Companies that ‘become St. Pete’ shine at annual meeting

Local business development stakeholders celebrated St. Petersburg's continued success in attracting new and expanding companies Wednesday evening. They also heard how keeping or losing the Tampa Bay Rays will create significant economic impacts.

The St. Petersburg Area Economic Development Corporation (EDC) chose the city’s increasing wealth of “innovation, transformation and collaboration” as the overarching theme of its seventh annual meeting. The organization - now entering a new era - also showcased companies that “become St. Pete.”

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Chris Thile plays mandolin and is also a composer, a singer, an arranger … and a collaborator.

Because this master musician's roots are in bluegrass, he and his bandmates in Nickel Creek – siblings Sara and Sean Watkins on guitar and fiddle, respectively – were part of the 1980s and ‘90s movement to take the classic Appalachian acoustic music into dazzling and ambitious new directions.

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