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Tampa coffee roaster Buddy Brew plans to transform a vacant storefront on Bay to Bay Boulevard. The former home of Klikfit at 3302 W. Bay to Bay Blvd. will be split between the coffee shop and Chill Brothers Ice Cream, a scoop shop that recently opened its first location in Ybor City, according to city building permits. Buddy Brew will occupy two-thirds of the building, with Chill Brothers taking up the rest of the space, permits show. Klikfit, an exercise studio, shuttered around mid-year. "We…

St. Petersburg's plan to reinvent the struggling area of Commerce Park includes building a new African American museum. Through the "Deuces Rising" plan that St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman announced earlier this week to bring new life into the 22nd Street corridor, part of the plan will be building a new Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum on a city-owned, 5-acre lot along 22nd St. South, also known as the Deuces. The current location for the museum is on 9th Ave.

Philadelphia-based on-demand delivery startup goPuff, which launched in Tampa in October, has released its trends report, giving a snapshot of what its customers are ordering locally and nationwide. Operating in more than 150 locations, goPuff looked at data from hundreds of thousands of orders from November 2018 to November 2019. Here’s how Tampa ordered from goPuff:. Snacks: Flamin' Hot Cheetos and Funyuns. Ice Cream: M&Ms Vanilla Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich and Ben & Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake. Home...

If you have holiday travel plans, then you'll want to take note of this: AAA forecasts 115.6 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more between Saturday, Dec. 21 and Wednesday, Jan. 1 — the largest travel volume since AAA began tracking it in 2000. Of that total, 6.1 million Floridians will travel over the holidays, 300,000 more than last year.

From The Lab to Buddy Brew and Kawha, Tampa Bay is jammed packed with local coffee shops. To help make deciding which one to visit easier, and to provide more alternative places to work from, Tampa Bay Business Journal compiled a list of the 10 highest-rated coffee roasteries, according to Yelp. The list is based off Yelp’s best rated filter and includes companies listed as coffee roasteries.

Leadership St. Pete, one of the oldest leadership development programs in the nation, has announced its class of 2020. The class, which consists of 40 business leaders in the St. Petersburg area, will officially start with an opening retreat on Jan. 10 and 11, 2020.

Tampa Bay Business Journal looked at the median debt that bachelor’s degrees from The University of Tampa and St. Petersburg College leave its graduates with, as part of a series looking at the median debt and starting salaries bachelor’s degrees from Tampa Bay colleges carry. A graduate from UT can enter the workforce with a median debt between just over $21,000 to $27,000.

When it came time to look for a fourth office, Boston-based Drift had a short list of the emerging tech hubs across the nation: Denver, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Tampa. "We did an extensive search not only in the U.S. but also Canada and Europe," CEO David Cancel said.

U.S. Travel economists noted that historically, business travel typically declines before leisure travel does as the country heads into an economic slowdown, which is why the October dip is "possibly a worrisome harbinger for the broader economy."

In a federal lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages, a Tennessee man is accusing Florida’s largest medical marijuana operator of illegally sending text messages to his cell phone. The lawsuit alleges that Quincy-based Trulieve Inc. violated federal communications laws by sending unsolicited text messages to Mats Jaslow that advertised special deals on marijuana products in October and November. The lawsuit does not say whether Jaslow is a patient in Florida or how Trulieve, one of the...

A Wesley Chapel retail shopping center that was recently sold is now tapped to have a shipping container park similar to Sparkman Wharf in downtown Tampa's Channel district. Mishorim-Gold Properties, a partnership between commercial real estate investor Mark Gold and Mishorim Real Estate, recently bought The Grove property for $62.7 million.

Tampa and St. Petersburg both fell on list of the cities with the most successful immigrant integration efforts in the U.S. The Big Guava is now No. 92, falling from the 84th spot last year, on the New American Economy Cities Index of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. The ranking is based on studies of local immigration policies and socioeconomic outcomes of immigrants compared to their U.S.-born neighbors.

Meridian Development Group, a Tampa-based commercial real estate agency, has sold three units of Meridian Concourse Center in Clearwater, a four-building office and flex/industrial complex, for $15.3 million. The buyer, Albany Road Real Estate Partners, bought three of the buildings, 4400, 4600 and 4800 140th Ave., while the fourth was sold for $6 million to APG in a separate transaction in July.

A Boston-based marketing tech firm is expanding to Tampa. Drift announced it will open its fourth U.S. office in Tampa, following its expansion into San Francisco and Seattle. The company, which has 280 employees, plans to hire roughly 100 for its Tampa office by 2021. The new office is located at 401 E. Jackson St. "We recognized that we needed to expand our footprint and seek out a location with a budding tech scene and a diverse talent pool,” said founder and CEO David Cancel in a statement.…

The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority will increase its fleet of electric buses and invest in the technology to power them. On Wednesday, the PSTA board unanimously approved a $192,000 contract for the installation of fast-charging electric bus infrastructure at its headquarters. The 250 kilowatt Inductive Wireless Charging System charges the battery of an electric vehicle wirelessly through a charging pad/plate embedded in the roadway at PSTA. PSTA currently has two electric buses that have...

The United States' date with the FIFA World Cup is still seven years away — but the competition between cities vying for matches already is fierce. Orlando is among 17 U.S. cities that all want to welcome several of the 80 matches to their regions — with the potential of generating at least $400 million in economic impact for host cities.

Each year, the Florida Department of Education ranks K-12 schools by mathematics, English language/art, science and social studies scores. This year, a Sarasota school scored the best, followed by Pasco, Manatee and Polk counties' schools. The first Hillsborough school came in at No. 7 and the first Pinellas ranked at No. 10. Tampa Bay’s top school scored 1030 points, 94 percent of possible points, while the region's worst school had a score of 665, 73 percent of the possible points. The…

Venice-based PGT Innovations has acquired a Tampa door and window manufacturer in a $92 million all-cash deal. PGT Innovations, a door and window manufacturer and one of the largest public companies in the state, acquired NewSouth Window Solutions, the company announced Tuesday. NewSouth Window Solutions manufactures and installs energy-efficient doors and windows as well as non-resistant windows and doors for residential projects.

A West Florida startup is the latest to receive an investment from Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik. Bridge Connector, which is based in Palm Beach Gardens and has offices in Nashville and San Francisco, received $5 million from Vinik. He joined Axioma Ventures for a total $25 million fundraising round. Bridge Connector is a health tech company, focusing on creating a system to connect data systems quickly and cost efficiently. The latest funding will help the company continue to scale and…

The Florida Aquarium will soon harvest the power of the sun as partner TECO installs a new solar-powered rooftop and canopies. "We were faced with the opportunity to refresh or upgrade our existing canopy structures over two habitats," Florida Aquarium COO Andy Wood told the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The aquarium initiated the conversation with TECO nearly a year ago about installing solar panels for the habitats — the coral reef habitat, which houses the sand tiger sharks and where guests...

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