Building on its strengths TAMPA / as a trade, technology and financial hub, Tampa- HILLSBOROUGH Hillsborough County is a By Janet Ware region on the rise.
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BY THE NUMBERS Industry giants taking notice of Tampa-Hillsborough’s distribution clout:
Home Depot: Adding to its 800,000-sq.-ft. ecommerce distribution center in Plant City with a 400,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in Gibsonton
WATER STREET TAMPA Ace Hardware Corporation: Upsizing its Tampa-based Retail Support Center at a new 315,000-sq.-ft. facility based in READY AND RESILIENT Plant City On January 1, 2020, Tampa-Hillsborough’s Until there was. And it came in the form future couldn’t have looked brighter … of a global pandemic that would confine Amazon: and those celebratory fireworks raining the residents of Tampa-Hillsborough to Opening a 633,000-sq.-ft. down over Channelside at one minute their homes for a few weeks and force fulfillment center in past midnight weren’t the only reason. everyone to think about the places we Temple Terrace live and the work we do in new and Tampa had closed out 2019 with a bang. unusual ways. At Water Street Tampa, Strategic Property Partners’ innovative live-work-play development, a $200-million JW Marriott luxury hotel was taking shape alongside “1001 Water Street,” the first new trophy office tower to be built downtown in almost three decades. Along I-275, near SIMPLY Raymond James Stadium, the first phase of Midtown Tampa, a $550-million, UNSTOPPABLE 22-acre mixed-use development combin- ing office, retail, residential, entertain- TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH ment and hospitality was nearing comple- Living and working in Tampa- tion. And just a few miles up the road, toward the University of South Florida, Hillsborough isn’t quite like being plans were underway to transform the on vacation every day, but it comes old University Mall on the edge of cam- pretty close. Yes, there are theme pus into an Uptown Innovation District. parks and beaches and warm breezes Tampa International Airport had just in January. But there is also a vibrant come off of its best year yet and business mix of Fortune 500 companies, sassy was brisk at Port Tampa Bay. Tourism in tech start-ups, world-class health Tampa-Hillsborough was at an all-time care facilities and serious educational high with more than 24.5 million visitors options. And, hey, if a pandemic logged in 2019. And with the annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival just four weeks couldn’t faze Tampa, nothing will. away and preliminary preparations well in hand for Super Bowl LV, coming to Tampa in 2021, there seemed to be no end to this city’s good fortune.
46 NOVEMBER 2020 TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY PORTRAIT / FLORIDA TREND CUSTOM CONTENT TOP LEFT: DOWNTOWN TAMPA not anumericaldate,it’s SuperBowl.” you lookatanybody’s deadlineit’s always up,” saysMayorCastor, “andwhenever those arethingsthatwe’regoingtofill “Those arehotels,thoseofficespace, underway continuetomoveforward. And sothe52projectsthatwerealready ping ourdevelopment.” Castor, “weneverreallythoughtofstop- get readyforin2021and,saysMayorJane projects intheworksplusaSuperBowlto down, Tampa hadsomethinglike52major At thetimeofcommunity-wideshut- / ABOVE AND RIGHT: YBOR CITYIN TAMPA
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MAP TERESANNE COSSETTA RUSSELL TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH and Midtown Tampa have timed the And the fact that those stands might what’s great about this community. opening of several buildings within not be filled to capacity doesn’t bother Same thing when the Super Bowl their developments to coincide with the mayor one bit. comes. Even if those stands aren’t the big game. In fact, the 26-story JW completely full, there are still going Marriott, which is expected to open “It’s like when we hosted the RNC,” to be millions of people worldwide in late fall 2020, was designated the (the Republican National Convention, watching Tampa.” official Super Bowl host hotel clear back which came to Tampa in 2012), she says. TRUST TAMPA BAY’S in 2018. “We wanted that coverage to show And that’s the point, according to Mayor Castor. “We want everyone to know the paradise we live in and # how welcoming we are. What a great quality of life we have, what a great place this is to start a business, 1 HOSPITAL. It’s what to grow a business, to move your organization.” Tampa Bay does today that counts the most. DID YOU KNOW? TAMPA IS: The 5th Best Place to Start a Business -WalletHub The Most Livable City in America -U.S. Conference of Mayors The 4th Most Family Friendly City in the U.S. Once again, Tampa General Hospital was named one of America’s Best Hospitals -Homes.com and named the #1 Hospital in Tampa Bay by U.S. News & World Report. Our strong The 6th Best Place for First-Time Homeowners collaboration with our private practice physicians, USF Health Morsani College of -WalletHub Medicine, Tampa General Medical Group physicians and our dedicated team of AND ACCORDING TO LONDON-BASED IHS MARKIT: nurses and health care professionals continues to make this award-winning care In 2020, Tampa had the second possible. Even in the most trying of times. highest small business job growth We’re proud to be part of Tampa Bay’s past, present and future. And in the nation. proud of what our neighbors are doing today to make our community a NAMED ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST DESIGNATED HIGH-PERFORMING great place to call home. • Cardiology & Heart Surgery • Cancer • Diabetes & Endocrinology • Geriatrics Chad Loar Regional President • Gastroenterology & GI Surgery • Neurology & Neurosurgery 813-357-4540 [email protected] • Nephrology • Pulmonology & Lung Surgery • Orthopedics • Urology
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Once again, Tampa General Hospital was named one of America’s Best Hospitals and named the #1 Hospital in Tampa Bay by U.S. News & World Report. Our strong collaboration with our private practice physicians, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa General Medical Group physicians and our dedicated team of nurses and health care professionals continues to make this award-winning care possible. Even in the most trying of times.
