Look inside Cora, Water Avenue Tampa’s new high-rise condo constructing, now pre-let

One other high-rise tower is making ready to welcome new residents to downtown Tampa.

Cora, the second residential constructing to open within the Water Avenue Tampa growth, introduced it had began pre-renting residences on Wednesday and can be prepared to maneuver in by September.

The 23-story tower situated at 1011 E Cumberland Ave. has 338 items priced at $ 1,650 monthly for a 451 sq. foot one bed room studio; at $ 5,185 for a 1,534 sq. foot unit with three bedrooms and three loos.

At round $ 3.50 per sq. foot, these costs are nicely above the common price of $ 1.41 per sq. foot in Tampa Bay, which in 2021 noticed the very best price of progress in asking rents of all metropolitan areas of the nation. However they’re in keeping with different downtown properties, together with Heron, Water Avenue’s premier residential advanced, which started welcoming residents this spring and is at the moment 83 % leased.

“That is excessive in the event you examine it to the general stock,” stated Brian Alford, Florida market evaluation director for CoStar Group, a nationwide actual property information firm. “However in the event you examine it to the deliveries we have seen, which have been a ton, in downtown Tampa for the previous few years, that is fairly per most of them.”

New facilities corresponding to parks, workplace buildings and different developments on the horizon have stored rental costs in downtown Tampa excessive, even regardless of the pandemic.

“Particularly round Channelside and Water Avenue, the town middle has actually been the hub of a number of the exercise that has taken place, and that has actually pushed a number of rents,” Alford stated. “Lots of manufacturers should have rents excessive sufficient to justify the development prices of the final 4 or 5 years. “

A press release from developer Strategic Property Companions in regards to the Cora touted the constructing’s ‘curvaceous’ structure, “that includes signature curves and gentle edges that mimic shapes created by water and are paying homage to ships, providing a nod to Tampa’s historical past as a port and transport hub. “

Cora’s facilities will embrace a library, health middle, indoor and outside terraces, communal and outside kitchens, and a ‘swim spa’. It can have a 24-hour concierge and recycling room on every ground and 13,000 sq. ft of retail house on the ground.

Residents and guests can be taught a brand new phrase from Cora: Woonerf, a Dutch time period that means “residential courtyard” which describes an outside house designed for social life. Situated outdoors the foyer, Cora’s woonerf is “designed to create a shared house the place pedestrians, cyclists and drivers coexist in a sidewalk-free setting,” the assertion from Strategic Property Companions reads.

“The constructing brings a singular Artwork Deco and Modernist affect paying homage to Florida’s architectural historical past and nautical roots,” stated Lee Schaffler, portfolio supervisor of Strategic Property Companions, in an announcement.

The $ 3.5 Water Avenue growth is led by Jeff Vinik, proprietor of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Cascade Funding, owned by Invoice Gates. Vinik is a accomplice in an funding group that has loaned $ 15 million to Occasions Publishing Co., proprietor of the Tampa Bay Occasions.