Westshore is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Tampa with average asking rent around $36/sqft/yr.
Legacy suburban Class A spine. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: $36/sqft/yr
Westshore is Tampa's deepest legacy Class A market — anchored by insurance, banking back-office, and corporate HQ tenancy along Westshore Boulevard near Tampa International.
Insurance (Citi, BofA back-office), professional services, healthcare HQs.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
HART bus; car-dependent.
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
International Plaza, WestShore Plaza, Tampa International Airport.
Westshore is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Tampa, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around $36/sqft/yr. Compared with the broader Tampa Class A stock, Westshore typically attracts Insurance (Citi, BofA back-office), professional services, healthcare HQs and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Westshore: Downtown, Water Street Tampa, The Heights / Tampa Heights, I-75 Corridor (Brandon / Riverview). The full Tampa submarket atlas is at /cities/tampa.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Westshore, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Tampa Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
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