TAMPA, Fla.—The Tampa Port Authority is pleased to announce that one of its major cement and aggregate tenants, Andino Cements USA, LLC (subsidiary of Cementos Andino Dominicanos), engaged in humanitarian efforts to bring critical relief to the people of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, January 18—20.
Because of damaged, unusable port facilities at Port-au-Prince, Dominican Republic-based Cementos Andino opened [...]

TAMPA, FL – January 29, 2010 – Tampa Bay & Company recently received the prestigious 2010 Readers’ Choice Award from ConventionSouth magazine. ConventionSouth asked meeting professionals to name the convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), convention centers, conference centers, hotels, resorts and other meeting sites that they believe display exemplary creativity and professionalism to groups. [...]

Southwest, Florida . . . This Polo season, Coral Pleas, owner of Cutting Loose Salon, has spent her weekends away from her cultivated stable of talented and hip hair stylists who style and maintain the manes of Sarasota’s movers and shakers, to search for the most well coiffed pony at Sarasota Polo Club.
Congratulations to the [...]

January 29, 2010 (Tampa, FL) On Monday, February 1st, the Swedish tall ship “Gunilla” will sail into Tampa Bay and be secured in port alongside the American Victory Ship. T/S Gunilla will stay in port from the 1st through the 7th.
The 165 ft. ship is crewed by 11 professional sailors and 44 Swedish [...]

TAMPA (January, 29, 2010) – The University of South Florida men’s soccer team will hold an open walk on try-out on Feb. 10 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the USF Soccer training ground located between the Intercollegiate Athletics Facility (IAF) and the USF Soccer Stadium.
Attendees must be full time students of USF – as per NCAA [...]

(TAMPA, FLORIDA, USA, 29 JANUARY 2009) – ISPE’s 2010 Tampa Conference, themed “Applying Solutions to Emerging Industry Challenges,” will include education sessions on inspection readiness, oral solid dosage, lean project delivery using commissioning and qualification and GAMP 5 Guides, technology transfer, and containment technology, as well as HVAC, Water, and GAMP® 5 training courses.
Highlights of [...]

Lutz, Florida–The Pasco Economic Development Council (PEDC) announced today that Florida Design Consultants, Inc. has become a Corporate Council Investor ($10,000). As a Corporate Council level investor, Florida Design Consultants (FDC) will receive a seat on the PEDC Board of Directors, which will be held by Ms. Elizabeth Lyon-Hall, Senior Planner & Business Development. [...]

Hillsborough County Commissioners are seeking residents to serve on several County citizen advisory boards and councils. Residents interested in seeking appointment must be registered voters in Hillsborough County. These are voluntary positions, and members serve without compensation. The deadline for applying is Thursday, Feb. 25. Appointments will be scheduled for a meeting of [...]

SARASOTA, FL ─ Warren G. Simonds, LEED® AP, Chief Marketing Officer for Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc., a Sarasota based Construction Management firm, and his wife Kathy, are among the honorary hosts for the 3rd Annual heart & Soul Gala and Live Art Auction. Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc., is the Masterpiece sponsor for the [...]

TAMPA – Commercial Florida Advisors, an advisory firm which is affiliated with Grubb & Ellis|Commercial Florida, and 130 Grubb & Ellis offices worldwide, recently named John Beil its commercial property appraiser.
Don Lombardi, ALC, vice president who heads Commercial Florida Advisors, based in Tampa with offices in Orlando and Melbourne, said Beil is a Florida certified [...]

SAINT LEO –– Saint Leo University (www.saintleo.edu) has reached a new growth milestone, enrolling more than 15,000 students in the current semester.
The final enrollment count for Spring Semester shows that 15,041 individuals are studying at Saint Leo, either on a full-time or part-time basis. The student body extends well beyond the population at the university’s [...]

Tampa, FL – January 8, 2010 – Richard Boydack, P.E. has joined Hamilton Engineering & Surveying, Inc. as Project Manager. Mr. Boydack is a civil engineer with over 22 years of experience as a consultant on numerous large scale land development projects. Mr. Boydack was formerly a Project Engineer and Manager with Heidt [...]