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Big Storm Brewing is planning to open a brewpub, at the Amway Center in downtown Orlando, possibly by the end of the year. The Orlando City Council approved a 10-year lease for Big Storm’s new Amway location. The nearly 5,000-square-foot location will feature onsite craft brewing, as well as kitchen service. The brewpub restaurant will

Bromley Companies announced The Loft at Midtown project in 2019, but now the project is taking a new, more timely meaning. The company is describing it as “uniquely suited as a healthy workplace,” a statement said. The 70,000-square-foot project will prioritize health, and wellness, of its tenants with innovative features such as touch-free features, a

Boulevard Burgers & Tap House is teaming up with OneBlood for a blood drive in St. Pete Beach on Thursday, July 23 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the burger restaurant at 5905 Gulf Blvd., St Pete Beach. All donations will be tested for the coronavirus antibody and donors will receive a $10 voucher

The TradeWinds Island Resorts – the Island Grand Resort and RumFish Beach Resort – in St. Pete Beach added Bob LaCasse as managing director and Travis Johnson as hotel manager. LaCasse has more than 25 years of experience in resort management. Before joining TradeWinds, LaCasse was managing director of Cheeca Lodge Resort and Spa in

Source 1 Solutions, a managed IT services and outsourcing firm based in Clearwater, celebrated its ribbon cutting today at its new Global Technical Services Center at 4904 Creekside Drive, Clearwater. The new, and expanded, GTS is adjacent to the company’s global headquarters. The space includes multiple display systems and alerting systems, according to a statement.

Hendrik Bisanz, founder and CEO of Seasalt Properties, has announced plans to expand his successful real estate company from St. Pete Beach to the City of Tampa. A native of Germany, and now a Treasure Island resident, Hendrik founded Seasalt more than three years ago. The local company, with a global reach, has experienced success

Feed The Need Florida was joined by Titus O’Neil, of the WWE, to serve more than 610 foster families throughout Hillsborough County; in partnership with the Children’s Home Network and 4 Rivers Smokehouse Tampa. O’Neil, who was recently named a finalist for the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award of the year, helped distribute 3,050 meals.

Puff n’ Stuff Catering and St. Petersburg Distillery have partnered to provide a fun food and drink package for dad that can be picked up at Puff n’ Stuff or delivered directly to your home. For $140, the Puff n’ Stuff family meal for four package includes Bratwurst kit (2 per person), cilantro pesto marinated

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay received a $500,000 commitment from The Humana Foundation to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Tampa Bay region. The gift will be distributed to local nonprofits, through the Community Foundation’s Tampa Bay Rapid Response Fund, which provides grants to local nonprofits to address immediate and mid- to long-term

A Tampa-based woman entrepreneur has launched a new initiative to support the Tampa Bay area dining scene. Get Back to Dining Tampa is a campaign created to engage the local community and highlight restaurants that have reopened and are inviting customers to come back and dine. “We are a local business and understand how hard

This is contributed content by Jennifer Rominiecki, president and CEO of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.  There is no singular approach for getting through the COVID-19 economic crisis. But at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, they adopted nearby Historic Spanish Point (in the Osprey area of Sarasota County) as a companion campus to their downtown location, with the idea

Vology, an information technology, cloud and security services firm in Tampa, has announced new appointments to the company’s c-suite. Tom York, (pictured above) a current board member at Vology, was named CEO and Steve Torres was promoted to president and board member. York is an experienced IT services and support executive. He spent a decades-long