Innovation – Big bills left in the shipping container I LOVE the history of the shipping container. Nothing could be more confounding to our usual ideas about innovation, stagnation, and technology. Imagine for a moment that you’re standing on the docks at a major port in the early 1950s. You see some evidence of technological […] Read more
The case for infrastructure spending, compelling and a little scary, invest our way to growth … Difference Engine: A member too few BY ALL accounts, the four-lane bridge over the River Skagit in Washington state, along Interstate 5 between Seattle and the Canadian border, was in pretty good shape for a 58-year-old structure. It had […] Read more
Local Infrastructure Cooperation, they’re talking … Tampa Bay ports and airports seek ways to cooperate Mergers of the Tampa Port Authority and Port Manatee, or Tampa International Airport and the St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport aren’t likely to happen anytime soon. Probably never. But there could be more cooperation between these Tampa Bay transportation agencies and economic development engines, […] Read more
The Tampa Bay Economy continues to recover, Local hiring up 2 percent month over month, report says A new report by Simply Hired suggests hiring ticked up slightly in May. Month over month, hiring in Tampa and St. Petersburg was up by 2 percent and year over year by 29.2 percent, according to the search […] Read more
If you know a child who struggles in school and then falls further back during the summer, you can imagine how much greater the struggle is in the fall, it may feel hopeless. This is a significant problem for our youth and for our future. We’d like to share a great opportunity from one of […] Read more
With three runways and 18.9 million passengers in 2016, Tampa International Airport is served by major domestic and international airlines offering direct and connecting flights to all points of the globe including 87 non-stop routes.
This airport is publicly owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Authority. It has been praised for its architecture and Landside/Airside design of a central terminal (“landside”) connected by people movers to satellite gates (“airsides”), a pioneering concept when designed in the late 1960s and still a model for airport design today. The airport was called Drew Field Municipal Airport until 1952.
