Tampa Bay’s economic progress can be measured by its companies, its job growth and GDP, its population, its corporate headquarters, its entrepreneurs, its graduation rates, its universities and its patents. Even its swagger.
But progress can also be captured in its latest signature buildings. The ones with substance. The ones that represent more for this area than the sum of their steel and concrete.
Here are five such building projects recently unveiled or now in the works, representing investments of hundreds of millions. They are some of the best examples of rising confidence in the breadth and depth of Tampa Bay’s economic future.