Congratulations to our chairman Jim Themides of Wells Fargo and our Board Members for being named one of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2022 Power 100!
Board Members selected include:
Paul Anderson of Port Tampa Bay
Santiago Corrada of Visit Tampa Bay
Adelee Le Grand of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit
Dr. Charles Lockwood of USF Health-University of South Florida
Craig Richard of the Tampa Bay EDC
Bob Rohrlack of the Tampa Bay Chamber
Member companies include:
Ballard Partners Carlton Fields Caspers Company Columbia Restaurant Group Cushman & Wakefield Ferman Automotive Group Fifth Third Hillsborough Community College Holland & Knight Sykes Enterprises Inc. Tampa Bay Lightning, Strategic Property Partners Tampa Bay Rays Tampa Electric Tampa General Hospital The Florida Aquarium Toni Everett Co. University of Tampa
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Last week we announced the finalists for the 2022 Urban Excellence Awards!
The Urban Excellence Awards celebrates businesses, organizations, individuals, events and projects that have made significant contributions toward creating a unique, vibrant and diverse downtown environment – and have made a lasting, positive impact on Downtown Tampa. Did your favorite make the list? Buy a ticket, vote for People’s Choice and show your support!
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Cuban Pathways The Exhibition covers early Spanish settlements and the arrival of the first Africans to the island, and it includes first-hand accounts of émigrés fleeing Revolutionary Cuba. The collection will occupy more than 2,000 square feet of gallery space at the History Center when it opens Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, for a year-long showing.
Pirates invaded Tampa’s Downtown Saturday in the 2022 Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Read about how it went by clicking the link below.
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On Saturday, Mayor Jane Castor finally surrendered the key to the City to the captain of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla. Turns out, running the City isn’t what the pirates thought it would be. After some office shenanigans, meeting outbursts and failed attempts at municipal duties, they decided to return the keys to Mayor Jane Castor.
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