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Entertainment Center Startup Delayed Again in Tampa, Florida.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 1995 by Norris, Kim

TAMPA, Fla.--May 21--The start date on the often-delayed entertainment center on the downtown Tampa waterfront has been delayed again. In a letter to the Tampa Port Authority, which owns the proposed site, the project's developers said Friday they now plan to break ground in January and complete the first phase in December 1996.

That is at least the fourth start date suggested for the project, which in four years has undergone at least four incarnations.

What started as a 12,000-seat amphitheater has evolved into a technology- driven urban entertainment center with a 5,000-seat concert hall.

In a somewhat surprising disclosure, the letter indicates the partnership between the project's developers, Germany-based Deuteron Entertainment Development...

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