Crews have broken ground on a sprawling new home for Tampa’s solid waste department at the McKay Bay Peninsula, a five-building campus designed to modernize how the city handles trash collection as its population keeps climbing. The complex sits next to the city’s existing energy transfer station and is meant to replace aging infrastructure with something built for Tampa’s next phase of growth.
Construction has begun on the new campus, according to taylorjohnson.com, which reports the site is located on the McKay Bay Peninsula adjacent to the city’s energy transfer station. The outlet describes a campus comprising five separate buildings: two scale houses for weighing refuse, a container-maintenance building, an operations and administrative building, and a parking garage.
That garage alone is a significant piece of the project. Plans call for it to hold 400 vehicles and include 27 electric-vehicle charging stations, the same report notes, signaling the department’s push toward a cleaner fleet alongside its day-to-day hauling operations.
A Transfer Station Twice the Old Size
Central to the campus is a new transfer station that Tampa officials describe as critical to keeping up with the city’s expansion. The facility is a 50,000-square-foot, $34 million build, according to FOX 13 News, and the station is twice as big as the one it’s replacing. One earlier search-result snippet from Waste Today put the figure at 53,000 square feet, though that discrepancy with the reported 50,000-square-foot size has not been resolved…