Crews reach top of 31-story downtown Tampa tower

About 57 weeks after a ceremonial groundbreaking kicked off the construction of the long-awaited Arts and Entertainment Residences in downtown Tampa, crews have topped out the 31-story tower.

The top was reached June 30 — just a month after the one-year anniversary of the May 26, 2022, official start of the project. (Crews for Coastal Construction were already drilling the deep foundations and preparing to install the pile caps at the time the city officials showed up with their shovels and photographers.)

AER is a luxury tower being built at 300 W. Tyler Ave. It's sandwiched on two sides between the parking garage for the Glazer Children’s Museum and the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, and the Hillsborough River and the John F. Germany Library branch on the other two sides.