The city's redevelopment efforts have been dealt another blow. St. Petersburg-based developer Grady Pridgen, who planned to build a massive retail and residential complex with condos, shops and offices overlooking the Pithlachascotee River, has put the property on the market, leaving the future of the project uncertain. ...more

June 21, 2008

The city's redevelopment efforts have been dealt another blow. St. Petersburg-based developer Grady Pridgen, who planned to build a massive retail and residential complex with condos, shops and offices overlooking the Pithlachascotee River, has put the property on the market, leaving the future of the project uncertain. ...more

June 20, 2008

When talking about projects that will transform neighborhoods, the buzz in Tampa these days is all about the changes coming to downtown's entryway: a new Tampa Museum of Art, the Glazer Children's Museum, a new Riverwalk, a remodeled Ashley Drive and a redesigned Curtis Hixon Park. ...more

May 27, 2008

DOWNTOWN - The 6.3-acre Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, next the Tampa Marriott Waterside along Garrison Channel, could receive funding for its final phase. The city council will be asked Thursday to approve more than $2.8 million for the project, parks and recreation director Karen Palus said. The work includes adding 600 linear feet to the city's Riverwalk, and creating a Heroes Plaza to honor firefighters, law enforcement officers, rescue workers and military personnel killed in the line of duty. ...more

May 12, 2008

Improvements Needed Regarding "Plan Is No Walk In The Park" (Feb. 8): The concept of a Riverwalk, river park or river culture center highlighting the Hillsborough River is a wonderful and exciting concept. However, several things about the project as now presented should be improved. ...more

February 16, 2008

Every now and then, a list of some sort comes out showing Tampa somewhere near the bottom of whatever quality the list is ranking. ...more

January 29, 2008

The Port of Tampa already serves fast-growing Central Florida, but it will be positioned to serve markets in South Florida by 2015 when the Panama Canal expansion is completed, a canal authority official said Wednesday. ...more

January 24, 2008

It seems like something's always brewing in downtown. There are condo towers going up, projects being planned (and then scrapped) and a vision that is slowly coming into focus. Here's a wrap-up of the three big newsmakers in 2007. ...more

December 25, 2007

$300,000 Tampa Riverwalk Construction $1 Million TECO Line Streetcar Extension ...more

December 20, 2007

Tampa will get $300,000 for a new segment of its Riverwalk and $1 million to extend the TECO Line Streetcar System to the central business district under a huge spending measure given final passage Wednesday by the U.S. House. ...more

December 20, 2007