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This site at State Road 52 and Bellamy Brothers Boulevard will become a new Amazon fulfillment center featuring robotic sorting.
Amazon announces a second site for Pasco, this one featuring robotic sorting
New Amazon facility will be on State Road 52 at Bellamy Brothers Boulevard and will employ 500 people
Tampa Bay lags in wages, housing, talent compared to peer markets: report
Tampa, and the Tampa Bay region as a whole, scored in the middle to back of the pack among 20 similar markets in the Tampa Bay Partnership's 2022 Regional Competitiveness Report.
The Tampa Bay Partnership’s annual Regional Competitiveness Report highlights areas where the region has room to grow.
Tiger Woods’ PopStroke to break ground on Tampa Bay golf entertainment center
Tiger Woods, shown here putting at the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor in 2018, will bring his high-concept golf entertainment center PopStroke to Tampa this summer.
The putting and family-friendly fun zone co-owned by Tiger Woods is to open by fall in Lutz.
Tampa digital video studio firm expands nationally with Nashville studio
Diamond View Studios CEO Tim Moore shows off a screen at Vu, a virtual production studio in Tampa in late 2020. Diamond View on Tuesday announced it had opened a second studio in Nashville, its first outside Tampa.
Vu Technologies, founded from Tampa’s Diamond View Studios, operates immersive soundstages known as volumes.

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  1. Florida Senate committee advances bill to set statewide condo inspections
    5 hours ago• Politics
    This June 24, 2021, file photo shows the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside. Florida legislators began work on updating the state’s condominium regulations in response to the Champlain Towers South collapse as a Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday to impose inspection requirements statewide, including stricter standards for buildings near the coastline.
  2. Amazon announces a second site for Pasco, this one featuring robotic sorting
    Yesterday• Business
    This site at State Road 52 and Bellamy Brothers Boulevard will become a new Amazon fulfillment center featuring robotic sorting.
  3. Florida closes monoclonal antibody sites following Biden administration decision
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fields a question while attending a news conference at Pasco County’s Mike Fasano Regional Hurricane Shelter in Hudson on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, where he announced that monoclonal antibody treatments would begin for patients as an early treatment to prevent hospitalizations and to save lives.
  5. Bill would expand Florida doctors’ ability to refuse care based on beliefs
    Yesterday• Politics
    Jeanette Jennings, mother of transgender teen advocate Jazz Jennings, speaks at a press conference in the Florida Capitol on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, against a bill that would make it a felony for doctors to provide minors with hormone therapy or to perform sex reassignment surgery.
  6. Walmart invests in indoor vertical farming startup Plenty
    Yesterday• Business
    This undated photo provided by Walmart, via Plenty, shows the Plenty Farms South San Francisco grow room. Plenty says its vertical towers can grow multiple crops on one platform with consistent flavor and deliver higher yields per acre compared to that of a field. Walmart said Tuesday it has taken a stake in agriculture startup Plenty, becoming the first large U.S. retailer to significantly invest in indoor vertical farming as a way to deliver fresher produce to its stores.
  7. Tiger Woods’ PopStroke to break ground on Tampa Bay golf entertainment center
    Yesterday• Kids & Family
    Tiger Woods, shown here putting at the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor in 2018, will bring his high-concept golf entertainment center PopStroke to Tampa this summer.
  8. Tampa digital video studio firm expands nationally with Nashville studio
    Yesterday• Business
    Diamond View Studios CEO Tim Moore shows off a screen at Vu, a virtual production studio in Tampa in late 2020. Diamond View on Tuesday announced it had opened a second studio in Nashville, its first outside Tampa.
  9. Hillsborough County film studio plan goes off script
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    Hillsborough County government administrators recommended rejecting bids from two companies seeking to partner with the county on a film production studio. Shown is an image of the interior of 211 Studios at 211 N. Meridian Ave, Tampa.