NAMED ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST DESIGNATED HIGH-PERFORMING • Cardiology & Heart Surgery • Cancer • Diabetes & Endocrinology • Geriatrics • Gastroenterology & GI Surgery • Neurology & Neurosurgery • Nephrology • Pulmonology & Lung Surgery • Orthopedics • Urology
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FLYING HIGH
TAMPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 2019 was another banner year for Tampa International Airport, which handled a LONE STAR STATE DOCKS AT PORT TAMPA BAY. record 22.5 million passengers and 220.9 million tons of cargo while averaging 298 aircraft departures daily. In GETTING IN, GETTING AROUND 2020, on the other hand, as coronavirus spread across Logistics and distribution is one of Tampa- headquarters and manufacturing facility the country, passenger traffic Hillsborough’s most vibrant industry from south Tampa to Pendola Point at sectors, which should come as no sur- Port Tampa Bay. at TIA plummeted. It wasn’t prise. This region has all the right assets until late September that – Florida’s largest seaport by size and And there’s travel by roadways to consider some truly good news arrived: tonnage; a top-rated international air- too. Like any bustling metropolitan area, Tampa was named one of two port; and an interstate highway network Tampa-Hillsborough is an especially busy directly linking Tampa-Hillsborough to place on weekday mornings and after- second-best large airports Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Pensacola noons. And while the Hillsborough Area in America in J.D. Power’s and all points beyond, putting 34 million Regional Transit Authority (HART) serves annual airport satisfaction consumers within an 8-hour drive. In 2020, much of the city by bus and there is talk survey. And as more and more despite some operational adjustments and of establishing a mass transit system, the revenue declines brought on by COVID- primary mode of transportation for com- domestic flights return and 19, all three of these vital assets continue muters here remains the automobile. And international markets reopen, to move Tampa-Hillsborough forward at the preferred route? The Lee Roy Selmon TIA continues to make progress record pace. Expressway, an electronic toll road that on construction projects cuts across the county from east to west. Consider Port Tampa Bay, for example, launched before the pandemic, which, early in the coronavirus pandemic, On a daily basis, some 195,000 trips are including SkyCenter One. The lost all its cruise business – 23% of its gross made into and out of the city of Tampa nine-story, 280,000-sq.-ft. revenue. That kind of loss could have crip- via the Selmon Expressway, according to office tower that will connect pled some ports, but because Port Tampa Joe Waggoner, executive director of the Bay operates with one of the industry’s Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority. to the TIA main terminal by most diverse portfolios, any downturns “That translates into more than 60 million train was topped out over the the port experienced were short-lived, trips a year,” he says. summer and is expected to be according to Port CEO Paul Anderson. In fully completed by spring 2022. June 2020, for example, Port Tampa Bay “Take a ride along the Selmon from one logged 147 ship calls compared to 152 the end to the other and you’ll see what I previous year. mean – billions of dollars in growth that has happened over the last five years,” he Business at Port Tampa Bay, which cel- adds, citing developments like TopGolf, ebrated its 75th anniversary in June 2020, USAA, Water Street and Coca-Cola’s soon- has remained steady throughout the to-come $300-million facility positioned in summer and into the fall. In June, the port close proximity to the Selmon. received a $19.8-million INFRA grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to Waggoner expects that the $250-million expand its container capacity by 60%. extension to the Selmon that is currently underway in south Tampa will result in And while some capital projects had to many more billions of dollars in new be put on hold during the early weeks of housing and commercial development. the pandemic, business development has “We expect that to be open in the spring continued. In August, the port entered of 2021,” he says, “and then you’ll have into a deal with iconic boat manufacturer a non-stop trip from I-75 in the Brandon SKYCENTER ONE Bertram Yachts to move its corporate area all the way over to Pinellas.”
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OTHER MANUFACTURERS GROWING IN TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH INCLUDE: Advanced Airfoil Components: a joint venture between Siemens USA and Chromalloy, hiring more than 40 manufacturing and engineering positions at its 210,000-sq.-ft. advanced SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES manufacturing facility in Gibsonton. Anuvia Plant Nutrients: headquartered in Orange County, entering into a long- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT term strategic relationship with The Mosaic Company to reopen a shuttered Did you know that Tampa is home to Plant City facility and hire 130+ for the world’s second largest independent provider of aviation training services? the manufacture of fertilizers for the Probably not, because CAE USA, which agriculture, turf and lawncare industries. manufactures flight simulators for mili- tary and civil planes, keeps a somewhat Beneficial Blends: a leading co-packer low profile. partner for private brand organic, natural and conventional food manufacturing, in More than 27,000 people are employed 2020, celebrating 10 years of continued in Hillsborough County’s manufacturing
sector, and the commodities they have TIMES BAY JONES, TAMPA OCTAVIO PHOTO growth since its founding in Tampa. a hand in producing include eye care J.C. NEWMAN CIGAR COMPANY IN YBOR CITY HAND Bolder Athletic Wear: which began life products, building materials, athletic ROLLS CIGARS SHIPPED AROUND THE WORLD. in 2008 as SparkleSkirts, makes all kinds wear, fabricated steel, machinery, fertilizers, flight simulators and luxury of athletic wear in addition to skirts, yachts. CAE USA employees with the capacity including shorts, capris and leggings for to add 150 more. “We’re excited to women as well as lines for men One of the most prominent to recently grow and expand to a new state-of- and children. headquarter here is The Mosaic the-art facility,” says CAE USA President Company. The firm, which has locations and General Manager Ray Duquette. Bertram Yachts: which relocated to on four continents, moved its base of “It will help us attract and retain the South Tampa in 2016 and is on the move operations to the Bank of America world-class workforce