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Tampa, other central Florida cities among fastest growing in US

Metro Orlando grew by 60,000 residents last year, almost as large as the number of people who can fit into the city’s Camping World Stadium, where college football bowl teams face off each winter.

The Tampa area grew last year by 51,000 residents, more than the number of fans who can fit into Tropicana Field, where the city’s Tampa Bay Rays play baseball.

Growth from mid-2017 to mid-2018 propelled these two metropolises into the top tier of the nation’s fastest-growing metro areas, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Only Texas grew by more people than Florida last year, and the addition of tens of thousands of new residents to central Florida cities will increase the importance next election of the Interstate 4 corridor, already the swingiest part of the nation’s biggest swing state. That explosive growth also helps Florida’s chances of getting additional congressional seats — and presidential electors — after the 2020 census.

Orlando had the nation’s fifth largest increase for metro areas in pure numbers, surpassed by only Dallas, Phoenix, Houston and Atlanta. Tampa came in at No. 9.

In Tampa, the growth was completely driven by new arrivals. Without that inbound migration, Tampa would have lost population — deaths outnumbered births by almost 900 people. About two-thirds of the new arrivals came from U.S. states.

In Orlando, that migration dynamic was flipped, with about two-thirds of the new arrivals coming from outside the 50 U.S. states. After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans moved to the Orlando area, but Thursday’s Census release didn’t detail how many of Orlando’s new arrivals came from the island.

About a sixth of metro Orlando’s population growth last year came from the natural increase of more births than death, and the rest was fueled by migration.

The intense growth wasn’t limited to large cities and included smaller metros along Interstate 4, the east-west highway that slices through the center of Florida, the nation’s third most populous state with 21.3 million residents.

The Lakeland-Winter Haven area, midway between Tampa and Orlando on Interstate 4, had the nation’s fourth-largest growth rate at 3.2%, surpassed by only Midland, Texas; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and St. George, Utah.

The Villages, the retirement community northwest of Orlando, grew by 3.1%, placing it at No. 6 for growth rate.

While growth is an economic driver of construction and consumption in these cities, there are also consequences, such as Orlando’s and Tampa’s struggle to keep up with affordable housing, officials said.

Orlando ranked No. 1 and Tampa was No. 9 among large metro areas with the most severe shortages of rental homes affordable to extremely low-income households, according to a recent study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Given the traditionally low wages in tourism, Orlando’s most visible industry, affordable housing is a top priority for county officials who are trying to expedite the approval process to get more reasonably priced housing built, said Olan Hill, assistant manager in the planning division of Orange County, the largest county in metro Orlando’s four-county area.

“We have to create the carrot to entice developers to build more affordable housing options,” Hill said.

South Florida remained Florida’s largest metro area, and one of the biggest in the nation. The area that includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach had a population of 6.2 million people, making it the seventh-largest in the United States.

Although more than 58,000 residents left South Florida last year, their flight was offset by an influx of almost 93,000 residents from abroad and a natural growth of almost 15,000 people.

Since the last decennial census in 2010, South Florida and metro Orlando have both grown by the size of a medium city. South Florida added more than 632,000 people, and metro Orlando added 439,000 people, raising its population to 2.6 million.

The Florida Keys declined by 1,600 residents last year, with most of the drop from people moving away. Hurricane Irma, in September 2017, severely damaged 4,000 homes in the Keys, and most of them belonged to the archipelago’s affordable housing stock, said Helene Wetherington, Monroe County’s disaster recovery director.

“I absolutely suspect that many folks simply relocated if they couldn’t find alternative housing,” Wetherington said.

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Sunday Real Estate: Live Like a Yankee, Waterfront Homes

This week’s Sunday Real Estate takes you to Tampa, Miami and Sarasota. (Via Realtor.com)

MIAMI, FL — This week’s Sunday Real Estate takes you to the former home of Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner, to a $5.7 million gated home on Miami’s Venetian Islands and to a $5 million waterfront estate in Siesta Key.

You’ll find all of these homes and more great properties on Realtor.com.

TAMPA, FL — A South Tampa waterfront home once owned by Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner is back on the market, selling for $2,099,900. According to the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser’s… Read more

MIAMI, FL — This $5.7 million gated estate on Miami’s Venetian Islands features 70 feet of elegant waterfront living and breathtaking views of the downtown skyline. With a boat dock and lift,… Read more

SARASOTA, FL — This $5 million waterfront estate in Siesta Key marks a return to gracious living with an emphasis on originality, artistry and craftsmanship. The style is pure Palm Beach. Located… Read more

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Class action suit could change real-estate commissions

In what could be the most far-reaching antitrust lawsuit for the real estate market in decades, the National Association of Realtors and four of the largest realty companies have been accused of a conspiracy to systematically overcharge home sellers by forcing them to pay commissions to the agents who represent the buyers of their homes.

The class-action suit, filed in federal district court in Chicago, focuses on a rule it says has been imposed by the NAR. The rule requires brokers who list sellers’ properties on local multiple listing services (MLSs) to include a “non-negotiable offer” of compensation to buyer agents. That is, once a home seller agrees in a listing to a specific split of the commission, buyers cannot later negotiate their agents’ split to a lower rate. That requirement, the suit alleges, “saddle(s) home sellers with a cost that would be borne by the buyer in a competitive market,” where buyers pay directly for the services rendered by their agents.

