Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival unveils bigger 2026 lineup

Aerial view of the Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival Grand Tasting at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in downtown Tampa.

The Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival will return April 7-11 with an expanded lineup of events across Tampa and St. Petersburg, including three new additions and a new ticketing partnership for its dinner series. Now in its fourth year, the five-day festival will feature chef collaborations, tasting events and competitions at restaurants and waterfront … Read more

Buddy Brew Coffee to open 10 cafés inside Sprouts stores

Buddy Brew Coffee storefront with black awnings during retail expansion into grocery stores

Buddy Brew Coffee plans 10 in-store cafés inside Sprouts locations across Tampa Bay.

Midtown Tampa retail enters next phase

Aerial view of Midtown Tampa showing the retail core anchored by Whole Foods Market, surrounded by offices, apartments and major roadways in Tampa.

Midtown Tampa’s retail component moves from development to long-term stewardship.

Tampa Bay’s Top Companies No. 4: Publix

Downtown Tampa skyline along the Hillsborough River with an overlay reading “Biggest Companies in Tampa Bay: Publix.”

Part of TBBW’s ongoing Tampa Bay Top Companies series, spotlighting major employers across the region without ranking or order.

Publix-anchored Lakeland shopping center sells after 60 years

Aerial view of Grove Park Shopping Center in Lakeland featuring a rebuilt Publix, CVS and Dollar Tree with a full parking lot and surrounding greenery under a clear blue sky

Grove Park Shopping Center in Lakeland has been sold after 60 years and remains one of Florida’s strongest grocery-anchored retail assets.

One Liners Sarasota and Manatee: Kolter, Ritz-Carlton and more

► Kolter Multifamily, an affiliate of Delray Beach’s The Kolter Group, has commenced construction of its latest apartment community, Alton Osprey, at 174 E. Bay St., in Osprey. (Rendering above) ► New College of Florida’s Board of Trustees approved an $11.5 million deal to purchase land from the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority and agreed to create a … Read more

One Liners Polk: Pure Coconut Water, Florida Southern College and more

► 100 Coconuts, a coconut water brand, expanded its retail distribution expansion for its Pure Coconut Water into an additional 450 Publix Supermarkets, across the southeast. (Photos above) ► Justin Turner, a growth and development director at Northwestern Mutual, in  Lakeland, has been named a 2024 Community Service Award winner, receiving a $15,000 grant for The … Read more

One Liners Polk: Publix and Florida Polytechnic

► Florida Polytechnic University has been ranked the no. 1 most affordable cybersecurity bachelor’s degree program, in the country, for 2024.  ► The Polk County Board of County Commissioners hosted a historical marker unveiling and dedication ceremony, at Shady Oaks Gardens Cemetery, in Bartow, which functions as a final resting place for Polk County’s deceased … Read more

Infrastructure and regional population growth is slowing down shipping 

The United States is said to be a “consumer nation.” This means that the country’s demand for goods exceeds the creation of said goods. We need more things than we make, which means those needed items are made somewhere else and need to be shipped to us.  That’s a commerce lesson better suited for high … Read more