Strategic Property Partners Breaks Ground on JW Marriott Hotel at Water Street Tampa Development

TAMPA, FLA. — Strategic Property Partners (SPP) has broken ground on the 519-room JW Marriott Tampa hotel within its planned Water Street Tampa development. The $3 billion mixed-use project is a multi-phase, 50-acre development that at full build-out will include more than 9 million square feet of commercial, residential, hospitality, educational, entertainment, cultural and retail space. JW Marriott Tampa represents the first of 10 buildings that SPP plans to begin building over the next year. Designed by Florida-based architecture firm Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates, JW Marriott Tampa will feature 100,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including the largest hotel ballroom in Tampa Bay at approximately 30,000 square feet. The hotel will also feature a full-service spa and fitness center, pool and sun terrace, ground-floor restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating and a rooftop lounge and terrace on the 26th floor. The hotel is located adjacent to the Tampa Convention Center and Amalie Arena, home to the National Hockey League’s Tampa Bay Lightning, which is owned by SPP head Jeff Vinik. JW Marriott Tampa will be one of three hotels within the Water Street Tampa development. Earlier this month, SPP unveiled plans to develop the 173-room EDITION Hotel. In addition, SPP is renovating the 727-room Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina, located adjacent to JW Marriott Tampa. Together, the properties will create the largest collection of hotel rooms and meeting space in Tampa Bay, with 1,246 rooms and 150,000 square feet of meeting and event space. SPP began renovating the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina in the fall of 2017, and expects to wrap up construction this year. The JW Marriott Tampa is expected to open in fall 2020.