Superbowl 2021 (Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando: how much, hotels, construction)

[ma5cmpb]

Is Tampa ready to host the Superbowl this season?

I know there are a lot of construction projects going on, are they almost complete?

[NYmikef]

It's a football game. If the NFL is playing football games this year I'm sure Tampa can handle it.


It's not like the Olympics are coming ;-)

[ma5cmpb]

Originally Posted by NYmikef

It's a football game. If the NFL is playing football games this year I'm sure Tampa can handle it.


It's not like the Olympics are coming ;-)

Its a lot more than a football game. Hotels, Security etc

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/us/mi...ges/index.html

[boy3365]

It's not Tampa's first Super Bowl, and they successfully hosted the College Football Playoff National Championship in January 2017. Virus issues aside, I believe they will be fine.

[Ghengis]

Very hard, probably impossible...Orlando could pull it off easy enough tho.

[TakingItEasy]

Only the virus knows the answer to that.

If the virus says it's okay, the city has already hosted several big games and has the hotels, airport, etc. No brainer otherwise and kind of a stupid question to ask.

[HeadedWest2020]

Hopefully the season will happen.

[theurbanfiles]

I’ll echo what other posters have said: Tampa is much more equipped to put on a better super bowl week/weekend than the one they put on the previous 3 times they have already hosted, given the presence of the waterfront, etc now. Construction on Water St, etc hasn’t stopped, if anything it seems to have accelerated. And smaller markets (Indianapolis, Jacksonville) have hosted the Super Bowl even in recent times, and still been successful, so no, that shouldn’t be an issue.

The only primary issues will be these:
Is the Super Bowl still going to go forward (or NFL season in general) when they say it is?
How much of a dampener effect will COVID have on it, if a vaccine isn’t present by the end of the year (unfortunately-the answer to this-is, potentially huge)... but then that would be the fault of COVID-19 keeping crowds away, and not the fault of the City of Tampa itself.

[ma5cmpb]

Originally Posted by cavsfan137

I’ll echo what other posters have said: Tampa is much more equipped to put on a better super bowl week/weekend than the one they put on the previous 3 times they have already hosted, given the presence of the waterfront, etc now. Construction on Water St, etc hasn’t stopped, if anything it seems to have accelerated. And smaller markets (Indianapolis, Jacksonville) have hosted the Super Bowl even in recent times, and still been successful, so no, that shouldn’t be an issue.

The only primary issues will be these:
Is the Super Bowl still going to go forward (or NFL season in general) when they say it is?
How much of a dampener effect will COVID have on it, if a vaccine isn’t present by the end of the year (unfortunately-the answer to this-is, potentially huge)... but then that would be the fault of COVID-19 keeping crowds away, and not the fault of the City of Tampa itself.

Thanks. This was the answer i was looking for, I know that they had a lot of construction projects that were to finished before the superbowl and was wondering if covid affected the projects.

Sorry for the stupid thread.

[MortonR]

Originally Posted by ma5cmpb

Thanks. This was the answer i was looking for, I know that they had a lot of construction projects that were to finished before the superbowl and was wondering if covid affected the projects.

Sorry for the stupid thread.

Not stupid, your questions are valid.

As others have stated, there is a LOT of construction going on downtown that's trying to get done before the Super Bowl. I work downtown, and while I'm not there a great deal now, I have noticed when I've been there that if anything, the construction activity has increased, and not slowed down.

RM