we need to Plaza in downtown Tampa in 2019. develop advanced training solutions again. The iconic boat manufacturer has Tampa Tank-Florida Structural Steel for the men and women in our defense entered into a deal with Port Tampa Bay (TTI-FFS) opened here in 1953. Southern forces.” to move its headquarters to Pendola Manufacturing Technologies, which Point near Berth 21. makes precision machine components AND COMING ON STRONG, THESE and assemblies for the aviation/aero- MANUFACTURING NEWCOMERS: space and defense industries, was • Incofilt, a Colombia-based industrial established in Tampa in 1983. And filter manufacturer, launching its first Dublin, Ireland-headquartered James U.S. operations in Tampa under the Hardie, a building products manufac- name Delasierra Filters Technology turer, opened a manufacturing facility in Plant City in 1994. • Aero Simulation Inc. (ASI), providing support and upgrades for exist- CAE USA broke ground on its new ing training devices as well as the state-of-the-art U.S. headquarters adja- manufacture of new full flight and cent to Tampa International Airport in part task training devices primar- fall 2019. Slated for completion in 2022, ily for Department of Defense and NEW HEADQUARTERS OF CAE USA OPENING AT TAMPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN 2022 the new 290,000-sq.-ft. facility will be Department of Homeland Security home to more than 600 Tampa-based personnel
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1101 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE, TAMPA, FLORIDA 33602 TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH TAMPA’S ONE UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY SECTOR COMES INTO ITS OWN
For the first time ever, Tampa has cracked CompTIA’s list of the nation’s top 20 best cities for technology workers. DRIFT‘S DOWNTOWN TAMPA OFFICE
With more than 52,000 technology- related jobs, Tampa has bested Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville to developers and engineers over FAST FACTS GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED be named Florida’s top tech mar- the next 12 months as it opens ket …and that market is growing! a new human-centered Artificial Here’s how Tampa’s tech sector Since late December, 2019, four Intelligence Experience (AI + X) lab – measures up nationwide: tech companies from as far away as its third nationwide – in Ybor City. Boston, Washington, D.C., Washington No. 1 small tech market in North America With campuses located in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee, (CBRE’s Annual Tech Talent Report) state and the United Kingdom have • Drift, opening its fourth U.S. office the University of South Florida is dedicated to empowering students to announced plans to open sites in in downtown Tampa. This Boston- No. 2 best city for young entrepreneurs maximize their potential for lifelong success. Tampa; and four other tech firms that based company is the originator of (Forbes/NerdWallet) are already located here are growing “Drift,” a Conversational Marketing in size. Platform that combines chat, email, No. 3 best city for small businesses (Lending Tree) video and automation to make the For Jill St. Thomas, executive director B2B buying process frictionless. In of Tampa Bay Tech Forum, a synergis- addition to its Boston headquarters, tic community of more than 100 tech Drift has offices in San Francisco and companies across the Greater Tampa Seattle and aims to grow its Tampa- • Cybersecurity giant ReliaQuest, Bay area, all of this increased activity based team to 100 employees by which was founded in Tampa in TOP 5 IN STUDENT SUCCESS TOP PRODUCER OF FULBRIGHT USF Morsani College of comes as no surprise. 2021. 2007, plans to hire 100 employees at among 1,100 public research SCHOLARS, with 11 faculty Medicine achieved the HIGHEST its Tampa headquarters by the end scholars for the 2019-2020 MCAT SCORE in Florida “There’s a spotlight on Tampa Bay. • Fisher Investments, opening its of 2020. and doctoral universities 2018 Eduventures Student Success Ratings academic year Association of American Medical Colleges-2019 People are seeing that we have a really first East Coast office at the Tampa The Chronicle of Higher Education interesting vibe and a lot of unique Bay Park corporate center near • Health care information technology areas to live, work and play in.” And Raymond James Stadium with the firm Avalon Healthcare Solutions while the coronavirus pandemic has goal of having 600 employees. An is expanding its corporate office in brought relocation activity in some independent, fee-only investment Tampa and adding more than 40 business sectors and cities to a halt, advisory firm, Fisher manages $123 jobs in IT, data analytics, database St. Thomas remains optimistic about billion in assets and, in addition to management and finance. Tampa. “We are a really resilient com- Florida, has U.S. locations in Texas, USF is AMERICA’S FASTEST-RISING USF is one of 56 public research munity,” she says, “and over the next Washington and California. • The California-based biotechnology UNIVERSITY, now ranked #46 universities nationwide classified as 12 to 24 months, I think we’re going to company Amgen is adding 33,000 among Public Universities both a DOCTORAL UNIVERSITY with see a lot of positive growth.” • And coming soon from Canada: square feet to its Tampa office, U.S. News and World Report “HIGHEST RESEARCH ACTIVITY” and as CodeBoxx Technology. This firm, where more than 300 employees a “COMMUNITY ENGAGED” institution TECH NEWCOMERS PUTTING DOWN which offers a 16-week, full-time handle the company’s finance, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ROOTS IN TAMPA INCLUDE: coding course with the promise that human resources and IT work. • iO Associates, an information any participant who completes it technology and digital staffing is guaranteed a job, is planning a • A-LIGN, a cybersecurity and privacy firm based in the United Kingdom, relocation to either Tampa or St. compliance solutions provider, has bringing cloud technology staffing Petersburg in 2021. opened an office in Sofia, Bulgaria, EXPLORE MORE AT USF.EDU expertise and 40 jobs to downtown its first international expansion. Tampa with the launch of its first Meanwhile, four companies that are Over the last year, A-LIGN has added U.S. office. already prominent fixtures in Tampa’s more than 100 new employees and tech sector are growing in place and, 800 new clients globally. • TheIncLab (TIL), hiring up to 15 in at least one case, overseas: #ONEUSF
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With campuses located in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee, the University of South Florida is dedicated to empowering students to maximize their potential for lifelong success.
