Ok, so I was thinking, there is a lot of stuff that people claim will happen in march/April:

Trump Tower Tampa - 52
Novare Condos - 31
Plaza Harbour Island - 20
Grand Central at Kennedy - 12/14
The Place - 7
Franklin Residences - 7

That, of course, does not have other stuff that may or may not go around then or a bit later.

The rental apartment proposal for Channelside is supposed to get underway by May as well. What's it called? "Seaport Center"?

It seems that numerous projects have been timed to be completed right around the same time as when Meridian and the Crosstown thing will be done...

Indeed, and what a wonderful thing it is.

It is Seaport Center at something or the other - nothing like having a name that flows of the lips in sonorous joy. blah blah at blah blah. . .

Updated list at the top.

There also two other smaller projects around DT starting soon... the Residences on Franklin and the UT dorm.

Oh and something else... If these projects really do get underway as planned, then we should expect another wave of proposals later this year. Might even see couple pretty soon.

Yea, I added Franklin Residences in the edit.

I just went to the UT website and looked at the campus map (which is a pdf)
http://www.utampa.edu/aboutut/campustour/virtu_tour/campusmap.pdf

if you look at #16 - Kennedy Place - the 10 story dorm - it says it is under construction. now, I am not one to go by campus maps, but if they haven't started, which I don't think they have, at lest they plan on doing it soon. I hope they eat up a good amount of the land south of kennedy. It would be nice to have it hopping.

I really always thought they would go west before south, but they're obviously going to have to expand in one direction or another. And I'm all for it, as having a few thousand yuppie college students milling around the DT area will be great for keeping the crowd mixed.

IDK....developers are usually (not always) late on groundbreaking (or construction in general). At worst, I'd expect just a month or two delay on some of these projects (cross your fingers)!

Indeed they are - so if May is the deal - I'm fine with that - particularly because I had no expectation that most of these would start before December 2005.

Are any of these developers incorporating office space into their projects ? Any office space at all ?

Grand Central has some. I think some of the others do too, but not much. There are little office projects going on - new and refurbishings of old buildings.

^ Thanks.

Hopefully, some significant office space will be built in the Channelside district in the future.

Which reminds me, if I was developing the DT Channelside site, that project would be built to the maximum use I could get it approved for (which I gaurantee is more, now that the Channelside NIMBYS have crumbled). I think it is actually a great spot for a mixed-use tower comprised almost equally of office, hotel and retail/entertainment space.

Wasn't the DT Channelside project announced before the Towers @ C'side or the O2 / Pinnacle Place towers? Or even before the Place and Grand Central and Ventana, for that matter? And all those projects are either in site preparation, or breaking ground in the next couple months.

I haven't read or heard a thing about DT Channelside in a looooong time. It appears that they are really lagging.

I think it's being redesigned, but I have no idea. With Harbour Island soon to be built out, and Channelside development booming, I think Byrd realizes that thier project should really be more than condos on top of a grocery store.

Well, it's March - what will start first? and when?

OK, I'll take a stab (it's a bit slow this afternoon). In this order:

1. Demo on warehouses where the Place will be built
2. Construction starts on Novare Tower
3. Construction starts on Trump Tower Tampa
4. Construction starts on Franklin Residences
5. Construction starts on Grand Central
6. Construction starts on Plaza at Harbour Island

Projects already in some phase of construction:
One Bayshore
The Meridian
The Arlington
The Alagon
The Bellamy
1000 Channelside
Towers at Channelside
5th Ave Villas in Ybor
Citilofts on 5th in Ybor
Las Ybor Townhomes

So what's next:
Christiansted?
Ventana?
O2 / Pinnacle Place?
Box Factory Lofts?
The 26-story tower planned next to One Bayshore?

OK, I'll take a stab (it's a bit slow this afternoon). In this order:

1. Demo on warehouses where the Place will be built
2. Construction starts on Novare Tower
3. Construction starts on Trump Tower Tampa
4. Construction starts on Franklin Residences
5. Construction starts on Grand Central
6. Construction starts on Plaza at Harbour Island



You could probably throw Ventana in there, maybe even in First place. Their lot is cleared and they were putting stakes on the lot yesterday.

Stakes? Really. I thought they were behind, but maybe not . . .

I don't think all of those will start in March, or even April.

I'm becoming increasingly interested in seeing what's next, as more and more currently proposed towers are nearing construction. As housing inventories keep tightening in the burbs, driving prices up rapidly, we might even see an acceleration of buyers looking at the city.

Just heard that Ventana is scheduled to breakground next month (April)