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Straz Center for the Performing Arts

A City of Tampa building permit describes a 39,744 sq ft addition and 50,000 sq ft of renovation at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N Wc Macinnes Pl. A related permit covers an earlier phase of site and foundation work.

Building permits describe planned work. They don’t guarantee that a business will open or when.

What we spotted

Activity
Expansion
Category
Things to do

Where

1010 N Wc Macinnes Pl
Tampa, FL 33602

City of Tampa neighborhood: Downtown River Arts. Open in a map

The evidence

PermitTypeFiledStatus
BLD-24-0511121 Commercial New Construction and Additions Aug. 25, 2024 Revision
BLD-24-0510724 Supporting Commercial New Construction and Additions Aug. 6, 2024 Issued

Permit numbers link to each record on the City of Tampa’s permitting site. Status is as the City listed it on Sept. 25, 2026. Supporting permits are other permits for the same project: at the same address and naming the same place, citing one another, or covering another phase of the same building.

When we spotted it

This permit was already active when Tampa Thinks started watching City permits on Sept. 25, 2026. We found it in the existing permits. That isn’t when it was filed, and it doesn’t make it new.

What this means

A building permit is the City’s record of planned construction work. It doesn’t mean a business will open, and it doesn’t say when. Plans change, tenants change, and some permitted work is never finished.

The sentence above is written from the permit’s details by fixed rules. Where the permit leaves something out, such as the tenant, we say so rather than guess. We don’t republish the permit’s own text. How Spotted works.

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