TOP 5 IN STUDENT SUCCESS TOP PRODUCER OF FULBRIGHT USF Morsani College of among 1,100 public research SCHOLARS, with 11 faculty Medicine achieved the HIGHEST and doctoral universities scholars for the 2019-2020 MCAT SCORE in Florida 2018 Eduventures Student Success Ratings academic year Association of American Medical Colleges-2019 The Chronicle of Higher Education
USF is AMERICA’S FASTEST-RISING USF is one of 56 public research UNIVERSITY, now ranked #46 universities nationwide classified as among Public Universities both a DOCTORAL UNIVERSITY with U.S. News and World Report “HIGHEST RESEARCH ACTIVITY” and as a “COMMUNITY ENGAGED” institution Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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HIGHER EDUCATION University of South Florida University of Tampa THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA St. Leo University – Tampa Center Hillsborough Community College EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS DESERVING OF AN A+ When companies go “shopping” for one. Paving the way and working largely BY THE NUMBERS potential relocation sites, one of their behind the scenes to accomplish that primary considerations is talent: “How merger was USF President Steve Currall. large is the labor force and does it offer IN TAMPA: the skills I need?” Tampa-Hillsborough With its signature minarets and National 37.3% of the population hold a scores high on both fronts with a labor Historic Landmark status, the University of bachelor’s degree or higher force and educational institutions that Tampa is a jewel in this city’s educational are nationally and internationally ranked. crown. Offering more than 200 academic 75% of graduates at local post- programs and a diverse student body of Most prominent among these is, of which some 1,400 are international, UT is secondary institutions end up course, the University of South Florida, making a name for itself in both academic staying in Florida – the majority which over the past 10 years, has risen and nonacademic circles. within the Tampa Bay Region faster in U.S. News & World Report’s public university rankings than any other UT’s Sykes College of Business has been And college grads are apt to fare school – in 2020, cracking the top 50 for named to Bloomberg’s best business better here than in Orlando or the second year in a row at No. 46 and schools list for four consecutive years. Miami according to Apartment barely missing the top 100 overall institu- Its entrepreneurship program, ranked tions with a score of 103 among national among the nation’s top 50 by The List’s 2020 “Best Metros for universities. Serving a combined total Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship College Graduates,” citing of more than 50,000 students in Tampa, magazine, is a major source of talent for Tampa’s average salaries, lower St. Petersburg and Manatee-Sarasota, businesses in the Tampa Bay region, says rents and greater than average USF leads the State University System in Sykes Dean Frank Ghannadian. “When Performance Based Funding and is a veri- I first came here 13 years ago, we had satisfaction among people in table research powerhouse. 1,500 students; now we’re close to 4,000, their 20s. just in the College of Business.” And, In FY2019, USF was awarded a record it seems, after completing their stud- Sources: Apartment List; Tampa $525.4 million in research contracts ies, those students are sticking around. Bay Economic Development and grants. According to the National “About 40% of our graduates remain and Council; U.S. Census Bureau Institutes of Health, every $1.00 in get employed within a 40-mile radius of research funding brings in $2.21 in local Tampa Bay,” he adds. economic growth, which means that USF’s 2019 research funding alone supported ROUNDING OUT TAMPA’S COMPLEMENT OF more than 5,900 jobs and generated HIGHER EDUCATION OPTIONS ARE: more than $1 billion in local economic • St. Leo University, with a Tampa growth. New technologies patented Education Center in the Channelside by USF faculty include ear recognition District, offering flexible class schedules technology, an alternative to fingerprints tailored to busy adult students and a and face and iris recognition; devices and variety of disciplines. methods for measuring blood coagula- tion; and ammonia removal in freshwater • Hillsborough Community College, with and saltwater. five campuses across Hillsborough County, is the second largest higher USF entered a new era this year with the education institution in Hillsborough THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA merger of its three campuses – Tampa, St. County by enrollment. Petersburg and Manatee-Sarasota – into
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TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH HEALTH CARE THAT IS SECOND TO NONE
Tampa-Hillsborough health care has risen to the top over the last few CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY AT months and for, perhaps, a sizeable TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL portion of the foreseeable future.
When USF’s Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute moved works: an infectious disease hospital AT A GLANCE into its new 13-story building in on the grounds of Tampa General. downtown Tampa in mid-January HEALTH CARE EXCELLENCE 2020, the 395,000-square-foot facility One aspect of COVID-19 that hasn’t Two Tampa-Hillsborough hospitals was to serve as a hub for approxi- received a lot of media attention is its mately 1,800 USF students, faculty and personal cost on patients, says David achieved top 50 rankings in multiple staff to live, work and study in close Pizzo, Market President-West Region specialties on U.S. News & World proximity to the college’s primary of Florida Blue, the largest health Report’s “Best Hospitals 2020-21” list: teaching hospital, Tampa General. By insurer in Florida. early March and together with USF Tampa General Hospital Health’s 900-physician member medical On the patient side, he adds, “We’re practice, Morsani College and Tampa very strong in trying to educate people Moffitt Cancer Center General would become ground zero that there are still good options for the fight against COVID-19 in available even if you’ve been dis- Tampa-Hillsborough. placed by your employer, can’t afford COBRA or your income has changed Says Dr. Charles Lockwood, dean of considerably.” too. Among those with new develop- the Morsani College of Medicine and ments are: senior vice president of USF Health, Tampa General, this region’s only Level “We’re very proud of the fact that our I trauma and comprehensive burn care • Amgen, a California-based biotech- pulmonary intensive care and infec- center, remains one of the nation’s nology company, adding 33,101 tious disease doctors and hospitalists at busiest adult solid organ transplant square feet of office space at its Tampa General Hospital have achieved centers, logging 585 transplant proce- Global Capability Center in Tampa’s one of the lowest mortality rates for dures in 2019. And University of South Westshore business district. some of the sickest COVID patients on Florida’s CAMLS – Center for Advanced the planet.” Medical Learning and Simulation – • Avalon Healthcare Solutions, continues to provide state-of-the-art, expanding its corporate office in A key to achieving those low mortality hands-on learning opportunities for Tampa with the addition of more rates, says Dr. Lockwood, was the close practicing physicians and medical stu- than 40 jobs in IT, data analytics, relationship that developed between dents alike. database management and finance. USF Health and Tampa General Hospital. Elsewhere in the city, Moffitt • Soule Medical, a maker of dispos- Cancer Center, one of only two able foam, reusable gel and other And out of that dual focus on critical National Cancer Institute-designated items used by health care workers care, says Stacey Brandt, Chief Strategy Comprehensive Cancer Centers in and hospitals, growing its opera- and Marketing Officer at Tampa Florida, has broken ground on a tions in Lutz with the addition of a General Hospital, has come innova- 10-story, $400-million surgical hospital 106,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant tive approaches to COVID aftercare. near its main facility that will expand and warehouse, and Among them: the COVID-19 Confirmed its patient capacity by 65%. (“CoCo” for short) Clinic, a joint effort • Immertec, a visual reality medical between USF Health and Tampa Tampa-Hillsborough’s life sciences training firm bringing on six new General to ensure that COVID patients component, with nearly 900 life sci- senior-level hires as the demand for receive continuity of care after dis- ences/health care companies and some its services has grown along with charge from the hospital. Also in the 43,000 employees, has remained active shifting health care priorities.
