The 2701 S. MacDill Avenue building is located three blocks north of Bay to Bay and three blocks to the west of Bayshore Boulevard at the southwest corner of Barcelona Street and South MacDill Avenue in the Palma Ceia neighborhood of South Tampa. The space offered for lease is currently improved and operated as an upscale art gallery and framing business by a well-known local gallery operator who is relocating his gallery at the end of the lease term in May 2025. The property was improved by Michael Murphy Gallery in 2002 and has been operated as a single-tenant building for many years. The building can be subdivided into more than one suite, as it was when it was built in 1955.
Palma Ceia Park was originally platted in 1907, and development in the area boomed in the 1920’s and then after World War Two in the 1950’s. Much of the street retail development in the area occurred in the 1950’s and the Palma Ceia area has continued to be a preferred neighborhood in South Tampa due to good schools, low crime,
The immediate area has seen a boom in commercial and residential condominium development with the recent completion of Tower One of the Ritz Carlton development at Bayshore Boulevard and Santiago Street, the Counter Culture Restaurant and The Altura on Bay to Bay at Ysabella and the Three Oaks Project which is redeveloping the former Datz site across the street from the property offered for Lease at the northeast corner of Barcelona Street and MacDill Avenue.