Expressway authority to sell land to Vinik-Cascade group for $2.75 million

TAMPA — After six months of negotiations, the Tampa Hills­borough Expressway Authority agreed Monday to sell about two-thirds of an acre to Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Cascade Investment for $2.75 million.

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Jeff Vinik’s Strategic Property Partners (SPP) has completed another land transaction for approximately 2/3 of an acre for $2.75 million.  The deal was with the Expressway Authority and allows the street system to be realigned to better enhance the traffic flow of the area.

 

Vertica Partners had represented SPP on all previous land acquisitions for the $2 billion project backed by Bill Gates’ development company, Cascade Development LLC.

Downtowns rising across Florida

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Jeff Vinik’s $2 billion mixed-use development project backed by Bill Gates’ Cascade Development LLC is a large scale example of how downtowns throughout Florida are undergoing massive transformations.

 

Vertica Partners principals T. Sean Lance and Max Boehmer exclusively represented Vinik’s Strategic Property Partners in the acquisition of the land surrounding Amalie Arena for this game changer of a project for the Tampa community.

The Sun Belt Is Rising Again, New Census Numbers Show | Newgeography.com

To look ahead to where America will be growing in the future, perhaps the best indicator is net domestic migration. This measures where people are moving, essentially taking their skills, purchasing power and capital with them. Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth enjoyed the largest net gains from domestic migration, roughly 60,000 each, from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2015, followed by Phoenix, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Atlanta and Austin. The Sun Belt, once written off as doomed by the urbanist punditry, is clearly back.

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To look ahead to where America will be growing in the future, perhaps the best indicator is net domestic migration. This measures where people are moving, essentially taking their skills, purchasing power and capital with them. Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth enjoyed the largest net gains from domestic migration, roughly 60,000 each, from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2015, followed by Phoenix, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Atlanta and Austin. The Sun Belt, once written off as doomed by the urbanist punditry, is clearly back.

Home Values in 20 Cities Continue to Surge in January

Year-over-year, the value of existing single-family homes in these cities from the 20-City Composite posted the largest gains:

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The Tampa Bay market continues to perform at an extremely high level on many fronts.  The year-over-year value of existing single-family homes rose 7.4% behind only typical headline cities such as Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver and Dallas.

Have a look inside the 1-million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Ruskin

RUSKIN — There’s enough steel inside to build the Eiffel Tower — twice. If all the conveyor belts inside were laid out in a straight line, they would stretch farther than 10 miles. Hundreds of robots — including self driving vehicles — scoot around inside.

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The Amazon fullfillment center in the surburban area of has more than doubled its workforce, from 1,000 full-time employees to more than 2,500 since September of 2014.

 

This increase in workers has been a boon for apartment owners and retail in the surrounding submarkets including the I-75/Crosstown area of Brandon.