Downtown redevelopment is the big story in Temple Terrace, the city within the city of Tampa. City leaders closed on a monumental deal with Vlass Temple Terrace LLC in 2009 that sets the stage for a new Main Street and a mixture of office, retail, restaurant and residential uses in the city’s downtown.
Traffic violence statistics are numbers no one wants to carry around on the tips of their tongues. But for bicycle and pedestrian safety advocates in the Tampa Bay area, knowing those numbers and understanding the stories behind them is fundamental to shaping a future that ceases to claim lives on city streets and county roads.
TiE Tampa Bay is holding a Startup Pitch Festival that offers global exposure to winners.
Junior Achievement is expanding its footprint in Tampa with a new facility planned for eighth graders.
CareerSource offers free job training for young people who missed out on post-secondary training, putting them on the fast track.
A Brandon company has reformulated a Trinidadian sprain remedy -- and is looking to USF to help prove it works.
A new app created by the Hillsborough MPO is designed to encourage Tampa Bay area residents to identify problem areas that create unsafe experiences for drivers, bicyclists and/or pedestrians.
Vision Zero Workshops are designed to engage community members in a strategy for creating safer streets for everyone sharing the road -- bicycle riders, walkers, joggers, drivers.
Checkers & Rally’s Restaurant Inc. is poised for expansion with its new innovative designs enabling franchise holders to build new locations more quickly and cheaply. One design allows them to reuse shipping containers from overseas.
Local schools are re-emphasizing training for skilled labor jobs to meet the demands of a rebounding manufacturing industry. More than 4,000 jobs are now available in the Tampa Bay region.
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