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Mark Sharpe: Blending work, social and creative lives
If you travel to the hubs of innovation across this nation and take a hard look at what makes some of the most productive centers of creativity and invention tick, you might notice they have a few things in common: a highly-educated workforce, global engagement and...
USF Medical School in Downtown Tampa?
The downtown Tampa powers are piling it on heavy to bring the USF Medical School to downtown Tampa. Recently, Lightning owner and downtown impresario Jeff Vinik, who's been buying up land around downtown, especially around the home of the Lightning, Amalie Arena,...
Planning a Rebirth of Northern Tampa
Planning a Rebirth of Northern Tampa Former county commission chairman spearheading efforts to revitalize downtrodden area. AUTHOR: Daniel Casciato Former Hillsborough County Commission Chairman Mark Sharpe sees so much promise in the area he once helped oversee. In...
Steve Case’s VC bus tour looks to fund startups in overlooked cities
THE AOL COFOUNDER ANNOUNCES MORE STOPS ON HIS "RISE OF THE REST" BUS TOUR, AND SHARES WHAT HE'S LEARNED. BY JARED LINDZON With nearly three-quarters of all U.S. venture capital investment landing in just three states—California, New York, and Massachusetts—serial...
Latest plan to improve area around USF: an Innovation District
By Mike Salinero | Tribune Staff Published: July 29, 2015 | Updated: July 30, 2015 at 07:02 AM After years of talk, Hillsborough County leaders say they’re ready to start creating an “Innovation District” in the downtrodden but economically promising area...
University Mall could be cornerstone to revitalization around USF
7/14/2015 University Mall could be cornerstone to revitalization around USF | Tampa Bay Times Commuters heading down E Fowler Avenue near the University of South Florida these days might notice some subtle hints of change along the North Tampa thoroughfare....
Hillsborough’s next big plan is an innovation district. But what is it?
TAMPA — After decades of growing out, Hillsborough County now wants to grow from within. To get there, the county is jumping onto the latest trend in urban planning: building an innovation district. Hillsborough's proposed 2016 budget includes $2 million to create a...
DESPITE RICK SCOTT REJECTION, MARK SHARPE SAYS TAMPA INNOVATION ALLIANCE IS RIGHT ON COURSE
June 30, 2015 By Mitch Perry Among the many local projects that didn’t escape Rick Scott’s veto pen last week was $2 million earmarked for the Tampa Innovation Alliance, the nascent public-private agency charged with redeveloping the University area of North Tampa....
Bruce Katz to keynote the Innovation Gathering October 29th
We are honored to have Bruce Katz as the keynote at our first Innovation Gathering are you going to Join Us? Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of theBrookings Metropolitan Policy Program. He is also co-author of The...
University Mall to get major overhaul
By Russell Nay, ASST. NEWS EDITOR On July 5, 2015 University Mall, located west of campus on Fowler Avenue, could see new stores and renovations as early as the beginning of 2016. ORACLE PHOTO / RUSSELL NAY Tampa’s University Mall is scheduled to receive its largest...