If you are a tenant trying to navigate the best deal in your commercial lease, you need to understand the right of first refusal and how it could benefit you.  This is particularly important if you know that your company has the potential to grow rapidly.  Being stuck in a...

Whether you are starting a new practice, relocating an existing one, or taking over a practice, closing on your medical office space can be quite the ordeal if you aren’t prepared.  In order to ensure that you get a great deal on the right property in a timely manner, it is...

Despite what you may have been led to believe, not all commercial real estate agents are the same.  In fact, more often than not you will find that a good commercial real estate agent has a chosen niche in which he or she specializes.  As you can imagine, there are many...

With such a large number of seemingly qualified commercial real estate brokers on the market, making sure you choose the right one can come across as a daunting task. Knowing what to look for and what questions to ask is a necessary first step in ensuring that you secure the best...

(Written by Guest Blogger: Jessica Pajak, Content Production Manager, Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation) The Tampa Hillsborough EDC has just published a series of overviews featuring the most current information available on our regional assets and local target...

Tampa Bay will soon have funding from the federal government to help teach at-risk youths job skills. The Tampa Housing Authority is set to receive $1 million from the U.S. Department of Labor as part of its YouthBuild grant, which is focused on helping at-risk youths and young...

Recently, Newsweek released its rankings for America’s Top High Schools 2015, and two Tampa Bay area schools made the grade! St. Petersburg Collegiate High School (No. 48) and Palm Harbor University High (No. 302), which are both located in Pinellas County, were ranked...

Tampa Bay Innovation Center, an innovation and entrepreneurship center for technology businesses, will hold its July TECH Talk and quarterly Diary of an Entrepreneur program on Tuesday, July 14, at 8:30 a.m. at Microsoft Headquarters, 5426 Bay Center Dr., Suite 700, Tampa. The...

Study demonstrates that arts and cultural community is an economic driver for St. Petersburg The arts in St. Petersburg not only improve the city’s quality of life, they are an economic driver for the city. The city’s non-profit arts and cultural organizations fuel a direct and...

June 9, 2015  GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Optimism in the Florida real estate market remains strong among those in the business, according to the Survey of Emerging Market Conditions, conducted quarterly by the Kelley A. Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of...