In overseas markets where there is no such mandatory compensation rule for buyer agents, total commission costs tend to be lower — averaging 1 percent to 3 percent in the United Kingdom, for example — versus the 5 percent to 6 percent commonplace here. The suit alleges that if buyers in the U.S. could negotiate fees directly with the agents they choose to represent them, fees would be more competitive and lower. Today many American buyers are unaware of their agent’s commission split.

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Sellers typically know the percentage because they agree to it in the listing contract. But they may wonder: Why am I required to pay the fee of the buyer’s agent, who may be negotiating against my interests in the transaction? Also, at a time when buyers often search for and find the house they want to buy online, shouldn’t compensation for a buyer’s agents be decreasing, rather than stuck in the 2.5 percent to 3.0 percent range?

Besides NAR, the suit names RE/MAX Holdings Inc., Keller Williams Realty Inc., HomeServices of America Inc. and Realogy Holdings Corp. as co-defendants. NAR, with 1.3 million members, is the largest trade group in the industry. The four realty companies named as defendants are behemoths: franchisor Keller Williams has approximately 180,000 agents in the U.S. and Canada; RE/MAX has 120,000 agents; Realogy includes among its brands Better Homes and Gardens, Century 21, Coldwell Banker Real Estate and ERA; HomeServices of America is a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and includes among its companies regional powers such as Long and Foster Real Estate and Edina Realty.

The plaintiff in the case is Christopher Moehrl, who sold a home in 2017 using a RE/MAX broker to list the property; the buyer was represented by Keller Williams. Moehrl paid a total commission of 6 percent. Just under half of that, 2.7 percent, went to the buyer’s agent. If Moehrl’s case is certified as a class action, the potential number of sellers affected would be massive. It includes sellers who have paid a broker commission during the past four years in connection with a home listed by an MLS in these metropolitan areas: Washington D.C.; Baltimore; Cleveland; Dallas; Denver; Detroit; Houston; Las Vegas; Miami; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Salt Lake City; Richmond, Virginia; Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota and Ft. Myers, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Austin and San Antonio, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

NAR Vice President Mantill Williams called the suit “baseless” and said it “contains an abundance of false claims,” but he provided no specifics. Representatives of the four realty companies declined comment. But some Realtors say the suit could dismantle the compensation system as it now exists. Anthony Lamacchia, broker-owner of Lamacchia Realty in Waltham, Massachusetts, says if the suit is successful “it would basically destroy buyer agency, which would not be in the best interests of buyers or sellers.” Lamacchia argues that even in an era where buyers frequently find homes online, buyer agents have important functions in managing contract negotiations, providing strategic advice and guiding clients through the process to closing.

Some brokers challenged allegations in the suit, such as buyer agents refusing to show homes with low commission splits. Alexis Eldorrado, managing broker of Eldorrado Chicago Real Estate, told me that “in reality, if the buyers have found the place they want and are interested in seeing it, NAR’s code of ethics requires the agent to show it.”

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[Disclosure: Having sold a house in 2017, I am a potential class member if a class action is certified. To avoid any perceived conflict of interest, I will opt out of the class.]

Ken Harney’s email address is Harneycolumn@gmail.com.

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5 Open Houses In The New Tampa Area

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NEW TAMPA, FL — If you’re searching for a new place, odds are you’ve already combed through all the internet listings for your area. And while you may have learned roughly what these houses are like from the photographs, there’s just no comparison to witnessing the real thing.

Ready to start hunting? To help you out, we’ve made a list of the five latest homes on the open-house circuit in the New Tampa area. That way, you can get a feel for what kinds of properties are available without committing to a house blindly.

Below is an address, photo, price, home size and open-house time for each property on our list — such as one in the Tampa area with 5 beds and 6 baths for $990,900, and another in the Tampa area with 3 beds and 3 baths for $275,000.

Click on any address for additional photos and details. Enjoy!

1. 27035 Carolina Aster Dr, Wesley Chapel, Florida 33544

Price: $400,000 Size: 2,420 sq. ft., 4 beds, and 3 baths Open house: Saturday, March 23rd at 1:00 pm

Price: $389,000 Size: 3,012 sq. ft, 4 beds, and 3 baths Open house: Sunday, March 24th at 1:30 pm

Price: $990,900 Size: 4,919 sq. ft., 5 beds, and 6 baths Open house: Sunday, March 24th at 1:00 pm

Price: $275,000 Size: 2,395 sq. ft., 3 beds, and 3 baths Open house: Saturday, March 23rd at 10:00 am

Price: $305,000 Size: 2,458 sq. ft., 4 beds, and 3 baths Open house: Saturday, March 23rd at 11:00 am

Still want to see more options? Keep scrolling for more listings. Or check out our full list of nearby open houses in Patch’s real-estate section for the New Tampa area.

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Ex-campaign staffer accuses Trump of kissing her without consent before Tampa rally

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A former staffer for then-candidate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign has filed a lawsuit claiming he kissed her without her consent before a rally in Tampa, according to a report from the Washington Post.

