A rooftop bar and the city’s best spa are among the highlights of the JW Marriott Tampa Water Street, the first true five-star hotel to open in Tampa, Florida ahead of Super Bowl LV – designed by NBWW By Terry Ward I usually find it kind of disorienting to stay at a hotel in the same city where I live. No matter how indulgent the thread count, it can be hard to feel truly transported when the place I receive…

The hotel originally designed by NBWW, closed in March to renovate its 408 guest rooms. By Matthew Arrojas The 408-room W South Beach hotel is set to emerge from an eight-month renovation on Nov. 18. The hotel at 2201 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach closed in March for a $30 million renovation that refreshed all of the hotel’s guest rooms and created the new Away Spa. The hotel had 354 rooms before the renovation. The W South Beach originally opened…

Miami Worldcenter  appears to have broken ground on a multi-level retail building described as a “jewelry box” by its architect, NBWW. The new retail building is known as Miami Worldcenter Block F-East and is being built next to the under-construction CitizenM Hotel. It will have 78,264 square feet of retail, with a total building size of 135,208 square feet. City records show that a construction permit has already been approved and pulled by contractors. It will include two floors of…

The majority of hotels that have been experiencing a 20-30 occupancy rate, are rushing to rehire staff and additional workers solely due to the Super Bowl. By Veronica Brezina-Smith Weeks from now, Super Bowl LV will be hosted in Tampa Bay, and hoteliers are ramping up operations to handle the incoming surge of guests. ..The newly opened JW Marriott Tampa Water Street was part of the bid and is the headquarter hotel for the majority of the NFL’s operational team….

A twin-tower project called Waves Dania Beach with a combined 760 residential units has been approved. Waves will include two towers, 90 Wave and 70 Wave, with: 380 residences in each tower for a combined 760 units 19,700 square feet of ground floor commercial space, for a combined 39,400 square feet 651,388 square feet of total space in each tower Nearly 1,400 parking spaces spread over two levels Dania Beach’s City Commission approved the project on January 12. The Dania…