This City Is One Of The Fastest Growing In The Country 

Let's not sleep on Tampa. We've got billions of dollars worth of development currently in the planning stages. Many buildings about to go vertical. I'm aware of almost 20 high rise buildings going up in the downtown area within the next year or so, and many more within the next five to ten years. It's an exciting time for both cities. People are flocking to the Tampa Bay area in droves.

Excellent video! St Pete is exploding and you captured the growth extremely well

What’s causing this boom in construction?

St. Pete's growth is actually stagnant because many of the quads and duplexes around the city that housed multiple people were bought up by rich people and now only have a single family living in them. All of the growth in the Tampa Bay metro is coming from Hillsborough and Pasco. St. Pete is densifying which is great but its not growing faster than Tampa by any means at most the development is happening at the same rate. Outside of downtown there's not a whole lot of major developments happening in Pinellas, maybe Carillon, but otherwise nothing. Meanwhile Tampa has multiple large scale projects in the works at varying degrees like Water Street, Gasworx, Midtown, Uptown, Tampa Heights-YMCA redevelopment and none of that includes the various projects in Bayshore, downtown CBD, NOHO, West River, Encore etc. I love St. Pete, I live in Mirror Lake but the growth of the 2 cities is very different, Tampa is densifying multiple sections of the city which all seem to be converging on Downtown while St. Pete is densifying downtown and and slowly working its way outward. This gives St. Pete a much better downtown but makes the rest of the city suburban trash.