Tampa's Center Connect Development wants to bring soul to the suburbs with The Hub retail villages
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Aug 16, 2024

In the late 2010s, as construction cranes rose over the urban cores of Tampa and St. Petersburg, siblings Courtney Bissett-Hayes and Paul Bissett had an idea: Why not bring some city-worthy development to the suburbs?

They were watching plans take shape for food halls and dining gardens in The Heights and Water Street Tampa. With millennials entering their 30s and moving to far-flung subdivisions to raise families, the siblings took a bet on a hybrid form of retail development that marries the cool factor of urban projects with the practicality (and surface parking) of suburban real estate.

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