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Leadership | High-end steakhouse chain president dishes on career strategy. PG.3 PASCO • H ILL SBOROUG H • PIN ELL AS • P OLK • M A N ATEE • SA R ASOTA • C H A R LOT TE • LEE • COLLIER
Field of Play The Tampa Bay Rays’ $1.3 billion stadium project — a nonconventional, zigzagging, years-in-the-making deal — has finally been approved. PAGE 12
The Tampa Bay Rays are getting a new ballpark after Pinellas County approved tourism money for the effort.
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A large military contracting nonprofit is using a new facility in St. Petersburg to help companies with hightech packaging needs, especially for microchips. PAGE 7
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A pair of restaurant industry business partners has turned the simple spud into the centerpiece menu item of a fast-growing Lee County-area food truck. PAGE 8
Metal-shaping entrepreneur Scott Gerber, who has moved his business, Tube Dude, several times in 14 years, now has his biggest space to date, in Bradenton. PAGE 10
611-acre Pasco industrial site listed for sale. 14 CBRE hired to lease, manage largest office park in Tampa Bay. 14
Noted resort looks for reset after $25M loss.
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A new nationwide report on where people are looking for office space reveals demand in Florida remains high, with supply lagging behind in many cases. PAGE 6
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