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Brandon, FL
Brandon sits directly east of downtown Tampa along the Interstate 75 and State Road 60 corridors, and it's grown substantially over the past several decades from a smaller agricultural community into one of the larger unincorporated suburban areas in the entire Tampa Bay region. Westfield Brandon, one of the larger enclosed shopping malls in the Tampa Bay area, anchors a substantial commercial corridor that's made Brandon a significant regional retail destination, drawing shoppers from across eastern Hillsborough County rather than serving purely as a residential bedroom community. The area's rapid postwar and late-20th-century growth has made it one of the more demographically diverse suburbs in the Tampa Bay region, with substantial new residential development continuing to fill in the corridor between Tampa and the more rural areas further east. Brandon's combination of significant regional retail anchored by Westfield Brandon and sustained decades-long suburban growth has made it one of the larger and more commercially significant unincorporated communities anywhere in the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan area.
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Apollo Beach, FL
Apollo Beach sits on Tampa Bay south of the city, developed substantially around an extensive network of man-made canals that give a large share of the community's homes direct boat access to the bay, a waterfront-lot density unusual for a suburb this close to a major metro area's core. The community sits directly adjacent to the Tampa Electric Company's Big Bend Power Station, whose warm water discharge canal has become an unlikely wildlife attraction — manatees gather there by the hundreds during winter months, drawn to the artificially warmed water, and the utility company has built a public manatee viewing center specifically to accommodate visitors drawn to the seasonal gathering. Apollo Beach's canal-front development pattern has made it a particularly popular choice for boating enthusiasts specifically seeking direct water access from their own property, a lifestyle draw distinct from the more inland, golf-course-oriented planned communities found elsewhere in the Tampa suburbs. Apollo Beach's combination of extensive canal-front boating access and its unexpected role as a major winter manatee gathering site has made it one of the more distinctively waterfront-oriented suburbs anywhere in the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan area.
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