This is not a story about what could have been done better, but what is being done right. And you can find what’s being done right by looking to local businesses. The support and love that lives in the Tampa Bay community is overwhelming. We are blessed to live in a community where people truly
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The Ryan Nece Foundation, in partnership with National Christian Foundation Tampa Bay, is distributing 15,000 masks to health care and front line workers throughout Hillsborough County. The 15,000 masks are being provided to health care and public service facilities including Tampa General Hospital, Tampa Fire Rescue, Hillsborough County Emergency Management, St. Joseph’s Hospital, James A.
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Within the past few weeks, unique working conditions have led to significant spikes in the usage of the Zoom platform. More than 200 million daily meeting participants have utilized Zoom during the month of March, compared to the average 10 million daily users in December 2019. This increased traffic has exposed issues with user security
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TBBW held a Virtual Connect with panelists discussing the CARES Act, understanding the Paycheck Protection Program and SBA loan eligibility requirements. Panelists included: Paul Rush, Attorney, Trenam Law Brooke Mirenda, President and CEO, SEDCO Jack Rybicki, Principal, CLA Marianne Keehan, SVP, Regional Sales Manager, TD Bank TBBW’s Virtual Connect Forum is designed to bring together
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►The Heritage Plaza parking garage has opened to the public, providing 836 parking spaces, mostly reserved for use by the structure’s investors: the city of Lakeland, Lakeland Regional Health Systems, MidFlorida Credit Union and Aspyre Properties/BKP Five, but with 49 standard spaces and 10 spaces for disabled people to be available to members of the
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►Construction of the 6,300-square-foot Veterinary Medical Center, at 15205 Garnet Trail in Lakewood Ranch, has been completed. (Pictured above) ►Firmo Construction, in Sarasota, added new superintendent Andor Keresztes and promoted Stefan Baron, former business development director, to vice president of operations. ►The Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation, in Sarasota, established by previous Roper Technologies
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►Cogent Bank opened its new banking center at 1715 N. Westshore Blvd., Suite 150, Tampa. (Pictured above) ►Burr & Forman added Tampa-based associate Sadie Craig to the firm’s consumer finance group. ►Marcus & Millichap Capital, a provider of commercial real estate financing, arranged a $9.75 million conventional loan to acquire an 84-room Hampton Inn &
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►Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of Promenade at Carillon, a 334-unit multifamily asset in St. Petersburg’s Gateway district. (Pictured above) ► The Brian Bill Foundation, a St. Petersburg-based nonprofit organization that provides therapeutic support to active and retired U.S. Special Operations members, added four new members to its board of trustees, including Medal of
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There’s a unique character trait that Bobby Harris, founder and CEO of BlueGrace Logistics in Tampa, looks for in new employees—an affinity, and love, for animals. “It’s typically a person that has a tendency to be more compassionate than others,” Harris told Tampa Bay Business & Wealth magazine during an interview in his home on
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This is not a story about what could have been done better, but what is being done right. And you can find what’s being done right by looking to local businesses. The support and love that lives in the Tampa Bay community is overwhelming. We are blessed to live in a community where people truly
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Fraudsters are using the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to steal money, and personal information, from businesses. In the first three months of the year, the Tampa division of the FBI saw about $8 million in losses associated with Business Email Compromise schemes. In comparison, the office saw about $4.5 million in a single week
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► CheapChard, Bling Bling Properties and Biter Building, the ownership group of PropLogix, purchased a 44,000-square-foot Class-A office building at 5901 N Honore, Sarasota for $10.5 million. (Pictured above) ►Tampa Attorney Ronald Christaldi began his 5-year term as a member of Sarasota’s New College of Florida Board of Trustees. ►Centerstone’s Regional Chief Executive Officer Melissa
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