First look: Renderings of downtown Tampa’s newest apartments

Downtown Tampa’s newest apartment complex is under way.

Richman Group, based in Connecticut, has started construction on the Aurora, a five-story 351-unit apartment project at 124 S. Morgan St., just north of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.

Richman closed on the site — an assemblage of roughly 4 acres bordered by South Morgan Street to the west, East Whiting Street to the north and South Jefferson Street to the east — in July, paying $11 million for the dirt. The construction costs have been… …read more