Developer: As Seminole Heights transforms, growing pains are inevitable (Video)

Tuesday morning was a bit emotional for Wesley Burdette.

The Tampa developer and his family celebrated the opening of the Warehouse Lofts, a 54-unit apartment building in Seminole Heights — his first multifamily project. Burdette had worked in mortgage banking in Washington, D.C., and then flipped houses in Seminole Heights before developing the Warehouse Lofts.

“I could have cried up there,” Burdette said after the ribbon cutting. “This is different [from flipping houses] because of the bigger… …read more