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HART working creatively to get bus riders to their stops
Ride to bus stop could be in a Tesla TAMPA, Fla. - Your commute to Tampa could soon include a ride in a Tesla. The Hillsborough Area Transit Authority (HART) has a new program called the "Hyperlink" that picks people up from home or work and takes them directly to...
The key to growing Tampa Bay’s economy
Perfect vision is 20/20, and 2020 can be the year Tampa Bay becomes a permanent top 10 metro area for economic growth. It just takes clear-eyed vision and unrelenting effort. We know the economy is changing, with new products, new means of production and new modes of...
Flyover Metros No More
Happy Holidays fellow travelers. A posting by a local paper in Milwaukee noted a recent study by Apartment List showing the Wisconsin metro as a top destination for the much-desired millennial workforce. There is no doubt that Milwaukee, much like Omaha and other...
Carlton: Can the downtrodden USF area innovate? Believers already believe
Every city has its nominees for ugliest major street. Fowler Avenue is definitely a Tampa contender. It stretches wide and pedestrian-unfriendly, running east to west between the sprawling University of South Florida and car-clogged Interstate 275, a vista of...
Making Tampa a top destination for talent workers
Plutarch wrote that "an imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailments of all republics." The purpose of the Tampa Innovation Alliance is to address this imbalance by transforming the University area from "perceived blight" to economic might. On...
Amy Scherzer’s Diary: Weekly Wrap-up of the Tampa Social Scene
BROADWAY BALL S’Wonderful, S’Marvelous, trilled a trio of New York singers, tempting Broadway Ball guests with a Gershwin medley in anticipation of An American in Paris, the Tony Award-winning play coming to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts next month. Dining...
Innovation Alliance Salutes contributors, looks to future
Friday, October 28, 2016 4:25pm By Lenora Lake, Times Correspondent UNIVERSITY AREA — Community leaders were recognized for their commitment to the area with the first University Area Community Impact Awards, a joint effort between the University Area Community...
Tesla working with Hillsborough transit agency
Move over Uber. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority announced it is working with electric car maker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) to create a ride hailing service for transit users. Enlarge A Tesla Model S TESLA MOTORS HART CEO Katharine Eagan made the...
Blazing a New Trail
Sharpe Bytes – October 18, 2016 The Bureau of Economic Analysis just released its annual rankings of metros by GDP and the Tampa Bay Metro came in at number 26. It was pointed out by @urbntampabay on Twitter that we rank #18 in population so we are "hitting below our...
Disruption – It’s All the Rage
Innovation Districts and Technology Hubs are springing up like kudzu on an old picket fence. I started the year with a trip to Silicon Valley, birthplace of modern disruptive technology, and quickly scoured the U.S. - from University City in Philadelphia to the Cortex...