Great Places and Spaces: St. Petersburg Museum of History

The St. Petersburg Museum of History plans to renovate and build an 8,000-square-foot addition. The expansion will include an exhibition gallery, showcasing city and state history, a visitor’s center and a rooftop terrace overlooking the waterfront. The project will be completed in three phases. The first floor of the expansion will have a welcome center, … Read more

Great Places and Spaces: Aravilla

Cleveland Construction is the general contractor for a new multi-phased assisted living and memory care community in Clearwater. The first phase is a two-story, 65,000-square-foot, secure assisted living and memory care community with 84 units and 95 beds. The second phase on the eight-acre site will include a three-story, 105,000-square-foot, 132-bed assisted living community connected … Read more

Great Places and Spaces: The Pointe on Westshore

West Palm Beach-based Verdex Construction has begun construction on The Pointe on Westshore, a luxury apartment community in Tampa, being developed by Westshore Pointe, a venture between Jupiter-based Index Investment Group and minority local partner Richard Coley. This marks Verdex’s first project beyond Florida’s east coast. The Pointe on Westshore, at 4950 W. Prescott St., … Read more

Great Places and Spaces: Saltaire

The Kolter Group, developer of the One St. Petersburg condominiums, has released renderings for another project for downtown St. Petersburg called Saltaire.  Preliminary plans propose a 408-foot tower that would rise on what is now a parking lot, between the St. Petersburg Hilton hotel and the Northern Trust office building, on First Street South. The … Read more

Altura Bayshore Tower Planned for South Tampa

Ronto Group has announced plans for Altura Bayshore, a new 22-story tower near the intersection of Bayshore and Bay-to-Bay boulevards. Designed by Tampa architects Curts Gaines Hall Jones, the tower at 2907 South Ysabella Ave will feature 73 residences, including six penthouses. Every residence will have full front-to-back floor plans that provide expansive views, according … Read more

Great Places and Spaces: Dali Museum expansion

St. Petersburg’s Salvador Dalí Museum submitted a capital-projects funding request to the county’s Tourist Development Council in hopes of receiving $17.5 million in public funding to construct a $38.6 million expansion. The museum wants to expand to accommodate 50 percent more visitors, estimating the proposed expansion will bring in an additional 900,000 visitors over a … Read more

Great Places & Spaces: ForCare Medical Group

ForCare Medical Group has completed a 30,000-square-foot medical facility at 15402 N. Florida Avenue in Tampa. The new facility will treat multispecialty medical issues and conducts multispecialty clinical research trials, including research for rare and currently untreatable conditions. The ForCare Medical Center is projected to bring in millions of dollars of revenue that originates outside … Read more

Great Places & Spaces: Center Point at Lakewood Ranch

Casto Southeast Realty Services has begun construction of a $24 million medical office building in Lakewood Ranch. The more-than-70,000-square-foot building is set to be the major anchor of the Center Point development, which is expected to have eight retail parcels, a 30,000-square-foot specialty grocer and 25,000 square feet of shops. No tenants had been announced … Read more