News

New office construction coming to downtown St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg is about to get 373,000 square feet of new office space.

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$42M Tampa software deal sets the table for restaurant efficiencies

Healthy margins and low customer turnover are two of the reasons Par Technology Corp. struck a deal to buy Tampa software developer Restaurant Magic for $42 million.

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Here’s how Tampa-St. Pete community banks did in Q3

Most locally based community banks are on track to have a more profitable year in 2019 than in 2018.

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Media

PitchLyst Startup Report: Episode #043

Frank Fiume of i9 Sports joins Catalyst publisher Joe Hamilton in the studio.

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Culture

Chris Crawford freefalls into a new life in St. Petersburg

Just as the one-man comedy Buyer and Cellar was coming to a close last spring at freeFall Theater, actor Chris Crawford got an offer he couldn’t refuse. Would he consider a full-time gig as the theater’s very first Associate Artistic Director?

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The Shuffle

Renee Jones
Freedom Bank

Zaps

The Hustle

Melissa Nicholas

Melissa Nicholas is using her childhood growing up is a strict religious community in rural Florida as fodder for her very first stand-up comedy special, "Girls Can't Be Pastors."

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Community Voices

Community Voices: The Interesting Walk

"The acclaimed urban planner Jeff Speck, who will speak at the Palladium Theater Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m., taught me why I’m such a cheap date," writes Monica Kile.

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Influencer

Darden Rice
St. Pete City Council

Focus: Commerce Park

St. Pete alters approach to Commerce Park development

Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.

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Events

Nov. 13

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Nov. 21

Blackstone Group buys majority stake in Bumble parent company [Axios]

The Blackstone Group agreed to buy a majority stake in Magic Lab, the owner of dating apps Bumble and Badoo, at an enterprise value of around $3 billion.

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