A new hurricane cone will look different this season. What to know.
It’s once again that dreaded time of year when TV screens light up with colorful graphics of cones and swirly storms. It has been a minute since we last had to put on our thinking caps and untangle those graphics. While the National Hurricane Center’s forecast cone has remained mostly unchanged over the years, there are some tweaks to keep in mind this year. More from Tampa Bay Times.
JEA eyes former St. Johns River Power Park site for natural gas-fired electric plant
What goes around might come around for JEA on a 1,200 acre tract of land on the Northside. JEA is eyeing the former St. Johns River Power Park site as a possible location for a new natural gas plant that could cost $800 million to $1 billion and bring electric generation back to the same place where the utility demolished a coal-fired power plant a few years ago. More from the Florida Times-Union.
Who is buying up St. Petersburg’s Salt Creek boatyards, and why?
Since a billion-dollar plan to turn an industrial marine service hub in St. Petersburg into a village of condos, affordable housing and office, hotel and conference space fell through a few years ago, the property owners, workers and residents around Salt Creek knew it wouldn’t be long before another outfit eyed the area for redevelopment. Rumors are swirling since two neighboring boatyards on the south side of the creek were recently bought up by two little-known companies for a combined $14.8 million. More from the Tampa Bay Times.
Miami-Dade County could spend over $180 million for new government center
County administrators have slashed $23 million from its purchase price for a 625,000-square-foot office building that may serve as a new government facility for western Miami-Dade County. A resolution to allocate $183 million toward the acquisition of the six-story, 50-year-old building at 9250 W. Flagler Street is on the Miami-Dade County Commission's preliminary agenda for June 4. More from the South Florida Business Journal.
Orlando’s planned Holocaust Museum scales back as leader departs
Orlando’s planned Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity will be scaled back as its leaders pause spending for three months as they consider a reduced scope and budget for the project through a new feasibility study. The revamp of the planned museum — with a budget that had grown to $106 million — comes as Talli Dippold departs as CEO of the organization that’s building it. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
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Florida Dining
Come for the margaritas, stay for the views at this new Tampa rooftop spot
When Casa Cami first opened, on the 10th floor of the Current Hotel in Rocky Point, it touted some pretty serious selling points. For one, the restaurant marked the latest project from restaurateur siblings Blake Casper and Allison Casper Adams, otherwise known as the team behind Tampa’s popular Oxford Exchange and Predalina and St. Petersburg’s The Library. But more than anything, it was clear that the restaurant’s rooftop location, boasting sweeping vistas of Tampa Bay, would close the deal.
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