CreativeTampaBay will take the data from this distinctiveness study and drill deeper with community partners to determine what we do about it. For example, can we link these distinctive factors to business startups, job growth, industry concentrations, labor market strengths (or weaknesses) and other measures of economic activity?

Click here to download the PDF:

• Things Look Different Here Study

To read media coverage on the study, go to:

• Tampa Tribune:
  http://www.tbo.com/news/money/MGBMLTHTDNE.html
• Welcome To Tampa Bay, June 25, 2006
• St. Petersburg Times: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/19/news_pf/Business/We_re_No_1_But_is_tha.shtml
• Tampa Bay Business Journal: http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2006/05/15/daily43.html?jst=b_ln_hl
• WUSF 89.7:
  http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wusf/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=916636

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