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of graduates were employed % or continuing their education THE POWER OF 94 within one year of graduation. COMMUNITY 190 84% academic of our graduates programs. stay in the Tampa Bay area.
students served 47,000 each year. $4.80 17.9% higher earnings return for every dollar per student invested dollar invested. by the state.
BUILDING A TALENT PIPELINE FOR TAMPA BAY For more than five decades, Hillsborough Community College is helping to drive the economic recovery of our region one student at a time.
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RESHAPING THE COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPE
Uptown, Midtown, all around the town, Tampa-Hillsborough’s commer- cial real estate market is alive and well – some might even call it “explosive” – with three major developments in the WATER STREET TAMPA RISING works.
The most prominent and comprehen- sive of these is Water Street Tampa. and soon, “Heron,” consisting of 420 village” with offices and co-working Conceived and created by Strategic rental apartments in twin 20-plus story spaces, restaurants, shops, apartments, Property Partners, this 56-acre mixed- towers with 40,000 square feet of hotels and parks. And culminating use development being constructed in retail space at street level. the project: a three-story, mixed-use downtown Tampa is the first neighbor- office building. RITHM, by the way, is hood in the world to be certified as a The first phase of Water Street an acronym that stands for Research, WELL Community by the New York- Tampa to be completed by late 2021, Innovation, Technology, Habitat and based WELL Building Institute. Here, includes more than 4.5 million square Medicine, The builders believe it hotels are designed to be social hubs, feet across 12 distinct buildings. Full speaks to the dynamic redevelopment homes to be personal sanctuaries and buildout of Water Street Tampa is and future purposes of the former mall offices to be centers of productivity anticipated by 2027. Once complete, property. and innovation. Currently under con- the neighborhood will be home to struction is a JW Marriott Hotel, which approximately 9 million square feet of One thing to note … not all of the is slated for completion well before new commercial, residential, hospital- development currently under way in the Super Bowl comes to town; “1001 ity, entertainment, cultural, retail and Tampa-Hillsborough is visible from the Water Street,” a 20-story office tower; educational spaces – all connected by street. A lot of it, in fact, is going on pedestrian-friendly streets and lushly inside buildings as workplaces evolve landscaped public spaces. and adapt to office life after COVID-19. Consider for example, the 526,000-sq.- Meanwhile, Midtown Tampa, a 22-acre ft. office of global law firm Baker development just south of I-275 on the McKenzie at SunTrust Financial Center northeast corner of North Dale Mabry in downtown Tampa. The roughly 200 Highway and West Cypress Street, con- professionals who are employed there tinues to take shape. The $550-million have been largely working from home project includes a hotel, apartments, during the COVID shutdown and many office space and retailers, including are not particularly anxious to return Whole Foods Market and Tampa’s first to an office environment. Shake Shack. If all goes according to plan, the hotel and residences will So the firm’s Executive Director Jamie open in January 2021, just ahead of Lawless is, quite literally, thinking out- Super Bowl LV. side the box. “We have really flipped the script on a traditional law firm lay- And currently just beginning construc- out,” she says, “completely open, com- tion, is a third development – RITHM at pletely modular, no assigned seating.” Uptown – along Fowler Avenue adja- And while certain elements of Baker cent to the University of South Florida McKenzie’s work can’t be accomplished where the largely vacated University at home or replaced by Zoom, Lawless Mall used to be. RD Management, is turning whatever space needs to be which purchased the 100-acre prop- accessed at the downtown office into a erty in 2014, is finally redeveloping place where employees want to come 1011 EAST CUMBERLAND AVENUE it into a mixed-use “urban research when they need to collaborate.
60 NOVEMBER 2020 TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY PORTRAIT / FLORIDA TREND CUSTOM CONTENT “Why should a larger company go to the Bank of China for a loan when a community bank like ours could just as easily handle the transaction?”
In fact, she’s in favor of more and newer small banks. “The small banks,” she says, “are here to build those rela- tionships, to start with you from the ground up.”
And in the current economic climate, when many small business owners are struggling to remain afloat, getting to know your banker on a first-name basis has its advantages. TAMPA’S FINANCIAL DISTRICT “That’s how we build lasting relation- ships with business customers,” says Bill West, CEO of Bank of Tampa, the larg- FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS est locally-owned bank head-quartered in the four counties it serves. “In the Tampa-Hillsborough County is a busi- but so do some tiny ones. first 90 to 120 days after COVID hit,” ness-friendly community and the proof he says, “all banks in this country were is in our fast growing and personalized Banks of all sizes and configurations focused 100% on PPP.” And while the financial sector. And that doesn’t nec- have clustered here, which, says Rita federal government’s program was far essarily mean mega-financial institu- Lowman, president of locally owned and from perfect, he believes it did what it tions. All of the well-known brands in operated Pilot Bank, is a good thing. was supposed to do. “It kept a lot of banking have facilities here of course, “We need banks of all sizes,” she says. people off the unemployment lines.”
