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Neapolitan pizza and pastaria, Oronzo, will join Midtown Tampa

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Most food lover’s in the Tampa Bay region have experienced the glory of a meal at Bavaro’s. This Tampa gem opened in March of 2009. At the time, it was one of the city’s first traditional Neapolitan Pizzeria. Just over 10 years later Dan Bavaro opened his newest concept Oronzo, and it will expand into the surging Midtown Tampa neighborhood. Since its inception at 18027 Highwoods Preserve Pkwy, the fast casual pastaria has earned rave reviews from local diners. READ: The Hall on Franklin opening new food hall in Midtown Tampa Oronzo, which officially opened on June 17, is like the Chipotle...

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5 Properties That Define Ybor City

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While the former has long since come roaring back, residents have come back to Ybor more slowly. But with the district’s mix of apartments, condos and even small single-family homes, Michael Mincberg, the principal of Ybor’s Sight Development, says that all the pieces of “live, work, play” are coming together in the neighborhood. Inventory is low across the board, partially thanks to height restrictions in the historic district limiting vertical growth. But owning a piece of Ybor property, especially a single-family casita, puts homeowners in rarefied air. “You have a piece of art,” Mincberg...

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The History of Downtown Tampa

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Inhabited and utilized for thousands of years, Tampa’s downtown has been home to countless people, businesses and commercial ventures. The development of Tampa as a city, which dates back to the establishment of Fort Brooke in 1824, has had a profound effect on the region. Growth began in earnest in 1847, when the village of Tampa — what we now consider downtown — was first platted into blocks by John Jackson. Six years later, he completed a plat of Tampa that is still used today as the legal description for downtown land transactions. Fort Brooke remained a fixture of Tampa throughout the mid-19th...

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5 Developments that Define Downtown Tampa Real Estate

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Thanks to the rise in remote work and the influx of people relocating to Tampa from elsewhere in Florida, the Northeast and the Midwest, the average income of new downtown residents — renters and buyers alike — is going up, according to Sam Chandler, a Smith & Associates Realtor who specializes in the downtown marketplace. He says migration trends, the blossoming of the Water Street Tampa project and the resulting development in surrounding areas has accelerated downtown’s growth and made it a place people want to live even sooner than expected. “I think the transformation in Downtown Tampa...

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