Go HART!

The Tampa Bay region is making progress toward integrating plans for high-speed rail, commuter rail, air travel and bus service. But first it needed to improve its bus and streetcar system and the agency that coordinates all of it recently won an award from the state for those efforts. Efficiency, effectiveness, customer service, financial management are just some of the areas of achievement that have earned Hillsborough Area Regional Transit, known as HART, the title of Outstanding Transit System by the Florida Public Transportation Association.

Musical Promises Wonder

Wonderland, a musical produced in Tampa, will be a big economic boost for the Tampa Bay region and could tour nationally.

Tampa Encourages Green Business

Tampa in partnership with the Sustany Foundation, released its Green Business Designation Program to recognize businesses that are already being environmentally sensitive and to spur other businesses to participate in the program.

All Aboard: Rail Gains Momentum

Test Kitchen Heats Up

Pinellas County teams with a company to offer a test kitchen for entrepreneurs to try out their food service ideas.

Maria Filardi

Though living in Downtown Baltimore has many entertainment and shopping Perks, for Maria Filardi it is the people that make this urban, metropolitan neighborhood great.

Sam Hulbert

A 23-year resident of Downtown, Sam Hulbert says he wouldn't trade living there for a life in the suburbs -- and not just because he never has to mow the lawn.

Lisa Ponzoli

 Two years after opening up shop in Federal Hill, Lisa Ponzoli has become so taken with the neighborhood that she's moved her entire life - business and home - there. "Everyone is really cool," she says of what attracts her to the neighborhood.

Tom Gregory

A Federal Hill resident for 30 years, Tom Gregory has seen the neighborhood develop from a quite residential area to the historically hip neighborhood it is today.