CNBC shines national spotlight on Tampa

Leave it to an investment manager to pull out a financial market analogy when describing his adopted hometown to the rest of the nation.

“Tampa is like a value stock,” Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, a former manager of Fidelity’s Magellan fund, told CNBC. “It really has not been found out yet. Business is taking off and I think we are in the middle of a bull market here.”

For its March 19 report, CNBC highlighted plans by Vinik’s real estate firm, Strategic Property Partners,… …read more