Category: Tampa Bay

The Tampa Bay Arts and Education Network is going over the top as it heads down the road. TBAEN is moving from its current South Tampa location on the corner of Cass and Willow streets to 505 E. Jackson St. in the heart of downtown Tampa. Read More
HCI Group Inc. has taken the wraps off what it says is the first insurance company licensed in Florida to specialize solely in flood insurance. The new insurance subsidiary, TypTap Insurance Co., will be an alternative to the National Flood Insurance Program, said Paresh Patel, chairman and CEO of HCI… Read More
It’s about to get a little easier to ride a bus to work and back. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority board voted Monday to fund a one-year pilot program that will make rides available to people that need to get to a bus stop or from a bus stop… Read More
A new report by Simply Hired said hiring increased in Tampa Bay in February and the area had more than 57,000 posted job openings. Month over month, hiring in Tampa and St. Petersburg was up by 2.77 percent, higher than the national average of 1.91 percent month over month, according… Read More
Amid a flurry of activity punctuated by the buzz of power drills and a working band saw, Allysa Allen, 17, slid her safety glasses up from her face and took stock of the cooperative effort going on in the River Ridge High School Academy of Engineering classroom and workshop. Read More
Data-Tech will celebrate 20 years of providing award-winning information technology services throughout Tampa Bay and beyond by hosting an Open House and informative Cyber-Threat Symposium on March 30 in Tampa. Read More
Michael Lumpkin, by his own admission, is not much of a social media guy. “I don’t do Facebook. I don’t have a Twitter handle. I’m not on LinkedIn,” Lumpkin told a room full of special operations types from around the globe last week. “Those who know me know that I… Read More
The Helen Gordon Davis Centre for Women this week announced it will expand services in Pinellas County through St. Petersburg College's Women on the Way program. The Hillsborough County center — named for the longtime Tampa legislator who died last year — is a nonprofit that helps area women succeed… Read More
There’s a shift in leadership at an investment firm that oversees a multimillion-dollar fund injecting capital into tech companies in Florida. Greg Baty, who led the team that manages the Florida Growth Fund, has left Hamilton Lane, the Philadelphia-based investment firm hired by the Florida State Board of Administration to… Read More
Labinal Power Systems, a subsidiary of aerospace, defense and security firm Safran, is expanding its facility in Manatee County, according to a statement from the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corp. The expansion includes the relocation of Aerosource, which Safran acquired in 2011, from New Jersey to south Manatee County. The… Read More