Mayor Pam Iorio said Thursday she would endorse studying the viability of a meetings or conference center in the West Shore district, tying the proposal to the city's light rail plans. ...more

November 6, 2009

Mayor Pam Iorio said this afternoon she would endorse studying the viability of a meetings or conference center in Tampa's West Shore district, tying the proposal to the city's light rail plans. Iorio, the leading advocate for a regional light rail and enhanced bus transit network, also praised the Hillsborough County Commission's vote Wednesday to move toward putting a 1-cent sales tax increase for mass transit and road improvements on the ballot in November 2010. ...more

November 5, 2009

Local hotel industry officials have requested a study of the viability of building a meeting or conference center in Tampa's West Shore district to draw business to an area where hotel room inventory will grow in 18 months from 8,600 rooms to 10,000. ...more

February 6, 2009

Local hotel industry officials have requested a study of the viability of building a meeting or conference center in Tampa's West Shore district to draw new business to the area where hotel room inventory will grow in 18 months from 8,600 rooms to 10,000. ...more

February 5, 2009

The sagging economy has put a hit on plans for this week's Super Bowl, not that visitors to Tampa for the game and hundreds of millions watching on TV will be able to tell the difference. ...more

January 26, 2009

Employer health care costs are poised to rise 9.9 percent in 2008 - more than double the annual inflation rate - and an additional 9.6 percent in 2009, said a report released Tuesday by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. ...more

June 18, 2008

City leaders aren't the only ones scrutinizing the Tampa Bay Rays' downtown stadium proposal. ...more

February 1, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG City leaders aren't the only ones scrutinizing the Tampa Bay Rays' downtown stadium proposal. ...more

January 31, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Mainsail Development Group is on a mission to clean up Hillsborough Avenue, and its staff is starting at Hillsborough and Eisenhower Boulevard. ...more

November 21, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Mainsail Development Group is on a mission to clean up Hillsborough Avenue, and its staff is starting at Hillsborough and Eisenhower Boulevard. ...more

November 17, 2007