Lease sparks office activity at Water Street Tampa

Chicago-based accounting firm becomes the first office tenant in $3 billion project transforming downtown Tampa

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. April 26, 2019
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COURTESY RENDERING — RSM US will become the first office tenant in Strategic Property Partners' Sparkman Wharf office and retail complex this summer.
COURTESY RENDERING — RSM US will become the first office tenant in Strategic Property Partners' Sparkman Wharf office and retail complex this summer.
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Strategic Property Partners (SPP) has announced new hotels, restaurants, entertainment and even institutional users at Water Street Tampa, its $3 billion redevelopment of a 52-acre swath anchored by Amalie Arena downtown.

But no tenants have been revealed for the roughly two million square feet of new office space that SPP, a partnership between Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment, is planning  — until now.

 

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