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Exclusive: Austin Center, Westshore’s original office park, will be reborn as a cool walkable campus
The owner of Westshore’s original office park has revealed a renovation plan that will transform the property into a cool, walkable…
Circa 1975 Office Buildings On Westshore To Be Transformed
TAMPA, FL — New restaurants, retail shops, office space along with a fresh, new look are in store for a group of circa 1975 office…
Clearwater’s Heritage Insurance announces move, expansion to West Shore
Heritage Insurance, a homeowners insurance company started in Tampa Bay, announced Tuesday that it’s moving its headquarters from…
A Heritage Play
Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. will relocate its corporate headquarters and as many as 400 employees to Tampa’s Westshore City Center…
Exclusive: First Watch is coming to Westshore
The developer of Westshore City Center has signed a deal with Florida breakfast-and-brunch chain First Watch. Westshore City Center— the…
First Watch, a popular Tampa brunch spot, joins massive Westshore City Center development
Get ready for tall stacks of pancakes, Westshore, because First Watch is set to be the first restaurant to open at Westshore City Center…
Union New American, a 2-floor dining experience, will open at Westshore City Center
Jeff Gigante, the visionary restaurateur who has delivered some of the most tantalizing and celebrated restaurants in the entire region,…
Tampa Real Estate Maven Andrew Wright Buys Downtown St. Pete’s Hotel Indigo
A Tampa real estate firm has acquired Hotel Indigo in downtown St. Petersburg and plans to transform the property into the boutique…
Best Real Estate Deals: Westshore City Center is a Top Reuse/Rehab Project
Many projects have been imagined on the site of the former Austin Center in the Westshore business district — but Tampa real estate…
Commercial Real Estate Finding and Funding
In this edition of the Catalyst Partner Series, we’re joined by Steve Stagg, Beach Bank’s Tampa Bay market president, and special guest…
The Exchange Hotel now open in downtown St. Pete
A new boutique hotel is now open in downtown St. Petersburg. The Exchange Hotel, formerly known as the Hotel Indigo, features 76 guest…
Behind the deal: How Paradise Ventures and Andrew Wright plan to polish St. Pete’s Sundial
The Sundial in downtown St. Petersburg has been on and off the market for years, but Mike Connor wasn’t interested until last summer. It…
Mixed-use, 14-story Apartment Tower Could Rise On Former AAA Property in Westshore
A Tampa developer is proposing to build hundreds of apartments and a large restaurant on the Westshore property that was previously home…
Power 100: Andrew Wright, CEO and founder of Franklin Street, managing partner of Ally Capital Group
Andrew Wright is best known as the founder of Franklin Street, but the real estate executive has expanded his reach in recent years….
Fit2Run and Exchange Hotel sites to be redeveloped
The Kolter Group and the Ally Capital Group are planning to demolish the Fit2Run and Exchange Hotel in St. Petersburg and redevelop the…
14-story apartment tower in Westshore gets preliminary approval from Tampa City Council
A mixed-use development with twin apartment towers and a street-level restaurant has received preliminary approval from Tampa City…
Ally Capital Group acquires Clearwater office portfolio
Bay Vista Gardens I and II, a flex five-building office portfolio in Clearwater, has sold to Tampa’s Ally Capital Group for $18 million….