The story published Monday by the Post says Alva Johnson claims Trump grabbed her hand as he was leaving a campaign RV and leaned in to kiss her on the lips. The alleged incident happened on Aug. 24, 2016 before a Tampa rally that Johnson helped organize, the Washington Post reports.

The lawsuit obtained by the Post says when Johnson realized Trump was trying to kiss her, she "attempted to avoid this by turning her head to the right. Defendant Trump kissed her anyway, and the kiss landed on the corner of her mouth."

"Defendant Trump’s kiss on Ms. Johnson’s mouth was intentional," the lawsuit says. "Indeed, Ms. Johnson was wearing a baseball cap with the bill facing forward. Given her baseball cap, Defendant Trump’s kiss on Ms. Johnson’s mouth was deliberate and required intention."

The lawsuit obtained by the Washington Post says several other people were in the RV at the time, including then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. According to the report, Johnson claims Bondi "smiled" at her after the incident. Bondi denied seeing the alleged kiss, the Post reports.

In her lawsuit, Johnson claims when she later returned to campaign headquarters in Sarasota, a staffer laughed and said he "heard that she got a kiss from the boss," the Washington Post says.

Johnson filed her lawsuit Monday in the Tampa division of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The Post reports that she is seeking "unspecified damages for emotional pain and suffering."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied the allegation and called it "absurd on its face," according to the Washington Post report.

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5 Open Houses Coming Up In The New Tampa Area

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NEW TAMPA, FL — Shopping for a house online can sometimes leave you wanting. Photographs may not do a house justice, and they can often make a run-down property appear more spacious and sparkling than it really is. That’s where open houses come in handy: No more guessing!

Ready to start hunting? To jump-start your search, we’ve put together a list of the five most recent homes to hit the open-house circuit in the New Tampa area. That way, you can get a feel for what kinds of properties are available before making the big decision.

Below is an address, photo, price, home size and open-house time for each property on our list — including one in the Tampa area with 6 beds and 5 baths for $624,999, and another in the Wesley Chapel area with 3 beds and 3 baths for $207,500.

Want more information on one of the properties in our list? Just click on any address to learn more. Happy house hunting!

Price: $475,000 Size: 3,642 sq. ft., 5 beds, and 5 baths Open house: Friday, February 22nd at 4:00 pm

Price: $389,000 Size: 3,230 sq. ft, 5 beds, and 3 baths Open house: Sunday, February 24th at 12:00 pm

Price: $350,000 Size: 3,498 sq. ft., 5 beds, and 4 baths Open house: Saturday, February 23rd at 11:00 am

Price: $207,500 Size: 1,689 sq. ft., 3 beds, and 3 baths Open house: Saturday, February 23rd at 12:00 pm

Price: $624,999 Size: 4,689 sq. ft., 6 beds, and 5 baths Open house: Saturday, February 23rd at 1:00 pm

Hungry for more options? Keep scrolling for more listings. Or you can always find a complete list of nearby open houses in Patch’s real-estate section for the New Tampa area.

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AAAPG Presents Tampa Guardianship Abuse Forum

AAAPG Presents the Florida Premiere of THE GUARDIANS and symposium on protecting senior rights and avoiding abuse. Free Event “Preventing Abuse and Protecting Rights” Open to Public.National experts to speak at Tampa Theatre on protecting Senior rights.Kidnapping, corruption, lies, theft, and deceit. While these things have all the makings of a Hollywood movie, it is reality for many elderly people caught up in a corrupt national court system with guardians who are forcibly removing them from their homes, isolating them from their families and emptying their bank accounts.THE GUARDIANS, a 2018 award-winning documentary that examines this systemic abuse of elderly people, makes its Florida debut at 7 pm on February 20th at a free #TampaGuardianshipEvent at the Tampa Theater. Producer Billie Mintz showcases true stories of Las Vegas seniors with guardians who are forcibly removing them from their homes, isolating them from families and emptying their bank accounts. A discussion led by Tampa legal experts will follow the showing, as the documentary provokes audience questions on how to stop and prevent such abuse and exploitation.“This is a film where the phrase ‘seeing is believing’ has never rung truer,” states Dr. Sam J. Sugar, organizer of the #TampaGuardianshipEvent. “People can’t imagine a system of justice in this country that strips its citizens of their Constitutional rights.”“Courts are allowing these abusive guardianships that destroy the lives of our most vulnerable adults,” says Sugar, a licensed physician, Certified Florida Probate Court Examiner and founder of Ft. Lauderdale-based Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship (AAAPG). “Their existing legal documents become void, giving others the right to spend their money and sell their assets, isolate them, and limit the time they can spend with their loved ones.”The free #TampaGuardianshipEvent will be held from 2:00 – 11:00 pm EST at the Tampa Theatre, 711 North Franklin Street, Tampa, FL 33602. It is open to the public and admission is free. During the afternoon session, guardianship and elder justice experts from around the nation will share critical information on how to prevent guardianships as well as actions necessary to protect individual’s rights and those of their loved ones. Additional topics include current legislative efforts, accounting procedures for families, disability rights as well as coping techniques for isolation, over-medication, and estate liquidation often seen in abusive guardianships.An estimated 3 million American adults have been placed into guardianships, including as many 65,000 Floridians who are deemed “wards of the state.” Due to the aging US population, from longer life spans and 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, the number of wards are increasing at a rate of 10% annually. Deemed the crime of the century, current figures show that it has become an over $1.5 trillion market; a heinous “cottage industry” of greed waging war against vulnerable adults and their families.“Abusive guardianships are on the rise,” warns Sugar. “Although they may constitute a minority of guardianships, for victims and their families trapped in this opaque and highly intrusive, complex legal system, the abuse and vilification they all suffer is unspeakable.”Besides Sugar, who authored Guardianships and the Elderly, The Perfect Crime (a 2018 Amazon #1 Best New Release), speakers include: Judge Michelle Morley, FL Fifth Circuit Court; Linda Fieldstone, FL Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator; Eileen Leslie, CPA, CFE; Thomas F. Coleman, civil rights attorney & Director at Spectrum Institute; Rick Black, Director at CEAR; and Tampa attorney J. Ronald Denman of Bleakley Bavol Denman and Grace. Attorneys at Law.Psychiatrist Gregory Marsella MD; Terry Williams, social scientist and author: Dale Yeager, President at SERAPH; Julie Lynne Belshe, advocate; Janet Phelan, investigative reporter: and Terri Kennedy, author and elder justice activist are also confirmed.For more information, go to www.aaapg.net.Media Contact: Dr. Sam Sugar – (855) 913-5337 x101; info@aaapg.net

