The Chihuly Collecton, owned by the Morean Arts Center, will hold a grand opening April 4 of its new retail store. The reconfigured and redesigned space will offer more Chihuly-brand merchandise as well as new inventories of jewelry, artisanal soaps and pottery. A rotating gallery will display glasswork from artists around the country as well as focusing on more Florida artists.
Trader Joe's opens its first Tampa grocery store with a day of celebration featuring food demonstrations, live music and a balloon artist. The store opens in a former Shapes gym on Swann Avenue.
Andrew Bonnemort opens a second restaurant, Cry Baby Cafe, on Harbour Island across the street from his first -- Cafe Dufrain. Cry Baby serves organic, fresh foods and fair trade coffee made especially for the cafe.
Seattle native Jessica Glover opens her Jet City Espresso in Seminole Heights, a revitalized neighborhood she believes is ready for a Seattle-style coffee house with natural organic foods and fresh coffee.
Walmart opens a Neighborhood Market in proximity to a Largo neighborhood that U.S. Department of Agriculture considers a "food desert" with limited access to affordable and nutritious foods.
Kindermint, a Tampa Bay-based online retailer of children's clothing, seeks to solve a pain point for working parents nationwide.
When Red Star Rock Bar opens with its own brand of classic rock, art and fashion, it will join a growing list of shops and dining choices staking a claim in Tampa's trendy Seminole Heights neighborhood.
A University of South Florida graduate student originally from Colombia creates a company that aims to help save both indigenous tribes and the environment.
Sunny Side Up is the creation of former Memphis chefs and caterers Marci and Chuck Goldstein. They serve Southern spiced breakfast and lunch made from scratch with local produce in the tiny restaurant on Polk Street, just around the corner from Tampa Theatre.
Tempo is the fourth but probably not the last apartment building to have a groundbreaking at Encore, the $425 million mixed income housing and retail project being built by the Tampa Housing Authority and Bank of America. The 203-unit multifamily apartment complex will open in 2015.
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