Real Tampa Bay (@realtampabay)

Buildings are just buildings. Let’s fill em with cool people doing dope stuff. #realtampabay #redevelopment #tampa

Water Street is about to be covered in half a million Christmas lights. In Tampa. In November. Season Spectacular is back Thursday, November 12, 5–9pm — and it’s free. Over 200,000 more lights than last year, 131 wrapped trees, and a 12-foot moose. I don’t know why there’s a moose. I just know I…

Tampa, we need more nights like this. 👻 Whispers After Dark brought a little New Orleans to Water Street Tampa tonight, with eerie music, fortune tellers and roaming characters turning the neighborhood into a Halloween experience. And the outdoor event was free. This is the part of Tampa’s growth…

3 new spots are headed to Water Street.
 Ayu Bottega is a new shop from Ayu Skin, the facial studio in SoHo. It’ll sell clean beauty and lifestyle products and offer Italian-style facials. It opens in November, right next to Pura Vida Miami.
 Sirena City Haus is Sydney Boright’s second boutique…

Some say it’s busy. I say it’s activated. Water Street Tampa feels different than a lot of other parts of the city, and other cities too. Do you agree? It’s a pocket neighborhood designed around pedestrians: wide sidewalks, shade trees, ground-floor retail, and something for everybody within a…

Lakewood Ranch just got a country club for the rest of us. Life Time Lakewood Ranch opens on Oct 12, at 4 a.m. I got a sneak peek, and the size is hard to believe. 86,000 sq ft club, 180,000+ sq ft with the beach club and pickleball 14 pickleball courts (3 indoor, 11 outdoor, some covered). 100+…

The Riverwalk is changing, again. With the recent ground breaking of the 1st of Related Groups Billion dollar investment, it poses the question, will this work? Now alongside the 1200+ apartments/condos that they’re building, we have Pendry going up, One Tampa going up and the West side…

As if the @flytpa wasn’t already the best airport in the country, now it’s just getting better. Phoebe will be so happy to hear. Expansion is in place to create room for up to 10 million more passengers a year. That’s a a lot of people, but if they keep operating how they are now, it’ll be just…

This doesn’t have to be the end of The Mirasol’s story. 🏛️ A demolition permit has been filed for the Davis Islands landmark. That filing alone does NOT mean demolition is approved, scheduled or underway. Davis Islands began with a vision. A century later, the conversation is about what its next…

Sarasota’s prettiest workout studio humbled this dad bod. 🥵😂 We tried @BODY , newly opened at UTC, and don’t let the gorgeous space fool you. You’re going to WORK. Every finish, every light, every piece of equipment feels intentional. Then you get into a room that’s almost 100 degrees, the music…

Chromeo played in the middle of Water Street tonight. Free to get in. Dinner, ice cream, local artists out, kids running around, people dancing in the street. Every direction you looked, somebody was having a good time. We talk a lot about development in this city. Nights like this are the payoff…

Hey! Wanna go sit under this loud ass bridge with me tonight? St. Pete wants to turn the space under I-275 into a 12 acre linear park. $55 million, paths, green space, public art. But FDOT still controls the land and the funding isn’t assembled yet. Here’s my take: don’t just give it turf and…

RTB turns 1 (kind of) 365 days ago today we committed to executing on this idea that I thought could drum up a little business for us shooting houses. It has blossomed and morphed into so much more 😂 Today there are over 10,000 of you on IG and close to 40k of you on all platforms. That’s just…

I got invited to the reveal of the penthouse and new renderings coming to @hoteloraprivateresidences and what a special event. Met some really awesome people doing amazing work across the Tampa Bay Area. Headline unit is at $24.5M and it’s the penthouse which is almost 10,000 square feet. Looks…

Free Pilates in the middle of Water Street! Be Well series by BodyRock Tampa turned the plaza into a full class, shaded, yet somehow felt like we were in a hot Pilates studio. Being surrounded by the buildings, the trees, the greenery, it felt like its own little neighborhood pocket. More of…

I need your help. I want to do a series but until this came on my feed I was pretty stuck. I think this would be great for us. If we grow and become better, so does the city, so do our neighborhoods. Starting this business and starting this page has been hella rewarding but I know I’ve got more…

Drilled the first test pilings for Beachmaker on Madeira Beach. Before they pour anything they have to test the ground and custom manufacture every piling to match exactly what it takes to hold up this beautiful resort. This is how you rebuild after a season of storms that greatly impacted this…