Real estate, development and business across Tampa Bay
A rooftop garden could soon rise above The Central, a mixed-use development in St. Petersburg’s Edge District. Ellison Development has proposed a nearly one-acre garden atop the project’s new parking garage, where visitors would find native plants, city views and dinosaur bones. At the heart of the concept is “Devaiah,” a 76-million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton named … Read more
The Franciscan Sisters of Allegany have committed $1 million to support the creation of a dedicated chapel at the future Pagidipati Children’s Hospital at St. Joseph’s, set to open in 2030. The gift will help fund a central spiritual sanctuary within the new, freestanding pediatric facility offering patients, families and caregivers a peaceful place for … Read more
The Pagidipati family, of Tampa, has been named to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 50, an annual ranking of the largest donors in the United States. The family donated $50 million to St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, last April, to support pediatric health care in the Tampa Bay region. The contribution, one of the largest in … Read more
St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Foundation has announced that Scott and Kathy Fink, in Tampa, have donated $5 million to support children’s health care in West Central Florida. Their gift will help fund the construction of a new, dedicated children’s hospital facility, set to open in 2030, which will be named Pagidipati Children’s Hospital at St. … Read more
Executives from BayCare and St. Joseph’s Children’s Foundation announced a substantial donation to St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital. The Pagidipati family donated $50 million to the Tampa-based health care provider, which is the largest publicly recorded gift to a hospital in Tampa Bay and one of the largest gifts to health care in Florida, according to … Read more
The Pagidipati family, of Tampa, plans to bring the world’s largest triceratops ever discovered to the Glazer Children’s Museum this Spring. The Pagidipati family purchased Big John, as he was called at an auction in 2021, for nearly $8 million with the intention of bringing the triceratops to Tampa for the public to enjoy, according … Read more
