► Led by Jeff Gigante, Next Level Brands Holdings will open its first restaurant, Union New American, at Westshore City Center at 1111 N. Westshore Blvd. (Rendering above)
► Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of business software giant Salesforce, are among the investors in a $12.25 million round of funding for Class Technologies, a startup that created teaching and learning tools that integrate with Zoom.
► Bolay Fresh Bold Kitchen, created by Chris Gannon, son of Outback Steakhouse founder Tim Gannon, will debut in the Tampa Bay area with the opening of its Brandon location at 1544 W. Brandon Blvd.
► Private wealth adviser James Erb and financial adviser Robert Cox joined their Tampa-based financial planning practices to create Continuum Wealth Partners.
► Leap Tampa Bay College Access Network, a network of community partners that connects residents to education and training after high school, was a recipient of a $100,000 grant from the National College Attainment Network to support and strengthen postsecondary enrollment for the COVID-affected graduating classes in the Tampa Bay area.
► Erin Jackson, a founding shareholder with the Tampa law firm Johnson Jackson, has become a Florida Supreme Court certified civil mediator.
► ChappellRoberts, a branding and advertising agency in Tampa, promoted Hunter Taylor to senior director of account strategy and Jennifer Myers to senior media buyer.
► Signode Industrial Group, a transit-packaging provider, is relocating its corporate headquarters from Glenview, Illinois, to Tampa with an office at Hidden River Corporate Park.
► The Urban League of Hillsborough County was approved as an official affiliate of the National Urban League.
► Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of Lakeshore Club, a 638-unit apartment community located in Tampa, for $77 million.
► Nathaniel A. Gardner joined Carlton Fields as an associate in its Tampa office.
► Gunster added Alexis Buese as a shareholder in the firm’s Tampa office.
► The American Marketing Association Tampa Bay added the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the sixth annual inductee into the Marketing Hall of Fame as part of the association’s Marketer of the Year Awards.
► RSA Consulting, a Tampa Bay-based government relations and consulting firm, promoted Natalie King to the position of partner.
► School of Rock, a performance-based music school, opened at 11730 N. Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa.
