grand central and ventana

This is another in an ongoing series.  Previously we highlighted:

• residences at franklin
• arlington and sky restaurant
• skypoint
• wood partners
• trump tower tampa
• embassy suites
• plaza harbor island
• towers at channelside
• the place at channelside

Use our handy map to see all current construction in downtown.

On Channelside Drive between Kennedy and Madison (yes, Madison is still there; it will reopen after the completion of these two projects) is Ventana, which has two 10-story towers over parking garage and retail, with a pool in between. There are 84 units.

Construction took a while to get started here, but the building is not as enormous as most of the other channel district projects and should wrap up in the summer of 2007.

Ventana is sort of the little brother of Grand Central at Kennedy, which in terms of land area is the largest project in downtown, for now (Seaport Channelside and the Tampa Heights and Central Park redevelopments will be bigger if they come to pass).

Grand Central includes an east wing and a west wing, each having an eight story and a 14 story component (they aren’t really separate buildings). There will be a total of 392 units.

The east unit is up to the eighth floor, with the west unit several floors behind.

This project is slated to include a grocery store as one of the ground-floor retail tenants.  Those of us who live downtown now pick up most of our goodies from the Oceanic Supermarket on N Tampa.  We are anxiously awaiting an announcement of just what this grocery store will be, but as yet no tenant has been signed.