City planners have set their sights on a bold new project: 750 homes will rise from four acres in north downtown Tampa. The site, which sits where the Army-Navy Surplus Market once stood, will split its units between market rate and affordable housing near N. Tampa Street and E. Ashley Drive.
“The ability to really transform this area is just staring us in the face,” said Mayor Jane Castor to Fox 13 News. “We’re not just putting a building up here and there, we’re creating entire neighborhoods.”
Steps away from the Tampa Theatre, Straz Center, and art museum, this mixed-use site will blend homes with shops. Plans call for making the streets safer for people on foot and bikes, even with the I-275 ramp nearby…