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Dutch Bros Coffee

A City of Tampa building permit describes a new 950 sq ft Dutch Bros Coffee drive-through on E Fowler Ave. A related permit covers demolishing an existing fast-food restaurant.

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

What we spotted

Activity
New place
Category
Eat & drink
Kind of place
Coffee shop

Where

1507 E Fowler Ave
Tampa, FL 33612

City of Tampa neighborhood: University Square. Open in a map

The evidence

PermitTypeFiledStatus
BLD-26-0521152 Commercial New Construction and Additions Dec. 11, 2025 Revision
BDE-25-0444897 Supporting Commercial Demolition Permit July 31, 2025 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. Supporting permits are other permits for the same project: at the same address and naming the same place, citing one another, or covering another phase of the same building.

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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