Momentum builds at massive shopping mall transformation

Already more than $100 million in, a New York developer has big plans for the reinvention of a Tampa shopping mall.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. February 26, 2021
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Courtesy. An interior rendering of the planned 215,000-square-foot, mixed-use office building, named Base Camp, at Rithm At Uptown. The building replaces what was the J.C. Penney in the former University Mall.
Courtesy. An interior rendering of the planned 215,000-square-foot, mixed-use office building, named Base Camp, at Rithm At Uptown. The building replaces what was the J.C. Penney in the former University Mall.
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Real estate executive Chris Bowen knows what the former University Mall site in Tampa isn’t going to be when the massive transformation of the property is complete. It won’t be a mall, for sure. It won’t even be a lifestyle center, following a path several developers have taken to reimagine the traditional enclosed shopping center. 

 

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