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Tampa Bay has ‘room to run’ as one of nation’s top 10 markets for real estate investors this year

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn speaks with a Tampa Bay Times reporter in April 2018 in Tampa. (CHRIS URSO | Times)

TAMPA — In 2008, Bob Buckhorn, then a private citizen, despaired of Tampa’s lowly rank among the nation’s real estate markets. The city had been ravaged by the financial crash, young people were leaving and almost no one saw it as a good place to invest.

"I’m tired of losing our kids to Charlotte,” he complained at that year’s Urban Land Institute conference on real estate trends. "I’m tired of being a second-tier city.”

On Wednesday, Buckhorn’s tone was far different as he addressed the 2019 conference, this time as mayor.

"We’re not a second-tier city, but a city competing on the international stage,” he said, voice booming. "There is a swagger about this city that has never existed.”

Buckhorn wasn’t the only speaker to extol the virtues of Tampa and the entire Tampa Bay area. For the first time, the area has been named one of the nation’s top 10 markets for real estate investors, joining not just Charlotte but also Austin, Raleigh and Nashville.

Strong job growth, tax law changes and an increasingly youthful population are among the factors making the Tampa Bay area far more attractive to investors than it was a decade ago, 500 conference attendees were told. And while the U.S. economy shows signs of slowing, the bay area is an enviable position.

"By historical standards, we’re late in this expansion, but Tampa (Bay) started so far back I think it’s early in its expansion,” said Mitchell Roschelle, a partner in PwC and co-author of the 2019 Emerging Trends in Real Estate Report. "The tailwinds are far stronger than any headwinds that would come. You have a lot more room to run.”

Roschelle was especially laudatory of Tampa’s redevelopment, including of its long-neglected waterfont. (The conference was held at Armature Works, a one-time streetcar depot turned hip food hall on the Hillsborough River.)

"The story of Tampa is really quite remarkable but not surprising,” he said. "You had the vision to take the waterfront and do something with it. You have a live-work-play that’s the envy of other cities.”

In St. Petersburg, revitalization of the downtown waterfront and nearby areas is drawing developers like Red Apple Group, whose planned condo-and-hotel tower on Central Avenue will be the company’s first project outside New York. Robert Zorn, a Red Apple executive, said the company decided to look beyond its home turf because new limits on mortgage and property tax deductions could prompt more northerners to move to low-tax states like Florida.

"We believe that when people in my neck of the woods do their tax returns, that’s going to accelerate the trend of affluent people saying, ‘Maybe there’s a better way,’ ” said Zorn, who lives in New York. “We’re looking to capitalize on that trend.”

Some other nuggets from the conference:

• The four most-common amenities that employers provide to their workers are full-service cafeterias, showers, fitness centers and custom coffee. Zorn cautioned against getting too carried away with amenities: "I went in a place with a climbing wall and nobody used it.”

• The growth of e-commerce is creating a need for more warehouses. Office buildings also need more storage space. People don’t want things delivered to their homes while they’re gone, "so they’re having them sent to the office,” Roschelle said.

• Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITS, have helped revolutionize the real estate business by enabling individuals to buy shares in real estate portfolios that receive income from hotels, apartment complexes and other commercial properties. "REITS to me are the biggest game-changer,” Roschelle said. "You can invest as an individual investor (along) with the biggest institutional investors.”

Contact Susan Taylor Martin at smartin@tampabay.com or (727) 893-8642. Follow @susanskate.

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Tampa FL area beers and bottle shops

I’ve got family that will be visiting the Tampa area, specifically Safety Harbor. They’ve graciously agreed to bring back some beer for me. I was wondering where I could send them that would have a good selection of canned local beers and wouldn’t be to far from where they’re staying. Also, what are some great Florida beers I can have them look for? Thanks guys!

