For 55 years, Hillsborough County and its three cities have benefited from a public-private partnership to generate new jobs and raise the per capita income of residents. ...more

November 7, 2009

Luring Draper Laboratory cost $20 million, but local government leaders are hoping the millions spent to bring the research company to Tampa will pay huge dividends. ...more

October 27, 2009

Draper Laboratory has purchased a 41,000-square-foot building in St. Petersburg where the Cambridge, Mass.-based company will manufacture microchips for the military and government agencies, city officials announced. ...more

December 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- Boston-based Draper Laboratory has purchased a 41,000-square-foot building in St. Petersburg where it will manufacture microchips for the military and government agencies, city officials announced. The purchase price was not disclosed. ...more

December 12, 2008

Tax money given as an incentive to a private business to create jobs raises the question of how taxpayers at large will benefit from the deal. ...more

October 28, 2008

New England-based Draper Laboratory has started making an imprint in the Bay area, hiring highly skilled researchers and moving into more permanent office space in St. Petersburg and Tampa. ...more

October 22, 2008

Draper Laboratory made it official Monday. Executives with the Massachusetts-based, nonprofit research corporation acknowledged that it will build labs worth $30 million at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a new microchip manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg. ...more

July 29, 2008

Draper Laboratory made it official today. The Massachusetts-based research corporation announced that it will open an estimated $20 million research center at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a microchip manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg. ...more

July 28, 2008

The research group SRI International in St. Petersburg plans to announce a major research project with the U.S. Navy for sensors that rapidly make three-dimensional underwater maps showing features as small as a soda can. ...more

July 26, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners are expected to vote today on $6 million in funding to lure a Massachusetts-based high-tech firm company open a research and product-development laboratory at the University of South Florida. ...more

July 16, 2008