Expert: No extended downturn for downtown

Stantec Vice President David Dixon says the pandemic can't stop the transformation of Tampa's urban core.


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File. Urban planning expert David Dixon says companies that prize innovation will want to bring remote workers back into the office.
File. Urban planning expert David Dixon says companies that prize innovation will want to bring remote workers back into the office.
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Will the COVID-19 crisis bring to a halt the transformation of Tampa’s downtown core into a highly desirable live-work-play neighborhood? Not necessarily, says David Dixon, vice president of Stantec, an urban planning and development group involved in Jeff Vinik’s ambitious, $3 billion Water Street Tampa project, which will result in an entirely new mixed-use neighborhood in the Channelside area just east of downtown Tampa. 

Courtesy. Stantec Vice President David Dixon.
Courtesy. Stantec Vice President David Dixon.

 

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