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Here’s how I see it: Tampa is very much a growing, entrepreneurial destination (thank you Forbes) because its former causes for disdain are now selling points. The local market, for almost…

I departed on August 28, 2015, and reentered Tampa Bay airspace in the early morning of December 21, 2016. In those months, new things have popped up all around town—breaking…

Wow. What an interesting month it has been. Aside from all my normal duties at work, blogging, and with the Gasparilla Arts Festival, I’ve given tours, had Sunday brunch meetings,…

It’s amazing what you can learn about a city’s neighborhoods with free online tools. Trulia shows homes for sale or under foreclosure, Google Streetview presents quality curbside imagery, and in…

When Google first introduced Streetview (mid 2007), a photographic documenting of nearly every street in every major city across the US, its quality was not great. Pictures were grainy, lighting…