Money from STAR Center sale may fund St. Pete small business incubator

Pinellas County, with money from the upcoming sale of the Young-Rainey STAR Center, may be on its way to funding a new, local small business incubator. During a Tuesday work session, the Board of County Commissioners discussed adding an appropriations request to one of its 2016 fiscal year regular meeting agendas. The request would be for state, federal and county funding for a St. Pete-based small business incubator. According to Tonya Elmore, president and CEO of the Tampa Bay Innovation Center,…