New hotel, office development proposed in Westshore
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Jun 27, 2016

A Tampa group is planning to redevelop a Westshore property to include new office space and a hotel.

Zons Development, based in Tampa, has proposed two new buildings at 3415 E. Frontage Road, just south of West Laurel Street near Tampa International Airport. The proposed development includes 200,000 square feet of office space and 150 hotel rooms. (See plans embedded below.)

It's not known whether Zons has signed a tenant for the office space. Vacant office space in both Westshore and downtown Tampa is at an all-time low, meaning there's high demand for new space. But it's unlikely that any developer would break ground on a purely speculative basis, without an anchor tenant in place.

Neither Zons nor Beck Group, the contact on the project, were available for comment Monday afternoon.

The 4.4-acre site is currently home to a 34,000-square-foot office building occupied by the Social Security Administration.

The project will be built in phases, according to rezoning application. The first phase is a 12-story building - a four-story parking deck topped by four stories of office space with a four-story hotel on top. The second phase is an office building.

Zons anticipates completion of the first phase - 100,000 square feet of office space and the 150 hotel rooms - by July 2018; the second phase, the remaining 100,000 square feet of office space, will follow by January 2020.

Ashley Gurbal Kritzer is a reporter for the Tampa Bay Business Journal.