Tampa's Westshore District Live Cam
Experience the region’s largest commercial office district
Early Landscape and Land Reclamation
Before concrete towers and bustling office parks defined Westshore, the area lay as a mosaic of low-lying wetlands, pine flatwoods, and extensive citrus groves. Small creeks and natural drainage swales channeled seasonal rains toward Hillsborough Bay, while native palmetto and wiregrass communities carpeted the sandy soils. Early 20th‑century maps show the present-day Westshore footprint as largely unsettled, with only a handful of farmsteads and a rudimentary network of dirt roads penetrating inland from the bayfront.
