April 26, 2024

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| 9/20/2017

› Tampa Heights project gets $21.5 million in funding
The Tampa-based Heights Community Development District got a financial boost from a $21.5 million tax-exempt bond issue to fund the waterfront community being built along the Hillsborough River just north of downtown Tampa.

› Natural History Museum staff finishes 100-year celebration centerpiece
The final piece to a 1,200-pound puzzle was fastened into place Monday at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Museum exhibit fabricators Mike Adams and Eric Lange used a pulley system to raise the head of a 26-foot-long juvenile humpback whale skeleton about 20 feet in the air.

› Opinion: Gov. Scott’s resolution on the Maduro regime is a step toward protecting Florida businesses
Many Florida businesses have been actively engaged in the transportation of basic necessities like food, hygiene products and vital drugs to Venezuela and will be able to continue to do so.

› Legoland Florida adding virtual reality to coaster
Virtual reality is coming to Legoland Florida. The Winter Haven theme park is revamping its existing Project X roller coaster into a new experience called The Great Lego Race VR Coaster. Story - with photo gallery - here.

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