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JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
Tampa, Florida, United States · JW Marriott · Core Luxury
Jeff Vinik's Strategic Property Partners spent years assembling 50 acres of parking-lot waterfront south of Tampa's convention district. JW Marriott opened in 2020 at 510 Water Street as the 519-room anchor of Water Street Tampa, facing Garrison Channel beside Amalie Arena, a new neighborhood built from scratch.
- 519 rooms
- Opened 2020
- Neighborhood: Channel District
About JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
- The sixth floor holds two pools, private cabanas, and SiX on Six, a restaurant looking over downtown Tampa.
- Nearly 100,000 square feet of event space makes it one of Water Street Tampa's largest gathering rooms.
- Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park is across the street; the Florida Aquarium is a twelve-minute walk.
History
Tampa's waterfront south of the convention district had long been an underutilized asset — a stretch of Garrison Channel frontage and surface parking that separated the Amalie Arena sports complex from the water without contributing much to the urban experience. Strategic Property Partners, backed by investor Jeff Vinik, began acquiring land in the area after 2014 with an ambition that went far beyond a single real estate project: to develop a new mixed-use neighborhood from scratch on 50 acres of underperforming downtown waterfront, creating what became known as Water Street Tampa.
The development attracted Marriott as its luxury hotel anchor, and the JW Marriott Tampa Water Street was built as a purpose-designed new tower at 510 Water Street, opening in 2020 as the 519-room flagship address of the new district. The building faces the Garrison Channel directly, with water views from upgraded rooms and a positioning that places guests at the center of Tampa's most ambitious urban transformation. Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park lies across the street, the Amalie Arena is adjacent, and the development's restaurants, offices, and residential towers form the immediate neighborhood.
The hotel's amenities — a spa, three restaurants, a coffee shop, a bar, a rooftop pool, and a hot tub — were designed to serve both the hotel's guests and the Water Street Tampa community more broadly. The rooftop pool, with its views of the Garrison Channel and Tampa Bay beyond, became one of the defining social spaces of the new development. Twelve minutes on foot to the Florida Aquarium and ten miles from Busch Gardens, the hotel serves both the leisure traveler and the convention and corporate visitor whose meetings bring them to the adjacent convention complex.
The JW Marriott Tampa Water Street holds AAA Four Diamond status and represents a rare opportunity: a newly constructed luxury hotel that is simultaneously an anchor of a neighborhood and a witness to that neighborhood's ongoing creation. In a city that has spent decades trying to reclaim its waterfront from industrial and automotive uses, the hotel's position directly facing the Garrison Channel is both a literal and symbolic fulfillment of Tampa's most consistent urban aspiration.
The setting
2 miles from Interstate 275.
Restaurants and bars
- SiX Tampa — Restaurant · New American
- Driftlight Steakhouse — Restaurant · Steak house
- Beacon Tampa Rooftop Lounge — Restaurant
- Turntable — Restaurant · Hamburger
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Recommended (2026)
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