DELAND — Brick-lined West Indiana Avenue was shut down Sunday and transformed into a scene from the 1950s as a Jacksonville advertising agency filmed a commercial for a national credit monitoring company. The Cross Agency brought several dozen crew members, actors and other staff into town for the commercial. Classic cars and actresses wearing red lipstick…
That was the message from Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill to the commission during the first and maybe only workshop on his $3.96 billion operating budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. One highlight of Wednesday afternoon’s hour-long session was a plan to spend up to $20 million on unspecified projects across the county…
TAMPA — New hotels are opening. New restaurants aren’t far behind. New apartments are on the horizon. And new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau bear out what you can see with your own two eyes in the growth of downtown Tampa’s business environment. Between 2007, when the recession stalled developments all over Tampa, and 2012,…
