Florida Bank Rebounds As Leader In Industry
While dozens of local Florida banks folded during the recent recession, Florida Bank rose like a phoenix from the ashes. The Tampa-based bank is considered a turnaround success thanks in […]
While dozens of local Florida banks folded during the recent recession, Florida Bank rose like a phoenix from the ashes. The Tampa-based bank is considered a turnaround success thanks in […]
Hembree Construction will complete work on a Centra Care Florida Hospital Urgent Care clinic in June. The clinic is on North Dale Mabry on the former site of a gas station and convenience store.
For Ron Harjani, the 2015 opening of a Walmart Super Center is the reason he opted to build a 10,000-square-foot building to house his family-operated women's clothing shop, Fashion Essence. Developers also are looking to build a 25,000 square foot building for a regional chain store.
Lakewood Ranch is adding new businesses to Main Street and elsewhere in the master-planned community in Manatee and Sarasota counties. Michelle Scala and Shepherd Frenchman are adding second dentistry in the MGA insurance building on Enterprise Circle. A culinary school and optometry office are opening on Main Street.
A new Middle Eastern restaurant - Petra - will open on Kennedy Boulevard in a two-story building across from the University of Tampa's lacrosse field.
A popular Clearwater pizza restaurant is now open in a former bar in Ybor City. Award-winning architect Elliott Wheeler did the re-design including a unique brick coal-fired oven for cooking pizzas.
Five new residential towers will add 1,500 apartments in Downtown Tampa in the next two to three years, creating the synergy necessary to attract investors eager to help develop a vibrant urban scene that attracts young professionals, global travelers and empty-nesters.
A love of African culture led Sita Monti to establish LivAfrika, the first Fair Trade Federation certified retail business in Tampa. She sells authentic, handcrafted African jewelry and other items at the South Tampa shop.
Volunteers with the Current of Tampa Bay's Laundry Project visit laundromats around Florida handing out quarters to more than 1,200 low-income families otherwise spending a healthy chunk of their wages doing more than 12,000 loads of laundry in the past year.
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