Improving housing market leads to 150 job openings
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. […]
Florida’s brewing industry among the fastest growing in the U.S. (Video)
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 […]
TBBJ’s most-read real estate stories in April
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: […]
25 minutes with Wall Street vet and Ellevate Chair Sallie Krawcheck
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 […]
Urban grocer expanding to Channel district
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 […]
Fed: Economic growth slowed due to ‘transitory factors’; rates stay near zero
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 […]