City of Tampa Seeks Members for Community Redevelopment Areas Community Advisory Committees
The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tampa is seeking individuals to serve on Community Advisory Committees for four Community Redevelopment Areas: Channel District (3), Downtown (5), Drew Park (2), and Tampa Heights Riverfront (1).
The purpose of the Community Advisory Committees is to insure that the interests of residents, property owners, businesses and other stakeholders in the area are represented in key decisions. Community Advisory Committees provide input and make recommendations to City staff and the Community Redevelopment Agency concerning their respective areas…Continue reading
Tampa Bay Transit Efforts Remain Stalled Two Years After Referendum Defeat
Two years ago, on Nov. 2, 2010, Hillsborough County voters rejected a 1-cent sales tax to fund transportation initiatives, including light rail.
The margin was roughly 58 to 42 percent against the measure.
“We are disappointed, but we will start working right away to help bring this before voters again,” then Greater Tampa Chamber Chairman Chuck Sykes said in a statement after the defeat...Continue reading
ESPN cruise chooses Tampa as a home port
Tourism, sports and ports will come together when a new sports-themed cruise departs Tampa in February. The ESPN at Sea cruise will bring tourism business to Tampa and compliment the region’s growing sports industry, organizers said.
The five-night, sports-themed cruise will sail from Tampa Feb. 2 and stop in Key West and Cozumel, Mexico…Continue reading
Riverfront Park revitalization plans ignite tension in W. Tampa
Riverfront Park, which runs along North Boulevard just south of Interstate 275, was folded into this spring’s reimagining for the west bank north of I-275 when the Urban Land Institute came to town.
As he seeks to bring more life to the banks of the Hillsborough River, Mayor Bob Buckhorn wants to reinvent the Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, but not just yet.
West Tampa resident Ruth McNair, who has lived in the neighborhood since the 1940s, reminded council members that the city had taken land for both the park and the interstate without consulting the people who lived there…Continue reading
Russian grocery chain Okey-Dokey eyes Tampa Bay
A Russian retailer wants to expand its chain of Okey-Dokey small-box grocery stores to Tampa Bay.
ArgoTrade International, which has a Miami office, is scouting for five leases and a build-to-suit site in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties, according to a Tampa Bay developer familiar with the discussions…Continue reading
