A storied Bayshore Boulevard estate known locally as the Stovall-Lee house is on the market for $13.9 million. Jennifer Zales, a sales associate with Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, listed 4621 Bayshore Blvd. for sale on Monday. Built around 1909 by L.T. Tousdale, then general manager of the Florida Brewing Company in Ybor City, the […]
While the number of home foreclosures was down across the country for the month of March, to 1.5 percent, Florida is not doing quite as well. The Sunshine State recorded more than double the national average for foreclosures, coming in at 3.2 percent of the broader real estate market, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor […]
PGT Inc. plans to expand its workforce by more than 8 percent, as it prepares to hire up to 150 people to work at the North Venice-based manufacturing company. PGT — already the largest employer in Sarasota County with 1,800 workers — has partnered with CareerSource Suncoast to host a hiring event on May 9. […]
Seemed like a new Florida craft brewery opened every time you turned around last year. This was no illusion. Florida has one of the fastest-growing beer industries in the country. A craft brewing trade group has labeled the Sunshine State No. 5 for the number of craft breweries opened last year. Forty-two businesses making artisanal […]
April was another busy month for real estate in Tampa Bay, from new developments to massive office tenants scouting for sites in the region. Here are the top 10 most read real estate stories for April: Tampa Tribune site in downtown Tampa under contract for redevelopment play, sources say(Here’s the follow up to that story: […]
When Sallie Krawcheck was a top finance executive, she had an office the size of a conference room, two assistants, a car, a driver and a private jet. And every day at 3 p.m., she had a plate of warm cookies delivered. These days, Krawcheck has a grungy desk in a small room a fraction […]
Duckweed Urban Market is expanding to the Channel district. Duckweed, which opened in downtown Tampa in 2011, is negotiating a lease for 2,000 square feet of street-level retail space in The Place at Channelside, a residential building between Channelside Drive and Washington Street. If the deal comes to fruition, Duckweed would take the space that […]
As expected, the Federal Reserve decided to keep its interest rates near zero and acknowledged what was evident in Wednesday’s disappointing GDP report: “economic growth slowed during the winter months.” But the Fed said this slowdown “in part reflected transitory factors,” so it doesn’t seem too worried about 0.2 percent economic growth in the first […]
The 16 quaint hotel rooms in the Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn are soon to become apartments. Following a Tuesday report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal about the Don Vicente closing in May, Darryl Shaw, who owns the building, revealed his plans going forward. “It’s really too small for a hotel,” Shaw said […]
TECO has an agreement to sell its Peoples Gas operations center to a Tampa developer, a TECO spokeswoman said. Phillips Development & Realty LLC filed a request with the city to rezone 1400 Channelside Drive for a multifamily development. PDR representatives did not return requests for comment. Cherie Jacobs, a TECO spokeswoman, said the site […]