Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Your free article limit has been reached this month.

An entrepreneur and a developer are rebuilding an Ybor City corner

In the shadows of a massive, transformational project in Tampa lies a separate and smaller — albeit important — second development. This one goes heavy on urban ethos.


  • By
  • | 5:00 a.m. October 27, 2023
  • | 0 Free Articles Remaining!
A rendering of Casa Gomez, a five-story office building with a rooftop restaurant that Ybor City developer Darryl Shaw will soon open.
A rendering of Casa Gomez, a five-story office building with a rooftop restaurant that Ybor City developer Darryl Shaw will soon open.
Courtesy image
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • Share

Two new buildings are planned for Ybor City, with work well underway on the projects of developer Darryl Shaw and DDA Development.

But the four-story apartment building, Casa Marti, and the five-story office complex, Casa Gomez, are not part of Shaw's ambitious Gas Worx project for Ybor City. Rather, the two buildings (Marti is at the corner of Nuccio Parkway and East Seventh Avenue, and Gomez is at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 13th Street) are a different passion project for Shaw — Ybor City's biggest private-sector advocate since he made his first land purchase there in 1989.

 


Your Business News. Your Way.

Subscribe today. Cancel anytime.

Latest News

×

Special Offer: Only $1 Per Week For 1 Year!

Your free article limit has been reached this month.
Subscribe now for unlimited digital access to our award-winning business news.
Join thousands of executives who rely on us for insights spanning Tampa Bay to Naples.