Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major American city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of Florida. It serves as its county seatGR6. The population within the city limits in 2005, according to the Hillsborough County Planning Commission, was 333,040; making it the third largest city in the state, following Jacksonville and Miami.

Tampa is a part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan area, most commonly referred to as the "Tampa Bay area". The four-county area is composed of roughly 2.6 million residents, making it the second largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the state behind Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, the third largest in the Southeastern United States, and the twelfth largest DMA Market in the United States.

1 Local economy
2 Recent Tampa business news
3 See also
4 External links

Local economy

Like much of Florida, Tampa's economy is heavily based on services and tourism. There is a huge net influx of cash into the area. Many wealthy people have winter houses here, and the upscale Tampa Palms neighborhood is a desirable destination for retired professional athletes. Many corporations, such as large banks and telecommunications companies, maintain regional offices in Tampa, and the city is an extremely popular location for call centers.

The downtown area is also undergoing a large transformation to be mostly completed in time for the hosting of the Superbowl in 2009 with over 43 condo, hotel, and mixed-use developments proposed/approved/under construction as of October 2005. An earlier list by the city of Tampa includes large developments that have been approved and/or are under construction. A large portion of these projects have multiple towers to compensate for the high land values in Downtown Tampa. The next tower currently under construction in the central business district is the Trump Tower Tampa, the largest residential tower on the Gulf Coast according to The Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Tampa's port is now the seventh largest in the nation and Florida’s largest tonnage port, handling nearly half of all seaborne commerce that passes through the state. Here the cruise industry thrives.[1]

Fortune 500 company Publix, a supermarket chain, is headquartered in nearby Lakeland, Florida.

Source - Wikipedia: Tampa, Florida

Recent Tampa business news

Links to recent headlines via Topix.net

Troubled Sarasota bank says turnaround this century: Under pressure from regulators, Century Bank is working to raise up to $30 million in new capital.
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Nova Brings New Jobs To New Campus: As Nova Southeastern University officials, members of the community, residents and professional students celebrate the Grand Opening and doubling in size of the schoolsa Tampa location, the community is also celebrating the economic impact locally.
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