The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have committed $1 million to the American Red Cross in support of relief efforts that are underway in response to Hurricane Irma.
It wasn’t luck that Tampa was selected Tuesday to host its fifth Super Bowl. When the National Football League learned the new stadium being built in Los Angeles won’t be ready in time for the game in 2021, it had to find a city not only ready to step in on short notice, but one with a proven record of excellence. Tampa checks all the boxes, and that’s because the team Rob Higgins has assembled at the Tampa Bay Sports…
The NFL has awarded Super Bowl LV to Tampa Bay after stadium construction delays in Los Angeles required the league to move back their opportunity by one year. The league’s owners voted unanimously for the move to Raymond James Stadium. “From our standpoint, we felt this was an appropriate thing to do,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “We were fortunate that Tampa had a very competitive presentation when they bid on the Super Bowl earlier (in 2016). So this was…
Eight days before a huge vote on whether the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s will approve of the Tampa Bay Express project to be added to the MPO”s Transportation Improvement Program, a coalition of heavy hitters in the local business world are urging the MPO to vote Yes on TBX. “Threatening this project are opponents who argue that no new roads should be built in Tampa Bay,” says the letter, signed by 60 local CEO’s of some of the Tampa Bay area’s…
For years, attempts to revive the historic Fort Homer Westerly Armory in West Tampa became a fruitless endeavor — but that finally changed two years ago, when the Tampa Jewish Community Center and Federation realized that the 100,000-square-foot space located on North Howard Avenue just south of I-275 could fulfill its needs to have a presence further South of Tampa from their current spot on Gunn Highway. So in October of 2013, the JCC signed a 99-year lease for the building, with an option…
