Gentrification starting soon in Tampa/Ybor area? (Seminole: real estate, homes)

[thethinktank]

This is another reason I dig South Tampa so much. It's so developed that this candy corn nonsense won't happen south of Kennedy and east of Dale Mabry. This garbage planned community and its future residents might as well move to Disney World.

Don't have a genuine identity of your own? No problem. Move to Encore!! Try not to kick those you've displaced on your way in.

[DoctorRain]

Originally Posted by TB Fla

You probably saw ENCORE! - Downtown's Tempo District

It looks like this is already built. No buildings were up, just banners on the barrier/fence area. Nothing built though and it was kinda near that old Churchs restaurant thats abandoned where there are churches. Its on the way to downtown, but not exactly in downtown.

[DoctorRain]

Originally Posted by Residenthere

I am Under the same impression has you, Hopefully once they get this up and going it'll help Ybor regain some of it's former glory and some of the Riff Raff will go away.

I know the riff raff up there is a problem.

I think all in all, Tampa has potential. It has a nice looking skyline too which some cities do not have. I may not be living in Tampa down the road, but I do think with more developments in the Ybor/Downtown tunnel, it can be even nicer and could join Portland as a place more people move in droves to. It has a bit to go, but thats surely a start.

[craigm1841]

Originally Posted by thethinktank

Don't have a genuine identity of your own? No problem. Move to Encore!!

are you serious?

[tewas]

You can't have one housing community to have young professionals and low income families living together. As sad as it is, higher class don't want to live next to the lover class. On the other hand i don't feel like listening babies crying, kids running or unemployed people hanging around early morning/evening when I'm at home trying to relax after day of work. Once they let lower income people to come in, the professionals will move away to the communities where they don't have to deal with such non sense.

[algia]

Exactly, especially with the paper thin walls they like to build here with!


I will never understand why everything has to be "planned" in Florida,...and why this state has to turn into "cookie cutter" world! (condo's, homes...as if all the building styles have been erased from the books! even million dollar homes by the beach have the same "Mediterranean" architecture, (Minus Tarpon, hope they don't mess with it) yet the Mediterranean SEA is nowhere in sight! and oddly enough, no two homes are the same There BY the Mediterranean Sea!)

Originally Posted by tewas

You can't have one housing community to have young professionals and low income families living together. As sad as it is, higher class don't want to live next to the lover class. On the other hand i don't feel like listening babies crying, kids running or unemployed people hanging around early morning/evening when I'm at home trying to relax after day of work. Once they let lower income people to come in, the professionals will move away to the communities where they don't have to deal with such non sense.

[ferret111]

Originally Posted by DoctorRain

It looks like this is already built. No buildings were up, just banners on the barrier/fence area. Nothing built though and it was kinda near that old Churchs restaurant thats abandoned where there are churches. Its on the way to downtown, but not exactly in downtown.

Yeah, you're talking about Encore. It's slightly southwest of the abandoned Church's Chicken and across from the Tampa Park projects.

[TB Fla]

Originally Posted by algia

Exactly, especially with the paper thin walls they like to build here with!


I will never understand why everything has to be "planned" in Florida,...and why this state has to turn into "cookie cutter" world! (condo's, homes...as if all the building styles have been erased from the books! even million dollar homes by the beach have the same "Mediterranean" architecture, (Minus Tarpon, hope they don't mess with it) yet the Mediterranean SEA is nowhere in sight! and oddly enough, no two homes are the same There BY the Mediterranean Sea!)

Do you really think Florida is the only state to have planned communities? Other cities, even cities like New York built stuff like this. You previously complained that Tampa doesn't build enough Downtown. This proves that they are, and you still have a problem with it.

I don't see why people have a problem with this. A planned community built for everyone to enjoy featuring parks, stores businesses, and residences, or a large empty lot almost a quarter the size of downtown sitting vacant. If a young professional wants to live cheap in downtown before being able to live afford a nicer condo, they now have a place to do so. I, like everyone else, sees that there needs to be more stuff like this downtown, but at least I don't nitpick every project that comes along.

[craigm1841]

Originally Posted by algia

Exactly, especially with the paper thin walls they like to build here with!

algia

You think this is only here? Yes... Tampa decided they were gonna have paper thin walls, but the rest of the country and world has awesome walls.

Do you prefer chinese walls?

Or you can go to haiti... they dont have walls. They are living in tents.

Or you can go to Rwanda, they dont need walls, they are all dead from mass murders and genocide.

You can go to the middle east, they have cement walls, but they are blowing them all up.

You can go to detroit, I dont know what kind of walls they have, but bullets go through them pretty easily I presume.


Come on... Tons of places all over this country and world have paper thin walls. This is not location specific. jeez Dont turn your wall qualms into a tampa thing.

[algia]

"Planned Communities" are a disease/disorder as far as I am concerned and Unfortunately I am aware they are everywhere in the US nowadays, However the "concept" wasn't bad, what's bad is that every house is the same........you can "plan" a community and at the same time give it character!
It really makes me wonder what is being taught in an Architecture class!

The other thing I am also "aware of" is that the reason "planned communities" even exist is because some "person" bought some "land" and figured if they'll chop it up they can make a profit by selling every lot for 10 times more than the original piece of land cost in the first place! Too bad ppl bought into this! Now, we're a bunch of Storm Troopers and next we're going to have personal uniforms to wear to match our homes!

Originally Posted by TB Fla

Do you really think Florida is the only state to have planned communities? Other cities, even cities like New York built stuff like this. You previously complained that Tampa doesn't build enough Downtown. This proves that they are, and you still have a problem with it.