Tampa: Sun, Water, Manatees

Tampa has range. Downtown buzz. Ybor grit. Gulf-blue calm an hour west. It’s a city learning how to grow—layering new ideas onto deep roots. More than 45,000 each year move into Tampa each year.

Getting here is easy. Choosing where to land takes more thought. You want proximity without chaos. Access without the daily grind. That’s North Tampa: close to USF and the medical district, removed from the bumper-to-bumper.

Canopy Walk sits in the middle of Tampa’s next chapter. As the city builds upward and outward, this pocket stays relaxed. A place to come home to after a day around the bay.

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About Tampa

  • Tampa sits on Tampa Bay. Water nearby. City first. Beaches optional.

  • Size that works. About 390,000 in the city. Roughly 3.2 million across the metro.

  • Well mixed. Nearly 1 in 5 residents were born outside the U.S. Culture shows up in food, music, and neighborhoods.

  • Built on work. Ybor City once made Tampa the cigar capital of the world. At it.s peak, more than 500 million cigars were hand-rolled a year.

  • Designed for outdoors. More than 240 sunny days a year. Porches, sidewalks, and patios get used.

  • Long walks: At 4.5 miles, Bayshore Boulevard boasts the longest continuous sidewalk in the U.S. Good for spotting lazing manatees

  • Not just tourism. Healthcare, logistics, finance, defense, and tech anchor the economy.

  • Strong opinions, especially about sandwiches. Tampa claims the original Cuban, with a controversial twist: sandwiches include salami.

  • A Piece of Cuba in Tampa: Jose Marti Park is legally sovereign Cuban land. It was gifted to the Cuban people in 1956. If you step inside, you are technically on Cuban soil.