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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Some Central Florida governments seek to make tiny houses into permanent homes
The tiny home under construction at Cornerstone’s Longwood factory has room for a queen bed, an apartment refrigerator, a closet and even a washer and dryer hook-up. But the biggest difference in the $68,000, 360-square-foot home model is the lack of wheels, meaning it isn’t technically a mobile home like other popular tiny homes. It’s meant to sit on a foundation for good.
› New Detwiler’s coming to Sarasota hopes deliver on all the hype
The Sarasota community was accustomed to shopping at the Winn-Dixie on Clark and Swift before it and three other area locations closed in March 2018 following a bankruptcy filing. Even the Detwiler family shopped there. Now, that same family is bringing one of their own stores to the location at 2881 Clark Road.
› Blair Witch Project director will turn Ybor City into a horror hotbed
The community that made Tampa Cigar City will be temporarily transformed into Horror City. Director Dan Myrick, whose The Blair Witch Project is one of the highest grossing independent movies of all time, will make a horror web series this summer tentatively titled Lost Ybor, based and shot in Ybor City.
› SpaceX will try again to launch 60 Internet satellites Thursday night from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX has set a date to try again for the launch of its constellation of Internet satellites, signaling the beginning of its entrance into the telecommunications industry. The next launch attempt is set for Thursday, SpaceX tweeted, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 40.
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