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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • March 25, 2022
Tourism agency expands leadership team with two executive hires

Eric Davis and Aislinn Stone have joined Visit Tampa Bay, the destination marketing organization for Tampa and Hillsborough County, as vice president of finance and director of partner development, respectively.

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  • March 24, 2022
Law firm’s fast-growing lobbying arm names new chief of staff

Gino Casanova, a former legislative aide in Tallahassee, has joined lobbying firm Shumaker Advisors Florida as chief of staff.

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  • March 23, 2022
Local Habitat for Humanity chapters receive portion of massive donation

Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County and Pinellas County, Florida, have received multimillion-dollar gifts from MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to tackle the affordable housing crisis.

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  • March 23, 2022
Number of Zillow job cuts in Tampa grows — again

Zillow adds more people to its list of layoffs in state filing.

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  • March 22, 2022
St. Petersburg nonprofit names new director

Leah Biery has been named director of the St. Pete Pier's Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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  • March 21, 2022
Rapidly growing carwash company expands leadership team

Tampa, Florida-based Woodie's Wash Shack has beefed up its leadership team in several areas in anticipation of major expansion efforts in 2022.

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  • March 18, 2022
Georgia bank names new Tampa Bay market president

Cadence Bank veteran John Acosta has been tapped to lead Synovus Bank’s Tampa Bay operations.

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  • March 17, 2022
Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensary expands in Tampa Bay

Sanctuary Medicinals adds four new locations in Florida, two locally, with six more planned.

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  • March 17, 2022
Tampa-based restaurant chain continues international expansion

Tampa-based fast-food chain PDQ has opened a second restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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  • Louis Llovio
  • March 16, 2022
Tax preparer pleads guilty to defrauding IRS out of millions

St. Petersburg tax preparer and consultant used falsified documents to file returns claiming unearned refunds for clients.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • March 16, 2022
Area firms make list of Southeast’s fastest-growing companies

Companies from the Tampa Bay, Sarasota and Naples regions have been named to Inc. magazine's list of the Southeast’s fastest-growing companies.

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  • March 15, 2022
St. Petersburg firm opens latest assisted-living facility

St. Petersburg, Florida-based Solutions Advisors Group has opened it latest assisted-living facility in Daytona Beach.

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  • March 15, 2022
CBRE arranged for $72.5 million in financing for sale of St. Pete Beach hotel

Financing put together by commercial real estate firm for $83 million sale of the Postcard Inn.

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  • March 14, 2022
Tampa receives high marks for business startup affordability

Tampa, Florida, has received high marks for business startup affordability, according to new research.

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  • March 11, 2022
Clearwater insurance firm continues rapid growth with acquisition

Clearwater, Florida, insurance firm AmeriLife Group LLC has continued its rapid growth with the acquisition of Philadelphia-based BGA Insurance Group.

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