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› $200M apartment and hotel project planned for this growing Tampa neighborhood
A $200 million development slated for downtown Tampa will add apartments, hotel rooms, stores and restaurants to a burgeoning section of the city. Miami-based developer LD&D unveiled plans this week to build a 28-story, 365-unit luxury apartment building in Tampa’s Encore redevelopment district. Located at 1101 East Harrison St. the project will also include a 178-key hotel, 32,500 square feet of ground floor retail and a 586-space parking podium.
› Kennedy Space Center launch pad tower records 100 mph gust during Hurricane Nicole
NASA left its $4.1 billion Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission to the moon on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center to ride out Hurricane Nicole, noting that it could withstand sustained winds of 85 mph at 60 feet high when vertical at Launch Complex 39-B. Hurricane Nicole ended up testing those safety limits. The weather sensors on a tower at LC 39-B record wind data among other things at various heights every five minutes, posted to kscweather.ksc.nasa.gov.
› Orlando builders face slow home sales, cancellations amid 2022 housing market shifts
Jerome Henin is close to declaring the rest of the year a vacation for his real estate company. That’s because business has slowed so much in the last six months for Winter Park-based Henin Group Inc., a residential developer where Henin is the president. Henin Group this year has witnessed slowing demand while development costs have climbed upwards of 25%, Henin said.
› Climate-tech discussion to feature PODS executive
Tampa Bay Innovation Center, a St. Petersburg-based business accelerator, has scheduled the latest edition of its Tech Talk Innovation Series for 6-8 p.m. Nov. 16 at the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce office in downtown St. Pete. According to TBIC Managing Director Ken Evans, the event will focus on the emerging field of climate tech. The “fireside chat” format will feature Opal Perry, chief strategy and digital transformation office at PODS, a Clearwater-based moving and storage company that operates nationwide.
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