280-unit Beach Park apartments proposed
Developer Northwood Ravin plans a 280-unit apartment project at Beach Park that would replace an aging office park owned by Drs. Kiran and Pallavi Patel. The project filing signals new residential density in a Tampa neighborhood and was reported by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. (x.com) (x.com)
Northwood Ravin has filed plans for an 11-story apartment project at 5600 Mariner Street in Tampa’s Beach Park, replacing an aging office park with 280 units. (bizjournals.com) The filing calls for 280 apartments above about 6,000 square feet of commercial and office space on the waterfront site. Northwood Ravin is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is now listed as the developer on the proposal. (bizjournals.com) The property is owned by Drs. Kiran and Pallavi Patel, who have held it since 2003. Public records and business filings tie the Mariner Street address to the Patels’ family office. (appraisaldevelopment.com) (bizapedia.com) The address sits in Beach Park, a South Tampa neighborhood on the edge of the Westshore business district, where office land has increasingly been eyed for housing. Another Beach Park rental project, Novel Beach Park, opened the door for nearly 289 apartments nearby. (crescentcommunities.com) This Mariner Street site has been in play before. Earlier project materials from Woodfield Development described a 275-unit, seven-story apartment plan at the same address, showing the parcel had already been moving away from office use before Northwood Ravin stepped in. (woodfielddevelopment.net) More recent construction listings still describe “The Mariner” at 5600 Mariner Street as a 275-unit project, with work underway in 2024 and a partial certificate of occupancy issued in March 2025. The new filing suggests the site’s development program has been revised upward to 280 units and 11 stories. (bldup.com) (bizjournals.com) The parcel’s current land use is listed as office building, and third-party property records identify zoning tied to office park use. That makes the apartment filing a notable shift for a waterfront tract in a neighborhood better known for single-family homes, condos, and midrise projects near the bay. (loopnet.com) (homes.com) Northwood Ravin already has a growing footprint in Tampa. The company says it manages more than 10,000 apartments across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, and it has pursued other Tampa multifamily projects, including a 385-unit plan in the Westshore business district. (nwrliving.com) (crenews.com) What happens next will turn on city review and permitting. For now, the filing puts one of Beach Park’s older office properties back at the center of Tampa’s shift toward more rental housing near Westshore jobs and the bay. (tampa.gov) (bizjournals.com)
