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Tampa Museum of Art

A City of Tampa building permit describes an addition to the Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plz, with a new public lobby and cafe, an auditorium and event spaces on the second floor and rooftop.

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
Kind of place
Cafe

Where

120 W Gasparilla Plz
Tampa, FL 33602

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

The evidence

PermitTypeFiledStatus
BLD-24-0505757 Commercial New Construction and Additions Dec. 18, 2023 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.

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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