A study commissioned by an economic development group paints a picture of the bay area, for better or worse.

By JAMES THORNER, Times Staff WriterPublished May 19, 2006

Competing with 49 other major metro areas for the loyalty of employers and homesteaders, the Tampa Bay area leads the nation in loads of […]

By STEVE NEWBORN
ST. PETERSBURG (2006-05-18) What makes the Tampa Bay region unique?
In the opinion of economist Joe Cortright, it’s our "Killer B’s."
And that’s not the winged variety making its way north with a vengeance. It’s more like a lure for a wave heading south.
CORTRIGHT: We have the six "B’s." […]

Tampa Bay Business Journal - May 18, 2006
by Alexis Muellner

Tampa Bay has big econmomic strengths as a hotbed of employee leasing, boating, big business, medical devices and adult entertainment businesses. It’s lacking in entrepreneurship, self-education and developing the creative class.
But weaknesses and strengths are big opportunities, and the details don’t […]

 
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Exploring the Value of Place: There’s a “there” here:
 
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To attract high-tech, be more creative; [SOUTH PINELLAS Edition] DAVE GUSSOW. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Oct 20, 2005.
 

Creative communities tend to be places that have a healthy and robust arts community, a robust technology community. They tend to be walkable urban scale neighborhoods. We’re in a place right now in St. Pete […]

 
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