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Meet the candidates running for mayor of Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. — Coming off the heels of the heated 2018 midterms, Florida voters may be feeling a little “political fatigue” to start 2019. But now is no time to tune out because Tampa’s upcoming municipal election features a high profile mayoral race, among others.

Election day is scheduled for March 5, but if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will face each other in a run-off election on April 23, with the winner taking office May 1.

Related: All candidates for Tampa mayor face off at debate

The deadline for candidates to file is Friday, January 18. Here’s a quick introduction to the candidates currently running for Mayor of Tampa (listed in alphabetical order):

Jane Castor – Retired as Tampa Chief of Police in 2015 after 31 years in law enforcement. Castor told 10News her platform is focused on providing better transportation, building a stronger economy and stronger neighborhoods, and continuing to foster development.

Harry Cohen – The attorney and Tampa native has sat on Tampa’s city council for the last 8 years and serves on several boards and committees. Cohen says he wants better transportation and infrastructure; stormwater and flood management; affordable housing; inclusion of all neighborhoods and improved community relations.

Dick Greco, Jr. – Greco is a familiar name in Tampa politics. Greco’s father, Dick Greco, served on Tampa’s city council and served two terms as the city’s mayor (1967-’74 & 1995-2003). Greco Jr. currently serves as a judge on the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in Hillsborough County.

Michael Anthony Hazard – Graduated from Tampa’s Jefferson High School in 1987. In 2018, Hazard was declared ineligible to run for mayor by Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer because he reportedly voted illegally as a convicted felon in Florida. However, after Amendment 4 went into effect earlier this month, Hazard registered to vote legally and is currently a registered voter in Hillsborough County.

LaVaughn R. King – A former track & field athlete at the University of Florida, King lists his main causes as: wellness (obesity alleviation), education (personal & professional development), arts (creative development), restorative justice, and housing on his official candidate Facebook page.

Christopher “Topher” Morrison – Morrison has spent the last 20 years working as an entrepreneur, founding and managing a Tampa-based business accelerator and personal branding program. While he has no previous political experience, he has championed the idea of finding an identity for the city of Tampa proposing that it become “the rooftop city."

David A. Straz, Jr. – Most people in Tampa will recognize the Straz name from the philanthropist’s Straz Center for the Performing Arts. Originally a Wisconsin native, Straz moved to Tampa in 1980 and has built a campaign based on LGBTQ equality, equal pay for women, gun safety, protecting the environment, develop affordable housing, increase the minimum wage to $15 and job creation.

Mike Suarez – Suarez, a third-generation Tampa native and USF graduate, has sat on Tampa’s city council since 2011. An insurance professional by trade, Suarez has focused on strengthening the city’s neighborhoods.

Ed Turanchik – Turanchik has been involved in local politics for almost three decades. Originally elected to the Hillsborough County Commission in 1990, he has been an outspoken advocate of environmental protection. He lists his priorities as creating congestion-proof transit, new housing initiatives, business innovation, fiscal prudence and promoting diversity and inclusion.

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You Paid For It: Contractor with curious ties finishing Tampa Housing Authority ‘Crown Jewel’

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Last summer, the Tampa Housing Authority (THA) abruptly fired the South Florida-based construction contractor that was building the $26 million dollar Tempo hi-rise.

That’s the latest "Crown Jewel" in the sprawling $420 million Encore Development the THA is building on the northeastern edge of downtown Tampa.

The THA alleged the seven-story ,200 apartment Tempo project had fallen prey to shoddy workmanship, poor management and breach of contract.

The project was already 70 percent complete but the THA wanted no part of the Plantation, Florida-based company known as the Siltek Group, especially after the company’s founder and husband of the current owner pleaded guilty in a multi-million dollar kickback scheme that targeted public housing in South Florida.

After Siltek stopped construction, THA workers spent months removing rain-soaked drywall and other interior elements damaged by water because Siltek had failed to seal the outer shell from the elements before beginning finishing work inside.

Now, a new company with curious ties to Siltek is finishing the job.

Tron Construction is owned by Ana Silveira-Sierra, the same woman who owned Siltek. Sierra’s husband Rene Sierra founded Siltek with her, but is not involved in the current work at Tempo. That’s because he’s under house arrest after pleading guilty in that South Florida fraud case.

Rene Sierra testified against his co-conspirators in a kickback scheme to inflate the cost of South Florida public housing for their own self-enrichment.

If you think all of that seems a bit dicey for the general contractor of a $26 million public housing project in Tampa that you paid for, you’re not alone. The Tampa Housing Authority’s attorney tried but failed to quash the new contracting deal back in October.

In a letter sent to the surety company October 3, THA attorney Felix Rodriguez wrote: "The Owner (THA) has no confidence in Siltek’s or TRON’s ability to complete the job. Again this is due, in part, to Siltek’s numerous breaches of the Construction Contract along with the numerous construction defects and deficiencies that the Owner has discovered after Siltek was terminated."

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There’s a confidence builder.

Regardless of the THA’s misgivings, Rodriguez insists there was little choice when the surety company picked Sierra’s new company to take over the project from Sierra’s fired former company, Siltek.

