Area architects express cautious optimism for growth opportunities

Economic and personnel challenges are tempering optimism for the development industry’s economic growth in 2024, according to the latest local Voice of Architecture survey.

The Tampa Bay chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) conducted the sixth annual survey in February. The organization, which includes 700 regional members, will discuss the report’s findings tonight at the AIA Center for Architecture and Design in Tampa.

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Smuggler Steve Lamb dies; upcoming film tells his story

Steve Lamb, the St. Pete Beach native whose drug-smuggling exploits made him a counterculture hero - and a convicted felon - died Feb. 28 while in hospice care, following a lengthy illness. He was 71.

Stephen Garrett Lamb was a member of the Steinhatchee Seven, arrested in 1973 after boating in nine tons of marijuana from Jamaica, and attempting to bring it ashore in rural Dixie County, north of Crystal River. For a time, it was the largest drug bust in United States history.

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