Amazon HQ2 To Tampa Bay
Amazon HQ2 belongs in Tampa Bay! St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn make a great case for our region in this video included in Tampa Bay's pitch to Amazon.
To watch the video, click the image above or click here.
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Don't miss WestFest, the first event to celebrate West St. Pete's local flavor with 40+ vendors! Experience its restaurants, brewery, shops, health & wellness providers + a Night Makers Market, DJ, kids activities, and more at freeFall Theatre Company, the gorgeous venue for this "Best of the West" celebration! #WestFestStPete
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
October 21 through October 28, 2017
| Saturday, October 21, 7:00 am |
Early Bird Trail Run, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Saturday, October 21, 8:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Out of the Darkness, South Straub Park
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| Saturday, October 21, 10:00 am |
7th Annual St. Petersburg Science Festival, USF St. Petersburg
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| Saturday, October 21, 6:00 pm |
Hocus Pocus "Sunscreen Halloween" Outdoor Movies at WIP DTSP, Williams Park
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| Saturday October 21, 6:00 pm |
St. Petersburg Fire Rescue Haunted House, Fire Station #7
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| Sunday, October 22, 9:00 am |
Sing and Stroll, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Sunday, October 22, 2:00 pm |
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| Tuesday, October 24, 5:00 pm |
Creative Pinellas Public Arts Meeting, Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum
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| Tuesday, October 24, 6:00 pm |
Sustainability Film Series: Weather Gone Bad, USF St. Petersburg
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| Wednesday, October 25, 3:30 pm |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Habitat for Humanity New Home Dedication
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| Wednesday, October 25, 5:15 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, Ribbon Cutting, ActionCOACH Tampa Bay
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| Wednesday, October 25, 6:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, EMBRACE - an anti-bullying production, John Hopkins Middle School
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| Thursday, October 26, 5:30 pm |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Welcome Event, Allyson Leggett Watson, PhD, USF-St. Pete Dean of Education, The Edge & Coquina Hall
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| Thursday, October 26, 6:00 pm |
St. Petersburg Preservation's Movies in the Park, North Straub Park
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| Thursday, October 26, 7:00 pm |
Anthony Hamilton, Mahaffey Theater
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| Thursday, October 26, 7:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, ArtsXchange Grand Opening, Warehouse ArtsXchange Annex Gallery
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| Friday, October 27, 5:30 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Weekly Challenger 50th Anniversary Event, The Coliseum
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| Friday, October 27, 7:00 pm |
Night Hikes, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Friday, October 27, 7:00 pm |
Florida Soul: Little Jack and the Soul Searchers, The Palladium
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| Friday, October 27, 7:00 pm |
Field of Screams, Boyd Hill Environmental Studies Area
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| Saturday, October 28, 10:00 am |
St. Petersburg Preservation's Westward Ho to Historic Kenwood Tour, Craftsman House Gallery
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| Saturday, October 28, 10:30 am |
Desert Roses, Sunken Gardens
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| Saturday, October 28, 5:00 pm |
Soul on the Deuces, 22nd Street & 9th Avenue
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| Saturday, October 28, 7:00 pm |
The Florida Orchestra Masterworks: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Mahaffey Theater
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Tuesday, October 17 |
I Love the Burg: Try Wine Opens New Downtown Location
Try Wine takes wine tasting to the next level. Now located at 1 Beach Drive SE ,#101, the self-serve wine bar features 88 wines on tap and over 600 hand curated wines in store.
With so many different wines, the self-serve wine bar is a great resource for everyone looking to understand wine better. The wine selection picks up where the mainstream wine bars leave off, allowing costumers to see something they won't see anywhere else.
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Wednesday, October 18 |
I Love the Burg: NuMex Brings Passion for the Pepper to Grand Central District
NuMex offers a nu twist on traditional New Mexican cuisine. The restaurant makes generous use of Hatch Valley chile peppers while infusing their own unique combination of flavors.
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Wednesday, October 18
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Tampa Bay Times: International array of artists chosen as finalists for pier project
A diverse group of six artists will compete for a chance to install their work at the city's multimillion-dollar Pier District, expected to open in early 2019.
Wednesday a committee appointed by the city's Public Arts Commission pared a list of 13 artists from the United States and Europe to six finalists. The committee also selected two alternates.
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Thursday, October 19 |
Tampa Bay Reporter: St. Pete Scores 100 on Equality Index
For the third year in a row, the city of St. Petersburg has scored a perfect 100 on the Human Rights Campaign's annual Municipal Equality Index.
St. Pete was one of four cities in Florida to receive a perfect score, out of the 18 Florida cities ranked. Tampa, the other Bay area city evaluated on the index, lagged behind St. Pete with a score of 86.
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Thursday, October 19 |
Tampa Bay Times: Find every new Shine festival mural in St. Petersburg with this map and photos
The leaves don't really change in Florida, but go outside and it's clearly that time of year when St. Petersburg's walls get a little more colorful.
The third annual Shine Mural Festival wrapped up this week as artists from around the world finished 14 new, urban murals scattered around the city's core.
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Thursday, October 19 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: Tampa Bay's pitch for Amazon's HQ2 is headed to Seattle
Tampa Bay is a talent magnet.
That's how Tampa Mayor
Bob Buckhorn
starts off the area's pitch to
Amazon.com
(NASDAQ: AMZN), in a video that's part of a response to the online retail giant's request for proposals for a second headquarters site, a $5 billion project that could employ up to 50,000 people at an average annual wage of more than $100,000.
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Thursday, October 19 |
Tampa Bay Times: Buckhorn, Kriseman team up in Tampa Bay pitch to Amazon
Across the United States, cities and metro areas are in a frenzied bidding war to convince Amazon their regions are the best fit for its new headquarters, HQ2.
The Tampa Bay area is no exception.
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