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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› As Tampa Bay sales grow, sport bike maker Ducati plans giant dealership
There are pickup markets and there are sports car markets. Tampa Bay, Jason Chinnock said, has traditionally been a pickup market — a market that typically valued utilitarianism and convenience over the flash of a sportier brand. “We historically haven’t done a great job in Tampa for many, many years,” said the CEO of Italian motorcycle maker Ducati’s North American operations.
› New project with restaurants, medical offices to be built near Kissimmee
A mixed-use project that would include restaurants and medical office space is in the works in the East 192 area of Osceola County, between Kissimmee and St. Cloud. The project would rise on eight acres on the south side of U.S. 192/East Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, near its interchange with Florida's Turnpike, and would include two restaurant spaces of about 2,500 square feet each and 4,200 square feet of medical office space.
› Who is buried in St. Augustine graves marked 'Six Unknown Indians'?
Amy Larner Giroux has been drawn to the mysteries of cemeteries since she was 16 when she would go to graves with a box of matches to light her way, writing down the names of the dead and putting them in a coffee can. Later as a genealogist and academic researcher, she learned there's a lot of knowledge to be gained in cemeteries. But also many questions.
› Miami Beach hypes aesthetics, residents just want the parking
“Less about landscaping, and more about commercial revitalization and added parking” is what residents of Miami Beach echoed at a meeting for the 41st Street Corridor Revitalization, as the city presented a final concept design recommendation for the $15 million general obligation bond project.
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