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Tampa International Airport officials rally behind local members of Congress to fund next phases of Master Plan

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Officials with Tampa International Airport gave members of the congressional delegation and the media a tour today of the current construction going on during Phase I of the airport’s massive Master Plan, which will continue through 2017. The first part of the expansion kicked off last November, and will ultimately cost $953 million — funds that have already been accounted for.Ā But there are two more phases to go through after that, and TIA CEO Joe Lopano said today that Congress…

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Tampa International Airport concession files suit amid denied bid

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A company that had previously bid on retail space in Tampa International Airport is suing the airport because it didnā€™t win a contract. WDFG North America competed in a bid process along with several other companies. The contract for one of five packages was awarded to a retailer called Paradies. That company is opening a Spanx retail store, the Body Shop, Dylanā€™s Candy Bar and a cluster of newsstands. The bid was for ā€œpackage one,ā€ which allows concession companies to…

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Tampa International Airport’s parking garage rates to rise

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If you leave your car at Tampa International Airport overnight in the future, it’s going to cost you a little bit more starting this fall. The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority is scheduled on Thursday to vote on raising the fees on all three parking garages at the airport. The short-term garage will raise its rates per 24 hours from $20 to $22; the long-term garage’s rates will go from $16 to $18; and the economy garage will go up a…

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Tampa International Airport takes a boy’s lost toy on a memorable adventure

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Losing anything in the airport is a headache. Tampa International Airport is big, sprawling and traversed by travelers coming and going by the hour. So when a family reported losing their 6-year- old sonā€™s favorite stuffed animal, the call was frantic. According to Tampa International Airport, Amanda Lake called the airportā€™s lost and found department Saturday morning hoping against all odds her son Owenā€™s stuffed tiger, Hobbes, had been found. Lake told the person on the phone her son was…

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Florida public utilities boast about their solar output at energy conference in St. Petersburg

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Advocates for Floridians for Solar Choice say theĀ central premise behind their attempt to have Floridians vote on a constitutional amendment isĀ to make it cheaper for residents to buy solar power directly from a provider.Ā The groupĀ says that the free market doesn’t work in Florida when it comes to renewable energy choices. There are 55 public utilities in the state, but current state law allows only the investor-owned utilities to do so. But those same critics say that power companies like Duke…

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Tampa Chamber of Commerce positioning Tampa Bay to prosper with post-sanction Cuba

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Last week, a delegation of Tampa areaĀ officials visited Cuba in a trip organized by the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. It was the third excursion to the Communist island led by theĀ ChamberĀ in the past few years, but itĀ was “certainly the most productive and most historic,” says Ronald Christaldi, a partner with the Tampa law firm ofĀ Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP and chair of the Tampa Chamber.Ā Christaldi andĀ a handful of otherĀ officials who were part of the delegation spoke about their hopes…

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Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker comes to Tampa to pump controversial trade agreement

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker came to Tampa Monday morning, ostensibly to discuss the Obama administration’s new forays into diplomatic relations with Cuba. However she used the majority of her speech to pump up the Trans Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest international trade agreements in modern history that President Obama hopes to have negotiated before the summer. “We cannot forget or ignore the fact that 95 percent of the worldā€™s customers live outside the United States,” Pritzker told the…

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