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No doubt about it, Tampa- Hillsborough is a great place to live. RIVER WALK Just ask Jane Gowarty, vice president- business development and relocation at Smith & Associates Real Estate in south Tampa.
“We had 400 clients given to us from other companies just this year from January to July,” she says. Most came from the Northeast and large cities elsewhere in the U.S. and, she adds, they’re finding in Tampa-Hillsborough, a quality of life that just 10 years ago was lacking. FLORIDA AQUARIUM BUSCH GARDENS
Which comes as no surprise to The Florida Aquarium’s President and CEO Roger Germann. A native of Chicago, On a typical weekday – before coro- boomers looking to relocate existing he is well aware of how cultural assets navirus – downtown Tampa would be businesses here.” Many bring jobs with become economic drivers, attracting populated with about 60,000 work- them and some even start new busi- both tourists and permanent residents ers (which became more like 6,000 nesses from scratch. But even as they to a city. at the height of the pandemic). And are drawn to Tampa-Hillsborough by throughout an ordinary year, nights its warm weather and sunshine, know- Community momentum fueled the and weekends would find Curtis Hixon ing there’s great medical care available construction in downtown Tampa’s Waterfront Park packed with people here matters more. Channelside district of a convention enjoying a steady stream of concerts, center, a multi-purpose arena and The art shows, barbecues and beer-fests Overall, there’s plenty to love about Florida Aquarium, which celebrates its organized by The Tampa Downtown living in Tampa-Hillsborough – its 25th anniversary in 2020. Partnership, says its president and economic clout, good schools, superior CEO Lynda Remund. Among the most health care, loads of cultural and recre- In addition to The Florida Aquarium, popular events: “River Green” when ational options, friendly people, daily which welcomed more than 841,000 the Hillsborough River goes green for sunsets over the Gulf and just the right visitors in 2019 and was headed to St. Patrick’s Day; and “Rock the Park,” mix of vibrant urban areas and wide 900,000+ before COVID-19 struck, Tampa’s free music concert series on open spaces. Channelside is today home to fun stuff the first Thursday of every month, like Sparkman Wharf, a combination courtesy of The Tampa Downtown This community remains optimistic dining garden, craft beer garden and Partnership. “River Green” had to be as it grows, an asset that long-time “recreational lawn; the Tampa Bay cancelled this year due to COVID, but Tampa attorney and fifth-generation History Center; and the S.S. American “Rock the Park” has gone virtual with Floridian Rhea Law does not find at all Victory Ship and Museum; as well as great success. surprising. offices, hotels and a growing health care sector that includes USF’s newly Like many cities in Florida, Tampa- “The story for us is resiliency,” she says. opened Morsani College of Medicine Hillsborough has a sizeable senior “We have such momentum now – so and Heart Institute. And linking it all population, but these folks aren’t many huge projects underway – that together – Tampa’s vibrant Riverwalk, necessarily bent on retirement, says when this ‘hiccup,’” as she calls the leading to dozens of other downtown Jeff Johnson, AARP’s Florida state pandemic, “comes to an end, we’ll be attractions and amenities. director. “A lot of them are aging baby ready to hit the ground running.”
62 NOVEMBER 2020 TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY PORTRAIT / FLORIDA TREND CUSTOM CONTENT ON THE FRONT LINE OF COVID-19
Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM Senior Vice President, USF Health Dean, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine University of South Florida
Invented new lab tools Created COVID-19 outpatient clinic Informing We developed viral test kits and a new 3D Our virtual clinic provided important follow-up printed nasal swab, and shared our ideas services for thousands of patients recovering from across the globe. More than 40 million swabs COVID-19. have been produced so far. Testing Launched clinical trials for Tested tens of thousands treatments and cures Innovating We ran multiple Hillsborough County testing More than 27 active clinical trials were initiated, sites where all patients were tested for free. including a pediatric vaccine study.
Treating the sickest B2B consulting Caring USF Health faculty remain on the front lines The TGH Prevention Response Outreach (TPRO) of COVID-19. Early and decisive action taps the expertise of USF Health infectious disease meant our region had one of the lowest case specialists to provide consultation to businesses fatality rates in the nation. and schools on protecting their customers USF Health was and students. Accelerated telehealth center stage We set up a telehealth platform in a week Kept Floridians informed when COVID-19 and have completed more than 100,000 Since the crisis began, Florida leaders have turned telehealth visits since the crisis began — to Dr. Lockwood and his faculty for best counsel, hit Florida more than any other specialty group in and people in and out of Florida have relied on USF the region. Health for expertise on everything COVID-19.
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SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS GOT A BOOST
Owning and operating a small COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED business can be a rewarding experience; in the midst of a global pandemic, it can be downright FINDING HELP IN TROUBLED TIMES terrifying. And that’s where someone like Eileen Rodriguez, It’s been said that the true measure of a a particular project or contribute to regional director for the Florida community lies in how well the people Community Foundation’s “Tampa Bay Small Business Development who live there care for one another. If Rapid Response Fund.” And it worked, that is true, then Tampa-Hillsborough says Spalten. “Just in March and April Center at the University of South gets high marks. alone – and just for COVID relief – we Florida, can help. gave out $3 million.” Founded in 1990, the Community Rodriguez notes that since the Foundation of Tampa Bay connects By the end of August 2020, the pandemic began, she’s seen “an donors, nonprofits, community and busi- Nonprofit Needs List had showcased enormous uptick in people that ness leaders, professional advisors, vol- more than $35 million in requests from unteers and residents for one purpose: nonprofits. And while specific needs want to start their own business. to make giving both easy and impactful shifted and evolved over time, every It may be simply because they’re by matching local nonprofits’ needs with category of nonprofit work – food and unemployed and it’s really difficult the people and organizations that can shelter, health and wellness, education, to find employment, so they feel meet them. And if ever there was a right arts and culture, animal welfare and that one of their options is to start time to pair givers with recipients, a more – was covered. worldwide pandemic is it. a small business in their area of Community Foundation is working with expertise.” As COVID-19 took hold in Tampa- educators to provide internet access to Hillsborough and needs grew exponen- families without it and partnering with tially, local nonprofits were caught in local organizations to establish college a no-win situation – hurting financially and career centers where adults who themselves at the very moment their may have lost their jobs as a result of services were needed most. Not surpris- the pandemic can learn about avail- ingly, says Marlene Spalten, Community able college courses and technical Foundation’s president and CEO, “The training programs to help them secure needs were tremendous and across a re-employment. broad spectrum. “We know too that mental health is So, one of Community Foundation’s first going to be a huge issue as we come tasks was to partner with a number of out of this,” says Spalten, “and so we’re nonprofits early on and create a path- piloting some tele-mental health proj- way for people to quickly get the help ects to, hopefully, help erase the stigma they needed. surrounding mental health issues so that people will seek help when they need it Among the foundation’s early tasks was and not take more drastic measures.” to create the “Nonprofit Needs List,” a centralized list of local nonprofits’ Recovering from a pandemic is a tall greatest needs during the pandemic order, but Spalten remains optimistic. and attach to them the specific dollar “People throughout Tampa Bay have amounts needed to fund each project. been generously supporting neighbors in Donors were then encouraged to either need to the extent they can in so many contact the nonprofits directly to fund different ways.”
