1,000 runners in a 5K race will get a sneak peek from atop the new I-4/Crosstown Connector on December 28 before the $425 million road and bridge project opens to traffic. The Connector is designed to divert truck traffic off local streets in downtown Tampa and Ybor City.
USF Health begins construction on a Heart Institute, $50 million, five-story, 100,000-square-foot facility designed as a "one-stop shop" for research into diagnostics and treatments for heart disease and related diseases of stroke, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Creative Director Tracy Midulla Reller is moving her art gallery, Tempus Projects, to a new Seminole Heights' location that offers more opportunities for exhibits from a range of artists in all mediums including painting, sculpture, video, multimedia and performance art.
Tampa is seeking development proposals for a hotel and multi-family apartments on vacant land in Ybor City. The projects will boost the historic "Cigar City" neighborhood's economy and create jobs. Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn says he will do whatever it takes to stimulate redevelopment in Ybor and Tampa.
Kent Bailey is following his dream and his passion for home-brewing craft beers. As of November he gave up his law practice. By March he plans to open Coppertail Brewing Co. on Second Avenue in East Ybor, delivering the first bottles of Coppertail beer to area bars, restaurants and grocery stores.
Renovation underway at the Homer Hesterly National Guard Armory on North Howard in West Tampa is jumpstarting economic development in the neighborhood by attracting additonal investors interested in situating their businesses near the planned Jewish Community Center.
Bus riders in Pinellas County will be able to access improved services and full bathroom facilities at the new transfer station being built in Pinellas Park.
Emmanuel Roux, a former restaurateur and farm kid from France now living in St. Petersburg, looks at the city's poorest neighborhoods and envisions an Urban Food Park that could grow healthy foods, teach preparation skills from farm to table and feed the hungry. His longtime dream is getting closer to reality.
Our Partners
