Scenes from Florida Poly and where I’ll be next week
SCIENCE GRAFITTI: I dropped by Florida Polytechnic University last week to update our images of the Innovation, Science and Technology building, a design marvel by architect Santiago Calatrava. Pictured are science doodles as seen on outside glass that rings the circumference of the building. (See photo) April 20 Noon: TBBJ executive roundtable on transportation and […]
Tampa businessman bids on Rivergate Tower in downtown Tampa
Motivated as much by passion as potential profits, a Tampa entrepreneur is bidding on the city’s most iconic skyscraper. Tom Frederick, who was a partner in Zeno Office Solutions before selling the company to Xerox in 2013, said Thursday that he submitted a $60 million offer for the Rivergate Tower, the 31-story cylindrical office tower […]
The 5 most expensive streets to live on in Tampa Bay
The priciest streets to live on in Tampa Bay are in exclusive waterfront enclaves, from Clearwater to an-off-the-beaten path bayfront nook in Ballast Point. That’s according to analysis from Zillow, which released the most expensive streets in the U.S. on Wednesday. The top spot is in South Florida, on Indian Creek Island, a private island […]
New townhouses in Seminole Heights to break ground speculatively next month
A townhouse development in Seminole Heights will break ground speculatively by mid-May. Developer Wesley Burdette had planned to wait until at least one of the homes was under contract before breaking ground on the four-unit development at 113 W. Giddens Ave. But since he launched the sales campaign in mid-January, he’s found that most buyers […]
5 things to start the day: Tampa loses a mayor to St. Pete and an actual number we can tie to the gender earnings gap
Women in Florida earned 84 percent of what men earned in 2013, according to the spring 2015 “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap” report from the American Association of University Women. See the info graphic below for state rankings. The state ranked similarly in a report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, […]
How I faced a tragic loss at my company
The death an employee is a tragedy for any company. Here Rand Construction CEO Linda Rabbitt talks about her president, Jon Couch, who died last fall when the plane he was piloting crashed near Richmond, Virginia. Couch’s mother, Francis Gene Couch, 72, also died in the crash. Couch, 46, was piloting a T-28C Trojan Navy […]