Metropolitan Ministries and Hillsborough County to build new school for Miracle Place kids

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By Jo-Lynn Brown

Metropolitan Ministries and the Hillsborough County Schools District are partnering to build a new school for the children that call Miracle Place their temporary home.

The new 20,000-square-foot educational facility will have eight classrooms that will collectively fit up to 150 students grades kindergarten through fifth grade, according to a statement.

The school, to be named The Patricia Sullivan Metropolitan Ministries School, will be located at 2202 N. Florida Ave., Tampa.

“What we are witnessing…

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This CEO sold her house to fund her company

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By Caroline McMillan Portillo

Jody Porowski is the co-founder and CEO of Avelist , an online platform for people to find and share information — all in list form. She and her co-founder, Josh Jodrey, launched the company in 2012, and it has now grown to 42,000 regular users a month.

Porowski developed Avelist while working full-time at SAS (short for Statistical Analysis System), a company offering business analytics and intelligence software that came in at No. 2 on Fortune’s “2014 Best Places to Work” list. In 2013, Porowski…

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How the owner of a tugboat company prepped Laurie Baker for a career in real estate

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By Hilary Burns

Editor’s note: One of our favorite quotes comes from Madeleine Albright, who once said: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” We couldn’t agree more. So every Monday, we will be talking with different women from around the country about mentorship — what it means, how to do it and why it’s well worth the effort.

The first person Laurie Baker considered a mentor was a woman she met in high school, a friend’s mother who owned a tugboat company. Baker’s own mother…

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Developer restarting long-dormant New Port Tampa Bay project near Gandy and Westshore

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By Chris Wilkerson

A South Tampa marina and condo project could be getting started again as a Fort Lauderdale development company says it is ready to resurrect New Port Tampa Bay south of Gandy Boulevard on Westshore Boulevard.

BTI Partners from Florida’s east coast acquired the title for 51 acres of the former New Port Tampa Bay project at Bridge Street and Gandy Boulevard, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

The developer is still investigating options for the best use of the property, but most speculate a mixed-use…

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