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Tampa apartment tower could change downtown dynamic for renters

The AER building in the heart of Tampa's art district allows renters to get a piece of the city at the same level as million-dollar condo buyers.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:00 a.m. March 20, 2024
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Kelsey Harbin, the property manager at AER, a new 31-story tower going up in Tampa's art district, shows what the lobby will eventually look like.

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With just a few months to go before residents begin moving in, the owners of the AER building in downtown Tampa allowed some visitors to tour the site early March.

The 31-story tower remains essentially a construction site with about 200 people currently working on it, but it is starting to take shape inside and out. Like most tours, the idea was to create buzz around the project

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.