A "Forgotten Land" No More

Two decades after acquiring a somewhat “forgotten land” between downtown Tampa and the Westshore Business District, New York-based Bromley Cos. has begun going vertical with an ambitious, mixed-use development that even it acknowledges wouldn’t have worked until now.

That’s largely because in the years since its assemblage, Tampa has skewed to a younger population and American consumers have both accepted and gravitated toward more urban collections of assets that offer live/work/play dynamics.