments to break ground Thursday (Rendering)
A North Carolina developer will celebrate the construction of a luxury apartment community in Tampa’s Westshore business district on Thursday. Crescent Communities, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Crescent Westshore at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The 374-apartment complex will be built at the intersection of West Boy Scout Boulevard and […]