Investor goes back to school with $6M project.

Tampa-based commercial real estate investor Bobby Soroory is going back to school. Sort of.

Soroory recently paid $3.5 million for the University Inn, at the foot of the University of Tampa campus in downtown Tampa. He plans to spend at least $2.5 million to renovate the property into 56 apartment units while also keeping his eye on a long-term redevelopment project there. Soroory, 36, earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tampa in 2010 and a master’s in finance in 2011.