Spring Hill is uniquely defined as having one of the most diverse populations in Hernando County. Over the past 10 years, a large number of young professionals and families have relocated to the area in response to competitive real estate prices, an overall lower cost of living and the completion of the Suncoast Parkway, providing fast, easy access to the metropolitan Tampa area. As a result of this population surge, several new shopping centers, specialty stores and restaurants have launched in Spring Hill with further construction underway.
The Chinsegut Hill Historic Site in Hernando County has witnessed Florida and national history from prehistoric people through the Civil War and Emancipation to the women's suffrage movement and the Great Depression.
Regional food bank Feeding Tampa Bay has started construction on a nearly 220,000-square-foot new facility to grow its warehouse capacity and its community impact.
Visitors to Florida and local residents will soon be able to explore a Civil War-era plantation near Brooksville when Chinsegut Hill reopens thanks to a new partnership between the Tampa Bay History Center and Hernando County.
“The average farmer is in the range of 60 to 70 years old, and eventually as time goes on, we will need younger people to step in,” says Arie Fry, a UF student studying agriculture. “By the year 2050, the world is projected to have 10 billion people, so how do you feed everybody? We need more farmers, and that demand for farmers is already here.”
Ag researchers are studying pests, funguses, climate change, and other challenges that farmers face on a daily basis. All of these threaten the economic balance of the farm industry, the financial situation for individual farmers, and the food we all put on our tables every day.
Florida has about 47,000 commercial farms occupying over 9.45 million acres. Among the state's biggest crops? Cucumbers, grapefruit, oranges, squash, sugarcane, and fresh market snap beans and tomatoes.
Talking forks. Robots on patrol. Driverless buses. As technology continues to revolutionize our world, such innovative ideas are not as far away from the Tampa Bay Area as you might think.
When it comes to a problem as big as sea level rise, which could destroy up to $161 billion of economic activity across the Tampa Bay region by 2060, good corporate citizens can’t afford to simply watch from the sidelines. Read Part 2 of a 2-part series.
New housing communities in Wesley Chapel and Hudson are targeting millennials and other entry-level homebuyers.
Planner Brady Smith cites the City of Tampa vulnerability analysis as an “example of regional leadership” that other communities may want to follow going forward. The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council also held a series of “Peril of Flood” workshops over the last year, as another.
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