The City of Tampa is collaborating with Bloomberg Associates and the National Association of City Transportation Officials to launch innovative "quick build" mobility projects that improve safety and accessibility for cyclists and pedestrians quickly and on a limited budget. 

Tampa Bay's February arts scene includes painter Stephanie Ong's exhibit  "Scaffolding" in Tampa, "The Stories They Tell: Indigenous Art and the Photography of Edward S. Curtis" at The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, an exhibit of the work of contemporary Black artists at the St. Petersburg Warehouse Arts District and much more.  

Danny Gallagher, the recycling coordinator for Hillsborough County, was inspired to protect the environment in the fourth grade. Today, at 27, he oversees a program recycling 10 million tons a month. 

The 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Festival invades Tampa this Saturday with pro wrestling legend "Nature Boy" Ric Flair as grand marshal of the Parade of Pirates.

Tampa's newly launched Green Team program and Pinellas County's Adopt-a-Drain initiative are two examples of local governments in Tampa Bay turning to the community for help with environmental stewardship.

Tampa's Stageworks Theatre now owns its theater space thanks to a donation from Grand Central at Kennedy developer Mercury Advisors. 

The Tampa Hillsborough Express Way Authority (THEA) has an online survey up through January 27th to get public input on ideas for a future park at the Bay to Bay Boulevard underpass of the Selmon Expressway.

Since opening near downtown in 2021, the University of Tampa's Ferman Center for the Arts has emerged as an artistic hub for students, faculty and arts lovers. 

The Tampa Bay History Center's Florida Conversations series featured retired Judge Emiliano Jose “E.J.” Salcines, Jr. talking about Cuban revolutionary José Martí's time in Tampa in January and anthropologist Lisa Armstrong's talk on the historic Black Tampa communities of Carver City and Lincoln Gardens in February.

Health tech innovation event Disrupt the Bay returns for a fourth year on February 4th at the Tampa Marriott Water Street.