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Brian A. Ford Jr. joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2006 and in his role, oversees all aspects of the organization’s day-to-day business operations and community involvement. He works directly with team ownership to ensure that Buccaneers fans, season pass members and corporate sponsors receive a first- in-class experience. Under Ford’s leadership, the Buccaneers have

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa is leading up to an Oct. 3 grand opening of its expanded and renovated spaces. The $700 million expansion includes a 14-story hotel tower with 562 rooms and suites, three pools and gaming space. The casino complex  already has completed expansions to its poker room, mezzanine-level casino/“Rock Walk”

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Grisselle Centeno remembers loving to play math games with her family. As an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico, she channeled that love of math and engineering into an industrial engineering degree. A passion for teaching adults led her to relocate to Florida and earn a Ph.D. in industrial

Tampa native Barbara Emener Karasek came full circle in her career when she and her husband, Tony, acquired Paradise Advertising in early 2018 from founder Cedar Hames. Earlier in her career, she interned under Hames when he was running the St. Petersburg office of the Earl Palmer Browne advertising agency. “It gives me such chill

The Inc. 5000 rankings for 2019 have been released and plenty of America’s most successful companies can be found right here in the Tampa Bay Area. You can view the entire list here.  Here are the companies to earn the honor:   The Welfont Companies Tampa Rank: 31 Revenue: $20.4 million Number of Times Ranked:

The development team behind the Virage Bayshore tower in Tampa revealed plans for a new, 34-story luxury condominium tower called Arris Tampa, in downtown Tampa. It will feature a ground-floor restaurant, a rooftop residents’ club with an amenity deck and outdoor pool. Eighty residences will span 1,110 to 3,700 square feet and will be priced

West Palm Beach-based Verdex Construction has begun construction on The Pointe on Westshore, a luxury apartment community in Tampa, being developed by Westshore Pointe, a venture between Jupiter-based Index Investment Group and minority local partner Richard Coley. This marks Verdex’s first project beyond Florida’s east coast. The Pointe on Westshore, at 4950 W. Prescott St.,

A luxury estate at 6633 Gulf of Mexico Drive, known locally as “Ohana,” has sold for $11.4 million. Designed by architect Guy Peterson, it’s the highest sale ever reported on the northern end of Longboat Key and the highest luxury sale since October 2014 across the Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, according to MLS records.

Julian Mackenzie is president and CEO of the Museum Of Science and Industry, or MOSI. He originally joined MOSI in October 2016 , as chief financial officer, after more than 30 years in a range of business leadership roles in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy. Mackenzie has developed and

Specs: 6,800 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6½ bathrooms Location: 910 S. Bayshore Blvd. Safety Harbor | Price: $4.25 million Details: This custom British West Indies-inspired home under construction on 1.3 waterfront acres has a 9-mile water view and a deep water dock and lift. With no neighbors for a half-mile on either side, it’s one

The Kolter Group, developer of the One St. Petersburg condominiums, has released renderings for another project for downtown St. Petersburg called Saltaire.  Preliminary plans propose a 408-foot tower that would rise on what is now a parking lot, between the St. Petersburg Hilton hotel and the Northern Trust office building, on First Street South. The

Growing up in St. Pete Beach, Linda Olson watched her father run a small commercial art business out of their home. It was valuable early exposure to entrepreneurship for the woman who today is helping shape the future of entrepreneurship in the Tampa Bay region. As the founder and CEO of Tampa Bay Wave, a