Ally Capital Group Spends $18M for Five-Building Office Collection in Clearwater
Tampa, FL-based Ally Capital Group has completed its $18-million ($133 per square foot) acquisition of Bay Vista Gardens I & II, a…
Economic Outlook: Tampa Bay’s economic resiliency may temper recession impact
Tampa Bay’s economic resiliency may temper recession impact; massive buying opportunities for 2024 and beyond. Andrew Wright is the…
Power 100: Meet Tampa Bay’s most influential leaders of 2023
The Tampa Bay Business Journal has named the 2023 Power 100, a guide to the region’s most influential business leaders. The list is…
New owners of the Sundial in St. Pete announce plans to upgrade
The Sundial — a dining and shopping destination in downtown St. Petersburg — is set to be redeveloped this year. Ally Capital Group, a…
Sundial’s owners unveil a new vision for the downtown St. Pete mainstay
The owners of St. Petersburg’s Sundial have unveiled a new vision for the open-air center in downtown St. Petersburg — one that ditches…
‘Extension of the community’: Upgrades planned for The Sundial in downtown St. Pete
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Tampa-based real estate firm Ally Capital Group and the St. Petersburg-based firm Paradise Ventures released…
UPDATED: First look at reimagined mixed-use Sundial (RENDERINGS)
Ally Capital Group, a Tampa-based real estate investment firm, and Paradise Ventures, a St. Petersburg-based real estate firm, have…
Sundial developers say they have interest from national tenants
The vision two Tampa Bay developers have for St. Petersburg’s Sundial is attracting interest from national, name-brand tenants — though…
Union New American, a 2-floor dining experience, opens this April in Tampa
Transforming a vital piece of property in Tampa Tampa-based Ally Capital Group acquired Westshore City Center in early 2019 and selected…
Long-awaited Union New American to open in Westshore
Union New American, a new restaurant from Next Level Brands, has set an opening date in Tampa’s Westshore business district. The…
Tampa investor buys Westshore’s Urban Centre office complex for $123 million
Tampa real estate maven Andrew Wright’s Ally Capital Group has acquired the Urban Centre, an office complex in the heart of the Westshore…
Tampa’s Urban Centre Sold for $123Mln
Tampa Bay Business Journal Ally Capital Group has paid $123 million, or about $223.69/sf, for Urban Centre, a 549,869-square-foot office…
Urban Centre in Tampa Acquired for $123 million
Urban Centre, located in the Tampa, Florida submarket of Westshore, has been sold Tampa-based real estate firm Ally Capital for $123…
Ally Capital Pays $123M for Tampa Office Complex
Ally Capital Group has paid $123 million for Urban Centre, a two-building office complex totaling 548,054 square feet in Tampa, Fla.,…
And finally, a big number: $123 million
The price Ally Capital Group paid to acquire the Urban Centre, an office complex in the heart of the Westshore business district. View…
Ally Capital buys the Urban Centre
Tampa real estate investor Andrew Wright’s Ally Capital Group has acquired the Urban Centre, an office complex in the heart of Westshore….
Development team files plans for Exchange Hotel site
New renderings and details have surfaced on plans for an apartment complex that will rise at the site of the Exchange Hotel. Tampa-based…
Tampa developer proposes 28-story apartment tower in downtown St. Pete
Tampa-based Ally Capital Group has filed plans to build a 28-story apartment tower in downtown St. Petersburg. Ally Capital intends to…
Redevelopment of Exchange Hotel moves forward
The Exchange Hotel, located at 234 3rd. Avenue N., has served as a hotel in the city for decades, but it is not a historic structure;…
St. Petersburg gives the green light to more than 400 new apartment units
28-story tower at Exchange Hotel site Tampa-based Ally Capital Group plans to build a 28-story tower at the site of the Exchange Hotel in…
Exclusive: Forbici Modern Italian is coming to downtown St. Pete
Forbici Modern Italian, a staple of the South Tampa dining scene, has signed a deal to open in The Sundial, a mixed-use development near…
Exclusive: Sundial owner says the addition of Forbici will ‘elevate the experience’ of the property
With the announcement of Forbici Modern Italian coming to Sundial, in St. Petersburg, the owners of Sundial, Paradise Ventures, say it…
Forbici, a celebrated Italian restaurant, will open at Sundial St. Pete
Forbici is one of the top spots in all of Tampa for fine Italian cuisine — and Next Level Brands has confirmed that the restaurant will…
Tampa Italian restaurant Forbici will open new second location in St. Pete’s Sundial
For the first time in several years, a new hospitality concept is headed to downtown St. Pete’s Sundial mall at 153 2nd Ave. N. According…
Hyde Park’s Forbici heads to downtown St. Pete
The ownership group behind Forbici Modern Italian has announced plans to bring a unique concept to a reimagined Sundial plaza in the…
Forbici Modern Italian is coming to downtown St. Petersburg
A taste of Tampa is coming to St. Petersburg, with a plan for a second location of Forbici Modern Italian to open downtown. The popular…
Forbici Modern Italian is coming to Sundial in downtown St. Pete
One of Tampa’s most heralded Italian restaurants is opening an expansive new St. Pete outpost next year. The fan favorite Forbici will…
Forbici Modern Italian is coming to downtown St. Petersburg
A taste of Tampa is coming to St. Petersburg, with a plan for a second location of Forbici Modern Italian to open downtown. The popular…
Ellison, Alfonso and Capitano families purchase historic Ybor building for $9.25 million
Three major Tampa Bay players in construction, development and design have, together, acquired a building in Ybor City. The building,…