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 Jim Stinson
| 5:00 a.m. October 27, 2023
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A rendering of Casa Gomez, a five-story office building with a rooftop restaurant that Ybor City developer Darryl Shaw will soon open.

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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.