64 NOVEMBER 2020 TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY PORTRAIT / FLORIDA TREND CUSTOM CONTENT BY THE NUMBERS 2019, a banner year for Hillsborough County’s tourism sector:
24.5 M Total visitors 9.2 M Overnight visitors $4.5 B Visitor spending $2.5 B Wages generated by tourism
YOGA IN THE PARK $967 M Taxes supported by tourism PHOTO COURTESY TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH EDC HILLSBOROUGH TAMPA COURTESY PHOTO
A GREAT PLACE TO PLAY ANYTIME WE HAVE LIVE If Visit Tampa Bay President and CEO • A bike ride through nature just outside ENTERTAINMENT Santiago Corrada had to choose one the city at Upper Tampa Bay Park or word to describe the tourism industry in Lower Hillsborough Wilderness Reserve. THE CULTURAL TYPE: Tampa-Hillsborough, it might well be this: resilient. Tourism-wise, 2019 was a record- • A visit to Hillsborough River State Park, Tampa’s Straz Center for the breaker for Tampa-Hillsborough: 24.5 mil- 20-minutes northeast of the city for Performing Arts offers one of the lion visitors pumped almost $7 billion into fishing, camping, canoeing, kayaking, nation’s leading Broadway series, the local economy, creating nearly 55,000 hiking, birding or just hanging out with plus performances by Opera Tampa jobs, generating $2.5 billion in total wages nature. and saving every household in the county and The Florida Orchestra; and an an estimated $840 in state and local taxes. • And of course, the beaches Florida is honest-to-goodness old-time movie And as the calendar rolled over to a new famous for. palace: The Tampa Theatre, circa year, there was every reason to believe 1926, hosting contemporary films and that 2020’s tourism numbers would be And there’s lots to enjoy in and around equally impressive. downtown Tampa too. A stroll along the classic movies. Riverwalk takes you past four must-see THE ROWDIER TYPE: But then along came COVID-19 in mid- attractions: Glazer Children’s Museum, this March and Tampa’s tourism industry, along year celebrating 10 years of play for adults Spectator sports, including Tampa with the rest of the world’s leading leisure and kids in 2020; the Tampa Art Museum, Bay Buccaneers football led by markets, tanked. “After that precipitous featuring classical antiquities, decorative legendary quarterback Tom Brady; drop in March and a horrific April, says arts and sculpture, 20th century photog- the MLB Tampa Bay Rays, making Corrada, “we’ve seen a steady increase.” raphy and more; the Florida Aquarium, th marking its 25th anniversary in 2020 and their 6 trip to the American League “We want people who come here to feel ranked one of the top 5 kid-friendly aquar- Division Series since 2008, hoping that they’re going to vacation in a safe, iums in the U.S. by Parents magazine; and for a World Series berth; and the healthy way.” So instead of hawking the Tampa Bay History Center, three floors National Hockey League’s Tampa Bay just the usual bustling theme parks and of exhibits exploring stories and personali- jam-packed restaurants and bars, Tampa’s ties from Florida’s past. Lightning, who brought the Stanley expanding to feature wide open spaces, Cup home to Tampa in September smaller crowds (or none at all) and lots of Just a short drive away: The Museum of 2020 for the second time in social distancing. Science and Industry (MOSI), an interac- franchise history. tive, scientific playground of sorts, where So while theme parks and other attrac- you can pedal a bike on a 1-inch cable tions are still prominently displayed on suspended 30 feet above the ground, lie Visit Tampa Bay’s website, so too is a guide on a bed of nails and build a robot; and to exploring Tampa-Hillsborough’s natural ZooTampa, voted No. 1 Best Zoo for Kids wonders. Among the suggestions: by Parents Magazine, offering up-close encounters with a stingray, a rhino, a • A stroll along Tampa’s Bayshore giraffe and more. And if you’re into theme Boulevard – the world’s longest con- parks, Tampa has those too: Busch Gardens tinuous sidewalk –leading from the with 200 animals and nine coasters (a 10th Riverwalk downtown through Tampa’s is coming in 2021) and practically next historic Hyde Park neighborhood to the door, its slightly tamer but wetter cousin, pier at Ballast Point. Adventure Island water park. PHOTO DIRK SHADD PHOTO
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Addison Davis PEOPLE TO KNOW Superintendent, Hillsborough County Public Schools Develop your community relationships David Deno in Tampa / Hillsborough County. CEO, Bloomin’ Brands Inc. Dan Doyle Jr. CEO, Dex Imaging Paul Anderson CEO, Port Tampa Bay Tash Elwyn President & CEO John Anthony Raymond James & Associates Managing Partner, Anthony & Partners Gregory Celestan CEO, Celestar Corporation Lee Evans Kenneth Atwater Executive Director, Bristol-Myers President, Hillsborough Community Squibb College Colleen Chappell John Flanagan Ron Barton President & CEO, CEO, CareerSource Tampa Bay Assistant County Administrator for ChappellRoberts Economic Prosperity, Hillsborough Conan Gallaty County President, Times Publishing
