Will be the cities tallest building, taking the title from the AmSouth building.
Emporis: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=223315
Website: http://www.trumptowertampa.com


- When completed in 2007 (estimated), Trump Tower Tampa would become Tampa's tallest building, surpassing AmSouth Building.
- Prices of the luxury tower's condominium units will start from US $700,000 and range to over $6 million.
- The luxury residential tower will offer its residents "unprecedented" views over downtown and Tampa Bay.
- The tower will offer luxury condominium units ranging from 1,991 square feet to 6,150 square feet.
- The tower's first floor will contain a lobby, restaurant and retail shops; floors two through nine will offer parking; the tenth floor will contain amenities, a business center and conference room; and floors 11 through 52 will house luxury condominium units.
- The luxury condominium tower will be the tallest residential high-rise in Florida outside Miami.
- The tower will be The Trump Organization's first development on the Gulf of Mexico.
- Floors 47 through 52 of the tower will contain luxurious penthouse units.
- The luxury tower will be built on a 1.5 acre site along the Hillsborough River.
- The tower will be located across North Ashley Drive from AmSouth Building and will partially block westerly views from AmSouth Building's offices.
- According to artistic renderings, the tower's contemporary exterior design will contain the three basic features of postmodernism: base, body, and cap.
- The tower's site had been approved to be developed as luxury homes in June 2004.
- The luxury tower is expected to revitalize the downtown financial and cultural districts.
- Joan Altabe of the Bradenton-Herald referred to the building's design as "an oversized Sunbeam Shavemaster of old - rounded off at the top for a smoother shave".
- Construction is expected to take 24 to 30 months.
- Site work began summer 2005.
- Located on the parcel of the once proposed Swire Mirabella.
- Studies by DMJM Aviation, Inc. indicated the tower's height is compatible with local air traffic.
- A 3-foot scale model of the building, which cost nearly $80,000, was on display in the tower's sales center.
- Among the unit's buyers are Monte Kiffin, defense coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and several New York Yankees players.


Render:
http://trumptowertampa.com/images/gallery/model/model_2.jpg

Latest Construction Picture: June 29th, 2006 by Gdad.
http://scl.smugmug.com/photos/78485905-L.jpg

I was wondering when someone would start this thread in the world forums...

Here are some more renders, courtesy of the Tampa forumers in the Florida section of SSC:

old kinda crappy render of the tower in the skyline, but shows the relative height of the building:
http://www.trumptowertampa.com/images/gallery/model/model_1.jpg

new render, and the best so far:
http://trumptowertampa.com/images/gallery/model/model_2.jpg

ugly

not bad for a residential tower...should add to the skyline positively.

Well yeah, it looks very very American. Fits to the skyline I guess. Not bad, but not a beauty either.

Doesn't seem to have enough windows for the location. Not a big fan, but it will certainly add to the skyline.

Great Tower, will be great if completed

I wonder if Florida can handle more condo development. I had read somewhere that investors came in droves, then bailed out when the market started to turn -thus jeopardizing many of the projects under construction.....but I guess Trump doesn't makes mistakes on this stuff.

^^Nice title. ;)

This is nice, but Tampa could use some more midrises to balance the skyline out.

its a pretty nice building !........i like it

I like it tons.

nice addition to the Tampa skyline

Very nice project, I was in Tampa last summer and I can say it will be a perfect addition to the fast growing skyline

i dont think its getting built they are having issues with it

Nice location and heigth to the Tampa Skyline - typical Florida condo tower though, nothing special

I like it. Very nice.

Hope it gets built (refering to post 15)

Decent.

Right state...jus wrong city....looks more like a Miami thing...Tampa needs something that has more identity....my two cents

Looks very kool. :cheers:

Not happening.

Well, to give you the short story: a VERY reliable developer has taken over the project, but little is going on. They shuffle dirt around occasionally. Many are confident that Related will pull the project off, but I'm skeptical.

Honestly, I don't see it as much of a loss for the city... it isn't very inspired.

It's almost officially dead. Huge lawsuits have started against the developers based on the shoddy mismanagement of the project.

Lawsuits: Debt mounts for Trump Tower players
Tampa Bay Business Journal - April 13, 2007by Michael HinmanStaff Writer

Kathleen Cabble
Trump Tower Tampa was one of SimDag’s projects.
View Larger Companies that once staked a claim to develop the mired Trump Tower Tampa are facing new legal challenges over debt.

Three limited liability companies are facing a pair of lawsuits filed in Pinellas County claiming that more than $2 million in loans are in default.


R.W. Harris, a Clearwater-based specialty foundation subcontractor, has sued SID Clearwater Marina LLC and SimDag Towers LLC for $797,000 after the companies failed to repay four loans issued throughout the second half of 2006 by the end of the year, according to the civil complaint.

SID Clearwater Marina is the company responsible for developing Antigua Bay Yacht Club in Clearwater and is registered with Florida's Division of Corporations by SimDag Investments LLC. That company, in turn, lists Orlando-based Titanium Technologies Inc. as its managing member.

Frank Amodeo, principal with the Orlando-based private equity firm Mirabilis Ventures Inc., is director of Titanium, public records show.

Mirabilis Ventures reportedly took over both Trump Tower Tampa and Antigua Bay last November. But the relationship is unclear. Mirabilis has yet to finalize its agreement to assume control of those projects, SimDag spokesman Hooks said Tuesday. Mirabilis is being investigated by a federal grand jury about not turning over to the government taxes collected by the company from its clients.

Lenders demand repayment
"The lawsuit is based on four promissory notes that arise out of work performed" for the companies, said Brian Deeb of Deeb & Brainard in St. Petersburg, which is representing R.W. Harris. Deeb wouldn't elaborate whether the amount came from foundation work at a SID Clearwater Marina project.

"What's going to be tried here are the promissory notes. We're not trying what work was done," he said.

The lawsuit was filed April 2 in the Pinellas County Circuit Court, and the named defendants have 20 days to respond to the suit, Deeb said.

A second separate lawsuit filed March 30 has pit four individual investors -- Edmund Page and Janina Brandt of Pinellas County, and James and Judith Ann Hard of Sugar Grove, Ill. -- against SimDag Investments as well as SimDag CEO Frank Dagostino and former partner Jody Simon. That lawsuit is seeking the repayment of $1.01 million plus $250,000 in interest from two promissory notes issued in August 2004 and January 2005 that also was due Dec. 30.

Two listed phone numbers for SimDag were inoperable, and Dagostino could not be reached for comment through SimDag spokesman David Hooks.

Simon, whose partnership stake in SimDag was bought out last November, said Wednesday that he wasn't aware of the lawsuit. "I just assume that the SimDag guys back there are taking care of all of that," he said.

Problems piling up
SimDag's Web site lists six projects under development in both Florida and New Jersey including Antigua Bay, Bella Marguerite in St. Pete Beach and Trump Tower Tampa.

A pair of investors in Trump Tower sued the company earlier this year demanding their deposit back. The highly anticipated project has been stuck in both construction and financial issues that have left the Ashley Drive site idle.

The Related Group of Miami, which is building three other Trump projects in Florida, is reportedly still negotiating to take over that project. SimDag has, however, been working to reduce nearly $3.5 million in construction liens placed against the project, according to court records, paying out $1.02 million to Case Atlantic Co. in December and $700,000 to Turner Construction Co. last May. Case was the company responsible for Trump Tower Tampa's foundation, while Turner was at one time the general contractor for the project.

After those payments, SimDag still owes $966,000 to Case and $700,000 to Turner.

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I dont like it...They should make it more of a glass looking building like the one in chicago

nice design

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