The deal was made even stranger by Siltek’s $5.6 million lien filed against the Tempo project and its attempt to foreclose on the same. Rodriguez claimed in his October letter that the contractor was basically trying to "get paid twice for the same work."

8 On Your Side has been asking the THA for weeks about ties between Tempo’s former contractor and the current one contractor.

Numerous emails and public records requests sent to the THA since early December have been met with stony silence.

Who can blame them, this has to be highly embarrassing. A scan of THA board minutes from May to November makes absolutely no mention of the matter.

Not exactly a shining moment for the Tampa Housing Authority’s "Crown Jewel."

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Part of Tampa Park Apartments for sale

Nearly 11 acres of the 23-acre Tampa Park Apartments is for sale. Home to many low-income renters, the complex is along Nick Nuccio Parkway in between Ybor City and the northern end of downtown Tampa. JAMES BORCHUCK | Times (2017)

TAMPA — A 10.7-acre piece of the Tampa Park Apartments, for years the focus of speculation as a potential site for a baseball stadium and, more recently, as a possible spot for a Brightline train station, is up for sale.

A sales brochure circulating from real estate broker Barbara Whittaker and attorney Tenisha Patterson Brown does not mention an asking price. The property is owned by a nonprofit group led by Florida Sentinel Bulletin newspaper publisher S. Kay Andrews. Other officers of the nonprofit corporation include James Harrell, former president of the Local No. 1402 of the International Longshoremen’s Union.

"We have no comment," Andrews said via text message Friday.

The parcel for sale is part of 23 acres that is home to 372 apartments that have been occupied by as many as 1,200 residents over the years. A little more than a third of those renters have been senior citizens. Many are poor. Many are black.

But the future of the property was put in doubt this summer. After the complex failed its fourth inspection in as many years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent letters to about 170 families saying they would be moved and into Section 8 housing starting in August. Federal officials also told the owners that the government would no longer subsidize rents for more than half the complex’s apartments.

Some tenants who told the Tampa Bay Times in July that they had received relocation notices were living in the area that is now for sale.

The sales brochure pitches the property’s proximity to the central business district, Ybor City, the Channel District, land that Port Tampa Bay plans to develop, Water Street Tampa and the proposed Ybor City location for a Tampa Bay Rays baseball stadium. But the ballpark site, several blocks east of the apartments, was taken off the table this week by the Rays, who say it is no longer viable because of unresolved questions about stadium financing.

The complex lies between the northern end of downtown Tampa and Ybor City. It is across Nick Nuccio Parkway from the 7.6-acre GasWorx property owned by investor Darryl Shaw. The Tampa Park Apartment land and buildings that are up for sale have an estimated market value of about $6.26 million, according to the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser’s Office.

“It’s a great parcel,” Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said. Asked about its potential, he said, “I think mixed use: residential, commercial, maybe activate Nuccio with retail. That parcel in its entirety or half of it represents a huge opportunity for somebody to develop.”

Buckhorn said the city owns a triangular piece of property where Nuccio Parkway and Nebraska Avenue come together, a point just south of the parcel for sale.

“We would be willing to talk to them about putting our portion in the deal,” he said.

The complex is among those scouted as a possible train station site for Brightline, soon to be known as Virgin Trains USA, thanks to an investment from Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.

The Miami-based company has proposed launching inter-city rail service from Orlando to Tampa, and recently received state approval to work on lease agreements for the needed right of way along Interstate 4 and other roads. The company typically builds its stations alongside mixed-use development. In South Florida, for example, its MiamiCentral station was built as part of a 1.6 million square foot project with two office towers, two apartment towers and more.

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So far, however, the company has said little more than that it is looking at putting a terminal in or near downtown Tampa.

“We see Tampa as a growing and vibrant area, and we are excited to be a part of its future,” Brightline spokeswoman Ali Soule said in an email to the Times on Friday. “We have evaluated a number of sites in Tampa.”

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Looking for Apartments in Westchase

It is easy to make mistakes when buying or renting apartments in Westchase. The only way you can avoid making these mistakes is to learn them. Once you know the mistakes that most people make when they are renting or buying apartments, you can learn how to avoid them.

The following are the mistakes to avoid when you are looking for the best apartments in Westchase.

1. Choosing a Wrong Real Estate Agent

If you are a new real estate investor, look for a reputable real estate agent to help you find the right apartment.

However, most new real estate investors select wrong real estate agents. They select a real estate agent without doing enough research.

The end up regretting why they selected the agent. They regret because the agent will not help them find a good property. The agent may convince these investors to invest in apartments that will never make them money in the long run.

Select the right real estate agent if you do not want to lose your hard earned money.

2. Investing in Expensive Apartments

Most new real estate investors buy expensive apartments without doing enough research. They think that they will make a lot of money if they invest in these apartments.

Expensive apartments are really great, but they are hard to sell. You will spend a lot of money promoting these apartments. And it takes a lot of time to find the right buyer. You may never make a lot of money after selling these apartments.

Look for affordable apartments. They are easy to sell. So, you will recover your money quickly.

3. Buying Wrong Apartments

Another most common mistake that most people make when they are buying apartments in Westchase is they buy wrong apartments. They do not inspect the apartment they want to buy. So, they end up buying apartments that cost a lot of money to renovate.

