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USA Today finds foodie heaven in Tampa Bay http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_tampabay/~3/hz6D7shVrCU/usa-today-finds-foodie-heaven-in-tampa-bay.html  

Crowd Funding Closes the Gap

While efforts to retrain workforce and grow new businesses are necessary there is a huge gap in our preparation of the workforce of tomorrow.  The statistics are crushing.  In a time when our entire workforce needs to improve their skills to face the challenges of the new technological age, we are letting skill sets atrophy […] Read more

Good News Friday

Personally I’m betting on the “Real Economy”… This week’s Friday Market Insight from Bob Bach at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.    Day of Reckoning? The recent run-up in interest rates – the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note ended Thursday at 2.41%, its highest level since October 27, 2011 – caused a stampede of […] Read more

Port of Tampa is another “real” major gateway & economic driver.

We are the West Port of Florida, maybe a bigger economic driver that we realize… Tampa port’s economic impact measured in new study  The Port of Tampa generates $15.1 billion in annual economic activity, according to an economic impact study being released today. .. Read More…

Simple Idea transforms the world … more to come?

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

Infrastructure from the 50’s, tolls in our future?

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 needs help too

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

More Hiring at Home

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

Crowd Fund our Future

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