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TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Downtown Tampa is expanding once again.<\/p>\n
Real estate developer Strategic Property Partners announced it plans to build a concert venue, hotel, retail space and parking\u00a0on an empty lot across from Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
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<\/center> It will be on Channelside Drive, between Morgan Street and Jefferson Street.<\/p>\n Andrew Robinson, a barista at Shortwave Coffee on Channelside Drive, said it\u2019s a busy area and there\u2019s often a line just to get in the shop.<\/p>\n \u201c(There is a) line around the corner here fairly regularly. Weekends are when it\u2019s busiest. That\u2019s when it\u2019s going to be lining the door for a couple hours,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n And it could get even busier. The new entertainment district just several blocks from the coffee shop will include a small concert venue with 3,500 seats, a 250-room hotel, stores and more than 1,000 parking spots.<\/p>\n Developers said that the concert venue will be good for emerging artists to build their fanbase before they take on the bigger arenas in the area.<\/p>\n Robinson said he is excited about the idea and is looking forward to the possibility of serving even more tourists.<\/p>\n \u201cI always love talking to people. I love seeing new faces of people from all over. So, more is always better, I enjoy it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Other residents are also excited for the project. Aubrey Glover said he is excited to have more places to socialize. As for traffic, he said he isn\u2019t concerned.<\/p>\n \u201cIt never hurts to have more stores, entertainment facilities or places for families or young people to hang out, drink and have fun,\u201d said Glover.<\/p>\n Robinson, on the other hand, is concerned about traffic. He said he lives five minutes from work, and on really busy days it has taken him half an hour to get home; but he said it\u2019s part of living in a city.<\/p>\n \u201cExtra traffic is always a pain sometimes, and so hopefully they\u2019ll figure out new routes, new light systems, whatever they can do to make it a little bit manageable,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n In a statement, Mayor Jane Castor said the Water Street expansion strengthens tourism and creates new experiences for both residents and visitors.<\/p>\n Developers are aiming to break ground on the district in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source baynews9.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Downtown Tampa is expanding once again. Real estate developer Strategic Property Partners announced it plans to build a concert venue, hotel, retail space and parking\u00a0on an empty lot across from Benchmark International Arena. What You Need To Know A new entertainment district is planned for downtown Tampa\u00a0 Developers said they will build a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[317977,21796,348099,21738,344787,426243,426244],"class_list":["post-2207884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-app-local-business","tag-business","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-topic-latest-local-business-stories","tag-tyler-oneill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Concert-venue-entertainment-district-planned-for-Tampa.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207886,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207884\/revisions\/2207886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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