It is easy to avoid this mistake. Hire a reputable property inspector to inspect every apartment you want to buy in Westchase.

If you find that the apartment needs renovation, ask the seller to do these renovations. And if you want to do the renovation yourself, ask the seller to cut the cost of the renovation from the asking price.

4. Selecting Cheap Apartments

There are apartments that are very cheap because they are old, they are located in isolated locations, and they need repairs. And most of them do not have tenants.

People avoid these apartments because they are old.

However, new investors buy these apartments thinking that they will make easy money by selling them.

Avoid these apartments. Why? You will lose your money in the long run. People are avoiding these apartments. So, it is hard to sell them.

5. They Do Not Visit Several Apartments

Last, but not least, most people do not visit the apartments they want to buy. They buy the first apartment they come across. They end up regretting why they bought the apartment.

Want to avoid this mistake? Visit as many apartments as you can.

These are the mistakes to avoid when looking for the best apartments in Westchase.

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Sunday Real Estate: Become DJ Khaled’s Neighbor

MIAMI BEACH, FL — This week’s Sunday Real Estate takes you to a Miami Beach neighborhood where stargazing is just one of the amenities. We also visit a home with great sunset views in Apollo Beach, one of the most beautiful homes in Sarasota and a three-story home in Lakeland with great outdoor entertaining space.

We found all of these homes and other great properties on Realtor.com.

MIAMI BEACH, FL — If stargazing is on your home buying wish list, you need look no further than Pine Tree Drive in Miami Beach. You might find yourself borrowing a cup of sugar from DJ Khaled or… Read more

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SARASOTA, FL — Modeled after the Pitot House in New Orleans, this home on Norsota Way was selected as one of the 10 most beautiful homes in Sarasota. With its British West Indies curb appeal, the… Read more

LAKELAND, FL — Just off Lake Hollingsworth, this three-story home features imported marble, granite, solid cherry, Spanish cedar and birch. The pool and lanai areas include an outdoor grill cooking… Read more

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Property Details for 20254 Ravens End Dr

20254 Ravens End Dr, Tampa, FL 33647

Beautifully maintained MI Model home in desirable Easton Park neighborhood. Enter into an amazing foyer with a sight line straight through to the lanai and park view! 4 bedrooms plus office. 4th Bedroom has private en suite bath for privacy and entrance to back lanai and yard. 3 full baths. Open floor plan featuring Kitchen Family room with dinette seating. Separate Formal Dining and Living Room. Master Suite features Cove ceiling and bright natural window lighting with inset seating area. Master bath is en suite and luxurious featuring garden soaking tub and over sized shower. Kitchen has open floor plan featuring tile back splash. Island with solid wood cabinets, double oven, stainless appliances, pantry and plenty of storage and overlooks the dinette seating area with huge windows and the Family room, great for entertaining. Enjoy the covered Lanai anytime of the day or night as you gaze upon the expansive private back yard overlooking the park. Extra closets are featured throughout. Community features include Pool, Park and sidewalks for easy access throughout the peaceful almost rural feeling community but so close to shops and dining. Welcome home!

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Tampa’s transformation: Multibillion-dollar downtown development boom starts on the waterfront

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn remembers how underutilized, under-appreciated, and unattractive the city’s waterfront was when he first arrived in 1987.

The blocks of offices and surface parking lots located downtown, near the confluence of the Hillsborough River and the bay, provided few reasons to come downtown beyond work.

“The city had turned its back on the water,” Buckthorn says. “At the time, the waterfront was filled with broken-down wharfs and was more industrial than pedestrian. There was no Riverwalk, and Harbour Island, a neighborhood now home to 10,000 people, was a phosphate dumping pit filled with weeds and rats.”

Today, Tampa’s waterfront is a magnet for investment: The city’s downtown has become the locus of a wave of construction projects that will bring an estimated $13 billion on investment to the Tampa region through 2022, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

Its centerpiece, the new Water Street District, is a $3 billion, 16-block mega-development, which recently broke ground on a new JW Marriott hotel and the $164.7 million University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute, a new facility that backers hope with become the centerpiece of an emerging medical tech cluster.

A project of Strategic Property Partners (which is a joint venture of Cascade Investment, owned by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, and Jeffrey N. Vinik, the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey franchise), the Water Street District is the largest and most high-profile of a series of developments reshaping the city.

“This is bigger than just a bunch of buildings going up during a boom time,” says architect Robert M. MacLeod, professor at the University of South Florida School of Architecture & Community Design. “It’s a chance for Tampa to reinvent itself—and even rebrand itself—as a downtown that’s very walkable and pedestrian friendly.”

A thousand little things reshaping the city

The changes sweeping Tampa’s waterfront and urban core may seem relatively sudden. But today’s transformative developments were the result of decades of slow, methodical effort, what Buckhorn calls “a moment 20 years in the making.”

The 53-acre Water Street site, a former industrial zone situated in the Garrison Channel and Hillsborough Bay, had traditionally been plagued by many of the same planning and connectivity issues that held back other urban districts in the U.S.