  10. Florida State Fair reveals lineup of weird and wild new foods
    Yesterday• Entertainment
    At the Florida State Fair, the "poutine sundae" features fresh cut fries topped with cheese curds covered in gravy. Then they add sirloin steak to make it a cheese cake snack. Located at DeAnna's Steak Sundaes.
  11. Cruise ship wanted in US lawsuit remains in the Bahamas
    Yesterday• Business
    The cruise liner Crystal Symphony leaves the harbor in Charleston, S.C. on May, 21, 2013. Scheduled to arrive in Miami on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, the ship, with hundreds of passengers aboard, was diverted to the Bahamas after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over unpaid fuel.
  12. World shares mixed ahead of Fed meeting
    Yesterday• Business
    A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a volatile day on Wall Street. Inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine are overhanging markets.
  13. Tampa Bay lags in wages, housing, talent compared to peer markets: report
    Yesterday• Business
    Tampa, and the Tampa Bay region as a whole, scored in the middle to back of the pack among 20 similar markets in the Tampa Bay Partnership's 2022 Regional Competitiveness Report.
  14. Dow drops 1,000 points as markets extend slide in 2022
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, specialist Michael Pistillo, left works with colleagues at his post on the floor, Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points Monday as financial markets buckled in anticipation of inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and fretted over the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
  15. Think your home value is soaring? Talk to a farmer
    Yesterday• Business
    Carolyn Retberg leads a cow to pasture after the morning milking at the Quill's End Farm, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Penobscot, Maine.
  16. Frank Calta, champion bodybuilder and Tampa gym chain owner, dies at 75
    Yesterday• History
    Frank Calta was a champion bodybuilder and owner of a chain of Tampa gyms.
  17. Mitt Romney jab at Biden over 7 percent inflation ignores rising wages
    Yesterday• Business
    Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, is surrounded by reporters as he walks to the Senate chamber for votes, at the Capitol in Washington on June 10, 2021.
  18. St. Petersburg’s Trop development won’t (and will) feel like Miami. Here’s why.
    Yesterday• Business
    Alex Vadia of Miami’s Midtown Development listens as then-Mayor Rick Kriseman announces he's picked Midtown to lead the redevelopment of the city's 86-acre Tropicana Field site on Dec. 2 in St. Petersburg.
  19. Gasparilla 2022 is coming. Here’s what you need to know, Tampa.
    Yesterday• Entertainment
    Men dressed as pirates took part in the 2020 Gasparilla Parade of Pirates in Tampa. Both the crowd and the krewes will be dressed as pirates
  20. Tarpon Springs wants a Trader Joe’s. Could it happen?
    Yesterday• Business
    Trader Joe's operates stores in Tampa and St. Petersburg. A new petition signed by 600-plus residents is trying to entice the California-based grocer to open a store in Tarpon Springs.
  21. Cruise ship originally bound for Miami changes course after US judge orders seizure
    Jan. 23• Florida
    The cruise liner Crystal Symphony leaves the harbor in Charleston, S.C. on May, 21, 2013. Scheduled to land in Miami on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, the ship, with hundreds of passengers aboard, was diverted to the Bahamas after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over unpaid fuel. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
  22. Tampa lead factory faces $518,000 in more fines for environmental violations
    Jan. 22• Breaking News
    The County Environmental Protection Commission began its probe of Gopher Resource after a Tampa Bay Times investigation. The commission is proposing a $518,000 fine, after confirming many of the Times' findings.
  23. As ‘Startup of the Year’ hits Tampa, here’s how the local tech scene bloomed
    Jan. 22• Business
    Bo Starr, chief operating officer and co-founder of Tampa fintech startup Grifin, works in front of a mural in an open space at Embarc Collective in Tampa. Grifin was a finalist in the 2020 Startup of the Year summit. This year's Startup of the Year will take place in Tampa on Jan. 25-27, with Embarc Collective hosting.
  24. Florida posts 4.4 percent unemployment rate
    Jan. 21• Business
    Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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