Michelle Bauer Ravi Chari Chief Operating Officer, Tampa Bay President, HCA West Economic Development Council Florida Division Jim Garey Director, Florida Institute Steve Bonner of Oceanography President, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa Scott Garlick General Richard D. Managing Principal Tampa, Cushman Andrew Brown Clarke & Wakefield Managing Partner, Macfarlane Commander, USSOCOM Ferguson & McMullen Cary Gaylord Santiago Corrada Managing Partner, Gaylord Merlin Nancy Bryan President & CEO, Visit Tampa Bay Ludovici & Diaz President & CEO, BioFlorida Brett Couch Kenneth A. Burdick President - East Region, Regions Bank CEO, WellCare John Couris Roger Germann President & CEO, Florida President/CEO, Tampa General Kevin Burgoyne Aquarium President, Florida Venture Forum Hospital Gwen Cummings Bill Goede Bill Carlson Tampa President, Bank of America President, Tucker Hall, Inc. Executive Director, Tampa Site Lead and GBS Strategy, Amgen Richard Gonzmart President, Columbia Restaurant
David Green Jane Castor Executive Director, Tampa Bay Area Mayor, City of Tampa Steven Currall Regional Transit Authority President, USF Mark Catchur Lee Green Tampa Managing Partner, Shumaker, William Dalton Vice President, Moffitt Cancer Center Loop & Kendrick LLP Founder & Executive Chair , M2Gen Steve Griggs President, Tampa Bay Lightning
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Judith Lisi James Nozar HERE’S WHAT SOME LOCALS SAY: President & CEO, David A. Straz, Jr. CEO, Strategic Property Partners “All the different neighborhoods – like Center for the Performing Arts Michael Nursey Ybor City, Palma Ceia, Seminole Heights, Chad Loar Market President, TD Bank West Tampa” Regional President - Florida, PNC Bank
“The sense of community with local Dr. Charles Lockwood businesses working together” Senior VP, USF Health “The people – friendly and welcoming” Tad Phelps CEO, Fintech “The weather” Joseph Lopano David Pizzo “So many things happening, so many CEO, Tampa International Market President - West Florida places to go” Airport Region, Florida Blue
“Being surrounded by beautiful water” Rick Lott Walter Precourt III “Bayshore Boulevard” Mayor, City of Plant City Sr. VP Strategy & Growth, Mosaic “Seeing dolphins, manatees and R. Craig Mayfield Tom Rametta pelicans on a regular basis” Managing Partner, Bradley Law, President, Ultimate Medical Academy Tampa “Beautiful parks and beaches to enjoy” Lynda Remund Frank McCafferty President & CEO, Tampa Downtown “MacDill Air Force Base and veterans” Executive Managing Director, Savills Partnership “The way this city attracts young people Occupier Services with its job growth” Michael McConnell “Visionaries who initiated the Riverwalk Executive Director, Cyber Florida Craig Richard and neighborhood partnerships” CEO, Tampa Bay Seth McKeel Economic Development Managing Partner, The Southern “City days at Sparkman Wharf, boat Council Group days at Beer Can Island” Tim Rivers Elizabeth Miller “Cuban sandwiches and Dairy Joy” Florida Market Director, JLL President & CEO, Centene Florida “Gasparilla” Eileen Rodriguez Gregg Morton Regional Director, Small Business Managing Director, Citi Development Center at USF
Sandra Murman Bob Rohrlack Commissioner, Hillsborough County President & CEO, The Tampa Bay Chamber Jessica Muroff CEO, United Way Suncoast Gary Sasso President/CEO, Carlton Fields Brian Murphy Founder, ReliaQuest Michael Schultz President & CEO, Advent Health West Florida Division
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Rapid innovation requires today’s Yvette Segura Jeff Vinik VP & GM Tampa Campus, USAA Owner, Tampa Bay Lightning manufacturers to increasingly rely on advanced technology, Jeffrey Senese Joe Waggoner and they need workers skilled President, Saint Leo University Executive Director, Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority in that technology. In Tampa, Mark Sharpe the Manufacturing Alliance of Bob Ward Executive Director, Tampa Innovation Hillsborough County helps pair Partnership President & CEO, Florida Council of 100 up employers needing skills with Matthew Silverman the potential employees who President, Tampa Bay Rays Nancy Watkins Principal, Robert Watkins & Co. have them. Working through the Marlene Spalten Manufacturing Alliance, job seekers Ron Weaver President & CEO, Community can find the training they need and Foundation of Tampa Bay Of Counsel, Stearns Weaver Miller manufacturers have ready access Jill St. Thomas David Weinstein to their talent. The Alliance works Executive Director, Tampa Bay Tech Managing Shareholder Tampa, Greenberg Traurig with the Hillsborough County Charles E. Sykes School District to offer programs President & CEO, Sykes Enterprises Jim Weiss in robotics, engineering, machining Tampa City President, Fifth Third Bank Lorna Taylor technology and other workforce President & CEO, Premier Eye Care Bill West skills and with Hillsborough President & CEO, The Bank of Tampa Community College, where Rachid Zahidi students can received instruction President & CEO, Sentinel Screening/ in automation, drafting, industrial Sentinel Background Checks management, lean manufacturing, Troy Taylor pneumatics, pipefitting, welding CEO, Coca-Cola Florida technology and many other Gif Thornton workforce skills. Managing Partner, Adams Reese
Neal Thurman Park President, Busch Gardens
Nancy Tower President & CEO, Tampa Electric
Ronald Vaughn President, University of Tampa
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