Talk:Tampa/@comment-2603:9000:DD0E:56E1:ED2F:C331:6C7E:43B7-20191203041044

Two landmarks of note in Tampa. Amalie Arena is near the waterfront, albeit unmarked, for obvious reasons. But the architecture is unmistakable.

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is also nearby in-game. The real-life version connects St. Petersburg with Bradenton, in Manatee County, and thus doesn't go near Tampa proper. Chalk it up to geographic license, for a game map this huge.

But it's a creepy bridge:  the original was heavily damaged when it was hit by the MV Summit Venture in 1980, and 35 passengers on the roadway were killed. So they built a new bridge, the current one, to replace it, and turned the old approaches into fishing piers.

Some claim the bridge is haunted, and not just by the victims of the Summit Venture collision. The main spans are 430 feet above the water at their highest, and, as you might expect, there are crisis telephones near the apex of both real-world spans. Those telephones, mercifully, are NOT depicted in-game.