The FED Said One element that has distinguished the expansion following the Great Recession from expansions following prior recessions is the slow recovery of the housing sector. Recent data releases relating to home sales activity and new construction point to a housing market that continues to grow at a slow but steady pace. Single-family starts […] Read more
The FED Said A sleek housing complex is rising in Chamblee, Georgia. Nothing new there. Nearly 1,000 apartment and condominium buildings have been permitted in the past five years in metropolitan Atlanta, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But the one in Chamblee is unusual. The Senior Residences at Mercy Park is a collaboration between […] Read more
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Summary of Economic Activity Reports from Sixth District business contacts described economic conditions as modestly improving since the previous report. Most businesses continue to expect slow and steady growth for the remainder of the year. District firms continued to describe a tight labor market as many faced difficulty finding workers. […] Read more
Vology goes to space … —- How a $20B marketplace opened up to Vology of Oldsmar // Tampa Business News – Local Tampa News | The Tampa Bay Business Journal For 23 months, a team of 10 Vology Inc. employees spent thousands of hours writing a proposal including prices for hundreds of thousands of the […] Read more
Not wage disparity, wage displacement … —- St. Pete passes ordinance to combat wage theft | TBO.com and The Tampa Tribune http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/st-pete-passes-ordinance-to-combat-wage-theft-20150416/?page=1 —- Shared via my feedly reader
He knows the tide comes to Pinellas first … —- Former Tampa mayor Dick Greco moves to St. Petersburg | Tampa Bay Times http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/former-tampa-mayor-dick-greco-moves-to-st-petersburg/2225513 —- Shared via my feedly reader
Strong vote of confidence in Downtown Tampa … —- Exclusive: Feldman reacquires ownership stake in Wells Fargo Center in downtown Tampa // Tampa Business News – Local Tampa News | The Tampa Bay Business Journal Months after selling the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Tampa, Tampa investor Larry Feldman and his partners have reacquired an […] Read more
—- Three reasons why U.S. banks aren’t entering Cuba – yet // Tampa Business News – Local Tampa News | The Tampa Bay Business Journal It’s easy to get excited about the opening-up of trade relations with Cuba, and while many banks in South Florida and the U.S. are interested, unknowns are keeping financial institutions […] Read more
We’re in the top 40% but JAX is #1 … have to work on that. Tampa Bay cities rank on list of best cities to start a business http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_tampabay/~3/TZfY6EiEmE0/tampa-bay-cities-rank-on-list-of-best-cities-to.html Tom Kennedy 727-804-3733 Westport Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
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
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
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
Energy opportunities like these were not on our radar 10 years ago. And Energy seems to drive nearly everything. Manufacturing didn’t seem to be in our future either… Comeback: Why the US Sits at the Brink of a New Boom In 2005, Charles Morris became convinced that a debt crash was inevitable. In 2006, he […] Read more
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…
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