Friday's Daily Pulse

› Soccer fans support St. Petersburg stadium referendum [Tampa Bay Times]
The City Council chamber had plenty of soccer aficionados outfitted in green and gold show up last week to support the Tampa Bay Rowdies' bid to join Major League Soccer and expand their home at Al Lang Stadium.

› Siesta Beach ranked No. 1 by TripAdvisor [Sarasota Herald-Tribune]
TripAdvisor announced this week the winners of its Travelers' Choice awards for beaches and while Baia do Sancho, in Brazil, was ranked by the travel planning and booking site's reviewers as the global winner, Sarasota County's famed destination spot finished No. 1 in the U.S.

› Here are Miami-Dade’s five-star hotels — and there’s a newcomer [Miami Herald]
Forbes Travel Guide’s annual hotel awards celebrated inventiveness this year — so it’s no surprise it extended its five-star distinction to the wildly singular Faena Hotel Miami Beach.

› University of Florida hires contractor for football operations center [Florida Times-Union]
The University of Florida selected HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, to design a new three-story, 130,000-square foot football operations project and a dining hall for all of the university’s student-athletes.

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