{"id":348742,"date":"2026-07-22T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:26:58","slug":"metlife-completes-32-acre-metwest-development-in-westshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348742\/","title":{"rendered":"MetLife completes 32-acre MetWest development in Westshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MetLife Investment Management completed the 32-acre MetWest International development Wednesday with the opening of Emerald at MetWest, a 375-unit apartment community in Tampa\u2019s Westshore <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/category\/business-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"16\" title=\"business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a> District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developed with ZOM Living, Emerald includes an eight-story apartment building with 3,300 square feet of ground-floor <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/retail-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Retail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retail<\/a>. The project completes a mixed-use campus with 1 million square feet of Class A office space, more than 56,000 square feet of retail and <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/restaurants\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"27\" title=\"Restaurants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restaurants<\/a> and the AC Hotel by Marriott <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/category\/tampa-international-airport\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Tampa International Airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Airport<\/a>. Amenities include coworking space, a fitness center, a resort-style pool, bike and paddleboard storage and a dog park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development sits next to International Plaza and Bay Street, placing apartments within walking distance of offices, restaurants and retail and minutes from Tampa International Airport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/images-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Rendering of Emerald at MetWest, a 375-unit apartment community completing the MetWest mixed-use development in Tampa's Westshore district.\" class=\"wp-image-92055\"  \/>Emerald at MetWest adds 375 apartments, completing the 32-acre MetWest mixed-use development in Westshore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith the completion of Emerald, MetWest International has evolved from its beginnings as a MetLife operations center into a mixed-use destination positioned to support the Tampa Bay community for decades to come,\u201d Scott Sandberg, senior director of asset management at MetLife Investment Management, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Jane Castor said the apartments complete the development\u2019s original vision of combining housing, jobs and services in one location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is exactly the kind of connected, mixed-use development we envisioned for Westshore, where people can live close to where they work, shop and gather,\u201d Castor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MetLife Investment Management manages $736.3 billion in assets and has operated in Westshore for more than 50 years. MetWest began as a MetLife operations center before expanding into a mixed-use development with offices, apartments, retail, restaurants and a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>  Read More Tampa Bay Business News<\/p>\n<p>\n    Explore the latest Tampa Bay business news, real estate deals, development projects, executive moves and company updates shaping the region.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetLife Investment Management completed the 32-acre MetWest International development Wednesday with the opening of Emerald at MetWest, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-348742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}