Kaitlyn Bagnato Statile
Nov. 5, 2014
New hire
Employer: Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP
Position: Staff attorney
Summary: Statile has joined the Tampa office as a staff attorney in the litigation department. She practices primarily in the area of community associations. …read more
Richard S. Giunta saw a lot of potential in a site off Waters Avenue in the Citrus Park area — with its proximity to major employers and retail, he thought it would be perfect for apartments.
But the demand for the property came as a surprise even to the principal of Giunta Group Ltd. The 72-unit Citrus Run apartment complex was 80 percent preleased in early March — three weeks before its Thursday grand opening. One-bedroom units start at $950 for 937 square feet; two-bedroom units start at… …read more
Downtown Tampa hasn’t quite reached the point where retailers and restaurants are clamoring to be there — the sign in urban revitalization that a neighborhood has officially arrived. With just shy of 7,000 residents between the urban core, Channel district and Harbour Island, there’s not yet enough of a population to attract businesses who rely on foot traffic from the surrounding neighborhood.
So for now, Mayor Bob Buckhorn has another metric for measuring the success of revitalization efforts.
“My… …read more
A string of abandoned storefronts on downtown Tampa’s North Franklin Street will give way this summer to a glitzy 23-story apartment tower, bringing potentially hundreds of residents to this largely unfrequented corner of the urban core.
At 360 apartments, the tower that Atlanta-based developer Carter is pursuing represents a fraction of the residential units in the works for downtown Tampa. And while Tampa seems headed for an urban construction boom, it’s still playing catch up to competitor… …read more
There’s a palpable change at Channelside Bay Plaza since Tampa Bay Lightning took over, the general manager of the Hooters restaurant there said.
“The vibe is coming back down there,” said Rob Fisher. “The important thing is the vibe is not only there on game days, but on off days when there isn’t anything going on at the arena.”
Fisher declined to share any numbers or percentages but said Hooters has “absolutely seen an increase in business and traffic” since Lightning Owner Jeff… …read more
A new study shows just how much Tampa Bay’s apartment boom has meant to the region’s economy — and the total impact goes beyond construction dollars and tax revenue.
In 2013, the most recent data available, apartment construction, operations and resident spending contributed $7.2 billion locally and supported more than 73,900 jobs in the Bay region, according to a study the National Multifamily Housing Council commissioned. The data is based on research by economist Stephen S. Fuller of George… …read more
Two decades ago, the domain name t echnicaljobs.com cost Janet Miller $75.
Now that auspicious purchase could net her up to $75,000.
Selling her domain name is just one of the many steps Miller has to take now that she is closing her Baltimore-based recruitment firm, Computer Management Inc., after 30 years of connecting IT companies with new hires.
Business was drying up, Miller told the Baltimore Business Journal(a Bizwomen sister publication), as tech companies began using LinkedIn and other… …read more
Jobs are getting farther away from where people live, according to a new analysis of demographic and employment data by the Brookings Institution.
The number of jobs within the typical commute distance for residents of the nation’s 96 largest metro areas fell by 7 percent between 2000 and 2012, Brookings found. That’s not true for all metro areas — in 29 metro areas, including Raleigh, N.C., and Florida’s Space Coast, there were more jobs in 2012 within the typical commute distance.
Thirty… …read more
When the groundhog came out of his hole this year, he must have decided to buy a new home — sales of new single-family houses jumped to their highest level in seven years in February
New home sales hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 539,000 in February, according to the Census Bureau. That’s up from 500,000 in January, and is nearly 25 percent higher than February 2014’s rate.
The median sales price for new houses was $275,500 this February; the average sales price was $341,000. …read more
The total pay package for David Dunkel, chairman and CEO of Kforce Inc., nearly tripled in 2014, compared to the prior year, a proxy filed by Kforce(NASDAQ: KFRC) showed. Dunkel pulled in $6.8 million in total compensation last year, a 196 percent increase over $2.3 million in 2013. A big part of the increase came from $2 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation, or a bonus pegged to performance thresholds for revenue, earnings and individual accomplishments. He also received a separate… …read more