How will hurricanes affect area real estate development?

Tampa Bay development industry stakeholders expect service demand and construction to cool in 2025, due to an unprecedented hurricane season’s impacts and higher costs.

However, they also believe even modest growth underscores the area's resilience to building hurdles. St. Petersburg-based developer Will Conroy, president of Backstreets Capital, and Tampa architect Jonathan Moore, president of InVision Advisors, shared those sentiments with the Catalyst following the latest local Voice of Architecture survey.

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USF president reflects on retirement, St. Pete project

The University of South Florida will soon have a new leader, as President Rhea Law announced her impending retirement Monday. Her successor will inherit a long-planned project on the St. Petersburg campus.

Law, USF's eighth president, never intended to shape the university's future when she accepted the interim role in August 2021. She has led the school to unprecedented heights since the board of trustees appointed her to the permanent position in March 2022.

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