Small businesses receive 297 contracts, $24.4 million

Pinellas County officials implemented a program to promote small businesses just as the area began experiencing explosive growth; it is now exceeding expectations.

Corey McCaster, the county’s new division director for the office of small business and supplier diversity, repeatedly expressed his excitement to relay the Small Business Enterprise (SBE) program’s success to commissioners during Thursday’s work session. Now in its third year, 716 vendors registered to participate, exceeding the established goal by 119%.

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Blood work: Giles Davies is Jobsite’s ‘Dracula’

The Steven Dietz adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic chiller Dracula has become the go-to stage version of the vampire saga for theaters across America. Unlike many big-screen re-imaginings, this Dracula retains the sexual underpinnings, the grim hopelessness and the stink of human decay that Stoker wove into his unsettling novel.

Jobsite Theater, in Tampa’s Straz Center for the Performing Arts, is two productions into a unique season of “greatest hits,” shows that performed spectacularly for the company in the past, and are being re-mounted in hopes of luring back audiences in pre-Covid-era numbers.

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