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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Rick Kriseman and St. Pete EDC head to San Francisco on first business development mission
For its first-ever business development trip, the Greater St. Petersburg Area Economic Development Corp. headed to San Francisco, the tech-business world’s pricey capital, with a pitch about another bay area where sticker shock is not so big an issue.
› Puerto Ricans find new home in Alachua County
Officials believe 500 Puerto Ricans have arrived in Alachua County as part of a mass migration from the island to the U.S. mainland.
› SpaceX selects new date for Block 5 Falcon 9 launch this week
The newest generation of Falcon 9, known as Block 5, was slated to launch from KSC’s pad 39A Monday afternoon, but the company has been reviewing data from a test firing of the rocket’s nine Merlin main engines since Friday.
› Tampa’s version of Central Park gets its finishing touches before Friday’s debut
Huge piles of mulch remain to be spread. The bocce ball court isn’t ready yet. And dozens of other little details remain for construction workers to complete in the final days before Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park opens to the public.
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