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AC Hotel and Moxy Channelside

A City of Tampa building permit describes foundations for a new 13-story dual-brand hotel, AC Hotel and Moxy Channelside, on N Meridian Ave.

Building permits describe planned work. They don’t guarantee that a business will open or when.

What we spotted

Activity
New place
Category
Hotels
Kind of place
Hotel

Where

111 N Meridian Ave
Tampa, FL 33602

City of Tampa neighborhood: Channel District. Open in a map

The evidence

PermitTypeFiledStatus
BLD-26-0522091 Commercial New Construction and Additions Jan. 26, 2026 Issued

Permit numbers link to each record on the City of Tampa’s permitting site. Status is as the City listed it on Sept. 25, 2026.

When we spotted it

This permit was already active when Tampa Thinks started watching City permits on Sept. 25, 2026. We found it in the existing permits. That isn’t when it was filed, and it doesn’t make it new.

What this means

A building permit is the City’s record of planned construction work. It doesn’t mean a business will open, and it doesn’t say when. Plans change, tenants change, and some permitted work is never finished.

The sentence above is written from the permit’s details by fixed rules. Where the permit leaves something out, such as the tenant, we say so rather than guess. We don’t republish the permit’s own text. How Spotted works.

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