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Tahitian Inn

A City of Tampa building permit filed after the fact describes interior renovations at the existing Tahitian Inn hotel at 601 S Dale Mabry Hwy, including guest rooms. After-the-fact permits cover work that began before it was permitted.

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

What we spotted

Activity
Remodel
Category
Hotels
Kind of place
Hotel
Filed
After the work began

Where

601 S Dale Mabry Hwy
Tampa, FL 33609

City of Tampa neighborhood: Swann Estates. Open in a map

The evidence

PermitTypeFiledStatus
BLD-25-0518656 Commercial Building Alterations (Renovations) Sept. 12, 2025 Revision

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

This permit describes work at a place. A building permit is the City’s record of planned construction; it doesn’t say when the work will finish, and some permitted work is never done.

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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