City of Tampa Florida

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Famous for its Cuban Sandwich

Location	-	Downtown Tampa
Features	-	Channelside, Florida Aquarium, Bayshore Boulevard, Tampa Bay Convention Center, Harbor Island, St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa Theatre
Activities	-	Concerts, Exhibits, Parades, Gasparilla, Sightseeing, Walking, Biking
Parking	-	Metered & Garage Parking
Kid Friendly	-	Yes
Map It	-	Get Map & Directions
Address	-	100 North Franklin Street, Tampa Florida 33602
Phone	-	813-274-8615
Extras	-	Trolley & Streetcar Rides
Conditions Now	-	Fair, and 77°

Downtown Tampa

It is Downtown Tampa, with its beautiful cityscape. And with Tampa's warm tropical climate, you can enjoy the great outdoors year-round.

It is the City of Tampa, with its progressive downtown, scenic waterfront views, and vibrant cityscape. It is a uniquely evolving city with a strong focus on being the utmost desirable place to live, work, and play. This area has plenty of culture, is outgoing with its year round activities, and has so many places to go, sights to see, and things to do.

University of Tampa

Be sure to check out the city's educational hub, the University of Tampa. This university is hard to miss with its unique style and location off the banks of the Hillsborough River, which winds its way through to the north. You can watch the rowing team's oars power gracefully along the river.

Henry B. Plant Museum

Part of the historic 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, this setting is the perfect spot for Henry B. Plant Museum. The museum transports you through time with educational exhibits and events focused on late Victorian period, the early years of the City of Tampa.

Points of Interest

Intermixed around downtown Tampa you will find various cultural points of interest, Harbor Island, Florida Aquarium, Tampa Museum of Art, and the Tampa Performing Arts Center. The St. Pete Times Forum (yes in Tampa) hosts the NHL Lightning and top national concerts.

Outside Fun

A must see outside venue, Bayshore Boulevard Linear Park is a wonderful 4.5-mile long waterfront scenic sidewalk leading into downtown Tampa It is proclaimed as of the world's longest sidewalk. This is the place where the locals go for jogging, walking, and rollerblading. The waterfront, historic homes, and people watching make this a top Tampa to do.

Tampa Convention Center

The Tampa Convention Center is a huge convention and marketing venue located in downtown Tampa. The Center hosts a wide range of exhibits, trade shows, corporate gathering, and special events. Its waterfront location is near the Channelside,, St. Pete Times Forum, Florida Aquarium, and Harbor Island, plus lots neat restaurants and nightclubs.

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It is easy to get around, as a transportation system moves people between downtown and local dining, shopping, and entertainment destinations.

Not only beautiful, Tampa offers lots of interesting cultural, educational, and other entertaining experiences to its residents and guests.

As the economic hub of both Hillsborough County and the greater Tampa Bay region, the city has a vibrant downtown business district.

City leaders and planners have done a great job with the improvement and reconstruction of the beautiful Hillsborough River waterfront areas. The motto goes, "Opening the River to the People".

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Tampa in Forbes

Did you see that article in Forbes where they ranked forty major cities and how well young professionals do in that particular city? Tampa did not do very well in many categories, for instance, a recent college graduate in Tampa earns nearly three percent than the national average. The cost of living was not good either, coming in last with the lowest salary to cost of living. That is a problem, and the exclusive living in south Tampa probably does not help.

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Lowry Park Zoo

A great family outing, Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo offers thousands of animals, housed in lush and natural habitats. Kids will love the unique interactive experiences as you can feed giraffe, stingrays, and lorikeets, and take a ride on a big camel or pony.

Light Rail System

Apparently, Tampa is getting a little closer to adding light rail to ad the mass transit system. Atlanta has had the MARTA system for twenty years, so it is about time. The transit manager was on talking about regional goals, and creating a unified vision for all. The new vision will focus on reducing traffic over the next 10 years and 20 years beyond. Governor Criss signed into law a seven county focus to help the vision, of reducing traffic. Congestion is getting worse for sure. Over the last fifteen the travel time has increased 115%. The seven counties elect a member and the vision board will be created. So it is all just starting, but nothing has happened yet.

Russell Davis, Ybor City

Hotel Floridian

What's New in Tampa - Great news for downtown Tampa, as the Hotel Floridian is finally being renovated. Just saw a Fox News report outlining the history and future of the hotel. They are using a guy that is about 90 years old "Gus", and he is pointing out the details. The renovation is designed to bring back the hotel to the same style and condition as it was in 1926.

Davis Island on Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Watching TV tonight I ran across the Tate's, who had a airplane crash into their Davis Island house. So now Ty and the home improvement gang brought their TV show to improve their slice of real estate on Davis Island Florida. They had no insurance and the jet fuel just exploded on the home. Extreme Makeover Home Edition has come to the rescue right here in South Tampa. The Tate's got lucky, as they rolled in on their RV down Bayshore Boulevard and woke them up with the blow horn. While they fixed up the real estate, they went to costa rica on vacation. What a nice episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The Tate's and Tate's Pizza will never be the same. Great show, giving Davis Island a lot of publicity.

Tracy Hudson, South Tampa

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Tampa Events

The Grape Gatsby

A nice wine tasting fundraiser, with food, fun, silent auctions, and more. Put on to benefit the restoration of the Historic Tampa Theatre. Address: 711 North Franklin Street, Link: web, Phone: 813-274-8286.

Anime hits the Convention Center

The animated comic and film genre hits downtown tampa with its convention center hit, Metrocon. This is the state's largest anime convention, coming to tampa this weekend. They are having video games, costume contests, and a giant chess match using real people. The chess match is anime vs. video games. For details see metroconventions.com, and arrive early as big crowds are expect. Downtown parking is plentiful.

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Area Sports Stadiums

Legends Field

Tampa's Legends Field is the spring training home of the New York Yankees and home to the Florida State League, Tampa Yankees. Legends Field is centrally located in Tampa and is only three miles from the airport. The park is directly across from Raymond James Stadium, home of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Raymond James Stadium

Raymond James Stadium (formerly Tampa Stadium) is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, University of South Florida Bulls, and the Outback Bowl, as well as concerts and special events. The stadium is known for its modern style and comfort, exampled by armchair theatre seats with cup holders in all sections. The stadium seats more than 65,000 for football games, with the capability to grow to 75,000 for concerts. For USF games, the lower half of the stadium allows for a capacity of 41,000. Raymond James also features two huge video TVs for close-ups and replays. Raymond James Stadium is affectionately known to locals as Ray Jay.

St. Pete Times Forum

Located in the heart of Tampa's dynamic downtown Channelside District, the 20,000-seat St. Pete Times Forum is situated waterfront, on the Garrison Channel. It's close to the Florida Aquarium, Harbor Island, and the Tampa Convention Center. Come down to the Forum, where the NHL Lightning stars bravely combat their NHL opponents on the ice. This is a top notch venue, used for major concerts, boxing, football, basketball, ice dancing, and more.

The Times Forum is scheduled to play host to some of the top college events in the nation during the next several years, including the NCAA Women's Final Four in 2008, the first and second round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in 2008, the Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Championship in 2009, the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship in 2009 and the NCAA Frozen Four in 2012.

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