The University of Tampa recently announced that it was adding a new Student Health Center as well as another academic building. It’s all part of accommodating a campus that has now reached an enrollment of 6,300.
And yet it was barely two decades ago that expansion and new construction were hardly agenda items at a struggling UT — one with an enrollment well below 2,000. It fact, there was renewed speculation about UT as a downtown campus for USF.
The rest, of course, is history. A thriving private university in Tampa is a critical catalytic element in downtown’s ongoing revitalization.