Tampa Heights development receives key approval
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Jun 22, 2016

An $820 million mixed-use development on the Tampa Heights waterfront cleared a key hurdle on Tuesday.

Port Tampa Bay unanimously approved "the permit to extend the Riverwalk and seawall from Waterworks Park to the North Boulevard Bridge and for construction of a 24-slip marina and water taxi slip," developer Adam Harden, partner of SoHo Capital LLC, wrote in an email.

SoHo last week unveiled an ambitious vision for The Heights that includes a rehabilitated Armature Works building and up to 1,500 residential units.

The Riverwalk extension is a big part of the first phase of The Heights. SoHo envisions an activated waterfront that would draw existing traffic on the Riverwalk northward to Tampa Heights.

It would also add a destination to the northern end of the Riverwalk, flanking the Tampa waterfront with two mixed-use districts. Strategic Property Partners is planning a $2 billion, mixed-use district on the southern end of the Riverwalk.

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