Tampa Premium Outlets opened in 2015 in Wesley Chapel as Simon Property Group’s first Premium Outlets property in the northern Tampa metro corridor, positioned at Interstate 75 and State Road 56 to capture the rapidly growing Pasco County residential catchment and the I-75 tourist and snowbird corridor between the Orlando resort market and the Gulf Coast. The approximately 390,000 square foot Simon Premium Outlets property brought the full Simon network brand configuration to a market that had previously lacked a premium outlet centre within the immediate Tampa metro northern corridor.
The outlet register follows the Simon Premium Outlets pattern, with brands such as Coach, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Polo Ralph Lauren, Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, and Columbia forming the core premium and performance tiers alongside accessible fashion labels across the full Simon outlet brand suite. The property also benefits from its co-location in the Wesley Chapel commercial corridor alongside The Shops at Wiregrass, creating a destination retail cluster in Pasco County that has no equivalent at this scale anywhere north of the Tampa city limits.
The I-75 and SR-56 position serves the Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills, Dade City, and Land O’Lakes residential communities of Pasco County alongside the northbound I-75 corridor from Tampa. The Pasco County catchment of approximately 600,000 residents, growing steadily through new residential development, provides a permanent consumer base that supplements the tourist and snowbird traffic the I-75 corridor generates year-round.
For brands evaluating the Tampa Bay northern suburban outlet market, Tampa Premium Outlets is the Simon-network entry point for the Pasco County residential catchment and the I-75 northern corridor, a market that was structurally underserved by outlet retail before 2015 and that now supports two major lifestyle retail properties within the same Wesley Chapel corridor.
