It looks like Orlando’s Amon Investments (click “current projects,” then “tampa towers”) has plans to build a HUGE tower in downtown Tampa. Make that TWO huge towers. The developer includes more artist renderings on the Tampa Towers website.
Look at this thing:
This gaudy skyscraper will sit one or two blocks south and east of the SunTrust Building. Each side of the new twin towers will rise 51 stories at 625 feet. There will be 472 residences, 10K sq. ft of retail, and 9 stories of parking.
Bryan
4 years ago
wow. way cool.
Joel
4 years ago
Yuck. In every worst way it looks like a 21st-century version of Tower Bridge in London.
The symbol of a downtown doesn’t necessarily have to be the tallest thing in sight. Plant Hall’s minarets don’t dominate the skyline but they are what everyone remembers about downtown Tampa. It just seems to me like we’re yet again trying to create an image of the city by trying to look like every other city.
Sandy
4 years ago
Towers of Terror! Why don’t they just go for it and try to outdo Singapore with the tallest building? Then we can all sit back and ooo and ahhh while watching Tower Cam images of it blowing into the Bay. And what’s up with all that green space? Don’t they know Tampa is against green space? Maybe it’s a “falling windowpanes” zone.
Anonymous
4 years ago
I like it. Tampa needs to add to it’s skyline. Need more people downtown!
Rick
4 years ago
IM looking forward to seeing the city in 2009..many will be surprised how different it will look at Super Bowl time…
John
4 years ago
You know, Sandy, some people have pride in Tampa’s downtown and think it shouldn’t be a dead zone of surface parking and nothing-happening-after-6PM.
The whole region is sprawled out and — which seems like you hate seeing it happen — urban renewal and development is going to happen unless you want to build tract housing over more of the pastures and wetlands across the state.
The picture doesn’t do the buildings justice, and the color scheme seems wrong (yellow and green?) but it’s an impressive project… The only thing I do truly have problems with is that it’s another residential development that no one will be able to afford (Condos as to apartments)
Jeff
4 years ago
It looks like a mini-me version of the Petronas Towers.
David Pinero
4 years ago
I agree with the other poster’s sentiment. This may not be particularly attractive (when you think about it, has *anything* drafted as a rich-man’s eloquent actually been beautiful?), but at least it’s focused on bringing people downtown to live. Everything urban is connected to the success of that agenda. More sidewalks, transportation, public safety, and city clout in its dealings with Hillsborough County. Tampa needs to be the Man in the Hillsborough County/Tampa marriage, and this will help see to that. I mean that figuratively of course.
Anonymous
4 years ago
The design/color scheme may be a little bit off but, it is definitely a start. This city is in need of a makeover and I am open to the potential of adding style and elegance to a downtown district that is slightly more exciting than Cleveland, Ohio! Not from there, just been there. Because it is a start, obviously the kinks can be worked out.
Also, I’m not so sure what is going on with the green pastures either!
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog » sticks scoop
4 years ago
[...] emphasis is mine (as is the “tampa blog site“) [...]
Rich Dorton
4 years ago
Its funny that the same people who are going to approve the construction drawings in the County Building, are the ones who will have thier view of the bay blocked by this.. this.. wow.
hyku | blog - Josh Hallett
4 years ago
Tommy Gets the Scoop on Tampa Towers, Newspaper Credits to “Tampa Blog Site”
Tommy Duncan over at Sticks of Fire, ‘the’ Tampa blog, posted about the new Tampa Towers building project last Friday. Today the St. Pete Times wrote a story about the project stating that: News of his project appeared Friday evening…
Bryan Gonzalez
4 years ago
I like it a lot . I think in is diffrent and thats what makes in special. Most of these people who are leaving a reply do not seem to have an eye for art. Tampa is trying to be the city of the arts and this is a great building to show case our city. Were not New York or Chicago why would we need those regular straight borring buildings . What makes Florida diffrent is that its beutiful and full of color.Why cant our building relect that also.
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog » tampa towers take two
4 years ago
[...] Some time after Tommy reported it and the St. Petersburg Times called the builder to learn more, the mysterious and immaculate Tampa Towers project disappeared from the web. Maybe it was stage fright? Maybe it was just wasn’t ready for prime time? Maybe Amon Investments was unsure of its feasibility? [...]
Jay
4 years ago
I am very excited about this project. Our downtowns needs this. Why are some people so afraid of developement?
Eddie
4 years ago
The project won preliminary approval. Tampa City Council has downsized the project. It is temporarily called Tampa Condo II and will consist of only one of the towers. The council argued that because weather conditions, on a normal day, did not threaten those outside, the sky bridges were unnecessary. The tower will have a lighted cap and a very large spire. I think this is perfect. It will finally fill in an area of downtown that is dominated by parking structures. It will become Tampa’s “signature building.”
Eddie
4 years ago
The developers need to fight with the FAA to get the permit to build the tower. Peter O. Knight needs to be demolished. It is only used for private aircraft and the traffic isn’t that busy. That would greatly open the opportunity for tall, eye-dropping skyscrapers.
Phillip
4 years ago
The project is something that Tampa’s downtown needs. I think the finished project will help downtown “grow up” a bit…and be a stepping stone to putting Tampa in a new league. Hopefully this project will be completed…btw, if you go to Amon’s website…the design seems to have changed. Not only is it one tower, but it now appears to be an all glass design.
JEFF
3 years ago
YO THIS BUILDING IN NICE WE NEED BIGER AND BETTER BUILDINGS LIKE THIS ONE DONT LISTEN TO THE OTHER PEOPLE THEY BE HATTEN