Community Foundation Tampa Bay President and CEO Marlene Spalten plans to retire in June 2027 after nearly 14 years of growth and expanded community impact. During Spalten’s tenure, the regional ...

2026 has already been an eventful year for the St. Petersburg Innovation District. It reached the 10th-anniversary milestone, created a road map for future growth with its first-ever master plan, and ...

Phase II of Ybor City 7th Avenue rebricking is complete (City of Tampa) At a glance, it looks like a simple swap: asphalt out, brick in.But the latest phase of re-bricking Seventh Avenue in Ybor City ...

Growing up on St. Petersburg’s southside, Pat Mack went fishing with his grandfather at the St. Pete Pier and taught himself computer programming out of Byte magazine. He developed a connection with ...

When Erica Moody stepped into the executive director and CEO role at the University Area Community Development Corporation recently, it was not a new beginning. It was the continuation of a journey ...

For a quarter century and counting, the Prodigy Cultural Arts Program has helped young people discover their voice, confidence, and capacity to lead. University Area Community Development Corporation ...

Wesley Chapel Library is already a community gathering space (Provided by Pasco County Libraries) Sunlight pours through tall windows. Children settle into cozy reading nooks. Families wander down ...

On a recent Friday morning, a westbound TECO Line Streetcar rolled through Ybor City, passing the occasional wandering rooster. At the front, Connie Cosme, who’s worked with the streetcar system since ...

Two Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) bike-ped projects for crossing Tampa Bay between Hillsborough and Pinellas counties are slated to come online this year. The long-awaited shared-use ...

Mise en Place's new location in Ybor City (Carole Devillers) Mise en Place's cocktail hour is 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday (Carole Devillers) In the food world, trends come and go. The ...

2020 was supposed to be the year Kiva Williams returned to the workforce after five years as a stay-at-home mom. She was turning 40 and ready to reclaim her professional identity. Then the COVID-19 ...

Art Week Tampa returns February 18th-22nd with events and exhibitions happening downtown, in Seminole Heights, at USF, and, of course, in Ybor City. The multi-day sampler of the city’s arts scene ...