Table of Contents
July 1999
- Inside Corner
Sarasota County is having to rethink its idea of creating a centralized county-wide water and sewer system because a Texas company, AquaSource Inc., is buying up county water utilities. The two retail/entertainment projects The Sembler Company is developing on either side of the bay are remarkably similar, right down to the restaurants and the number of cinema screens. In Tampa, one design agency, the Walker Design Group, has made a specialty of packaging, or "visual communication," on the theory that well-researched packaging is necessary to get the message to the right audience.
- Leads & Deals
Robert C. Fagan is the new president and CEO of TECO Energy Inc. of Tampa. In Polk County, former state legislator Richard E. "Rick" Dantzler, has rejoined the law firm of Frost and Saunders of Bartow. David Swenson has been named business development manager for the Pinellas County Economic Development Agency. And in Sarasota County, Unisource Administrators Inc. has named Richard W. Baranowski vice president of business development.
- Growth Strategies
Steve Jensen thought he had a future in toner, the granulated stuff that looks like letters and graphics when it emerges from the printer or copier stuck to a piece of paper. He did, and Optima Technologies Corp. of New Port Richey is printing in green these days.
- Buyer's Guide
This month: Source for employee and staff leasing
- Corporate Meetings, Travel & Getaways
The Tampa Convention Center looks to a brighter future now that downtown Tampa developments like the Channelside retail and entertainment project, renewal at Harbour Island, and especially the Marriott Waterside Hotel, are on the horizon.
- Education & Training
The CareerWorks 2000 training program at the not-for-profit Florida Center for Manufacturing Excellence Inc. in Palmetto, in Manatee County, may be a model for other areas that need a more highly trained manufacturing maintenance workforce.
- The Glowing Face of High-Tech Ed
The brave new world of advanced business education consists of software, the Internet and a reliable computer and a series of fairly modest fees. Across the country, people are earning MBAs and other degrees or qualifications through "distance education." It turns out that Pasco County's Saint Leo College and Tampa's Bisk-Totaltape are leading the way.
by Bridget McCrea
- Greater Clearwater
Economic growth seems to be pouring through Clearwater's economic window of opportunity.
by Melissa Wells
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