New Tampa Downtown Partnership CEO wants to bring storefronts to life
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Sep 18, 2024

In Kenyetta Bridges’ view, there is no shortage of businesses that could fill empty storefronts in downtown Tampa.

“There have been talks about industrial [uses] in certain areas of downtown, and a lot of people will say, ‘We don’t want industrial in our downtown. We want coffee shops. We want yoga studios and traditional retail,’” said Bridges, who became president and CEO of the Tampa Downtown Partnership on July 1. “But when you start to think about climbing gyms for kids — a storefront that has a climbing gym for youth, that’s an example of an industrial use that brings people downtown.”

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