Cut off by a large highway, the neighborhood was a jumble of surface parking, nondescript offices, and disconnected big-ticket projects, including a convention center, an aquarium and the Tampa Bay Lightning’s arena. It exemplified the ways Tampa had traditionally lagged behind when it come to urban development, and lacked a true sense of place downtown. Salon once called the city a “hot urban mess.”

When billionaire Jeffrey Vinik realized he could acquire 53 acres of land near his team’s arena and have a hand not only in developing a collection of properties, but also methodically creating a new neighborhood, he seized the opportunity. According to James Nozar, CEO of Strategic Property Partners, the construction team has spent the last two year redesigning and rebuilding the street grid, instituting road diets to create walkable and bikeable streets and sidewalks and landscaping waterfront paths along with nearly 13 acres of new parks.

It’s all part of an ambitious plan to make Water Street the first WELL-Certified district in the world, meaning it will meet a new, evolving standard that prioritizes design for health and well-being, and elements like daylighting, outdoor access, and air quality. A new development-wide cooling system will save energy and allow rooftops to trade AC units for green roofs and gardens.

According to Nozar, the grid redesign and green focus shows just how Vinik and others are building Water Street with a long-term vision. Eventually, when the development is complete in 2027, Water Street will contain one million square feet of cultural and retail space, 3,500 residential units, hotels, and innovation hubs.

But that’s far from the only project recently opened or under construction near downtown. According to a recent New York Times article, New York-based Bromley Company will develop a 1.8-million-square-foot mixed-use project called Midtown Tampa. BTI Partners, out of Fort Lauderdale, is building the $400 million Westshore Marina District, transforming a 52-acre formerly industrial parcel on the waterfront.

Coming on the heels of new creative reuse projects such as Tampa Armature Works, a former trolley car garage-turned-upscale food hall in the Tampa Heights neighborhood, and Ulele, a riverfront restaurant, as well as public space investments like the Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, these development underscore how Tampa’s urban core is creating the amenities to accommodate thousands of new residents.

Nozar has compared all the activity in the once-overlooked urban core as filing in a hole in a doughnut. But it can also be seen as a zipper: The new downtown core, as well as the development heading north along the Hillsborough River, will ideally pull together the neighborhoods on the east and west of the waterway.

“Leadership needed to get behind the idea that you could transform this unproductive part of the city into a vibrant neighborhood,” says Diane Eigner, publisher and editor of 83 Degrees, a local news site. “It’s more about 1,000 little things than one big thing. Vinick and Water Street is important, but it’s the little things that all add up into a huge investment into our downtown.”

By the time the first round of buildings at Water Street open in early 2021, coinciding with Tampa welcoming Super Bowl 55, Nozar, Vinik, and others believe Water Street will have completely redefined downtown.

Riverwalk and redevelopment

Each of these new projects capitalizes on the renewed focus on the city’s waterfront. Like many reviving downtowns focused on walkable urbanism and economic development, Tampa directed investment and energy into its riverfront, hoping to create a focal point for the city. Buckhorn, the latest in a line of mayors who have worked for decades to stitch together downtown Tampa, says the riverwalk had a “generational impact” on Tampa.

“If we were going to attract business capital, and the young people fleeing Tampa for other cities, we had to create a downtown that was exciting and focused on the waterfront,” Buckhorn says. “I spent the last seven years trying to build that, and the critical piece was the 2.4-mile Riverwalk. It was six mayors and 40 years in the making.”

The resurgent waterfront and downtown have come into their own just as Tampa was, in Buckhorn’s words, “changing its economic DNA.” Once more focused on the service economy and real estate, the Tampa region has rapidly developed a new urban economy, says Eigner, and becoming increasingly attractive to young professionals and tech workers and creating a pent-up demand for housing downtown. According to the Tampa Downtown Partnership, downtown’s population had doubled to 8,100 people between 2008 and 2016.

Tampa has been a leading city for job growth in Florida over the last few years, and in the last few years, companies such as Amgen, Johnson and Johnson, and Bristol Meyers Squibb have relocated down here. Buckthorn sees the resurgent downtown attracting more such employers, and views the under-construction medical center as the locus of a growing medical tech hub that can become a “mecca for intellectual capital.”

“This medical tech cluster will drive the economy for decades to come,” he says. “That’s a lot bigger than getting a baseball team in Tampa.”

Growing pains and transit challenges

While the growth that has fueled Tampa’s current downtown development has helped reshape the landscape, it’s also in danger of exacerbating existing issues. The city needs to focus more on affordable housing, especially in the face of rising real estate prices, says Eigner.

Transportation presents another big challenge for a downtown expected to add thousands of new residents and become an even bigger job center. The city’s public bus system isn’t nearly robust enough or well-funded enough to accommodate the expected population growth.

“We do not have the mobility options we need if we’re going to continue to grow at this pace,” says Buckhorn. “Florida is a very car-centric state, and we need to look at a more robust bus system, as well as rail and bus rapid transit.”

Tampa’s current wave of redevelopment offers potential for both redevelopment and reinvention. MacLeod sees promise and peril in how these forthcoming towers reshape not just the city’s plain skyline, but its public realm. Can these large developments be more than just signature architecture, and help shape the street? Can they bolster the emerging sense that downtown Tampa can have its own sense of place?

“I tell my current students that they’re lucky,” says MacLeod. “They will watch a city being designed and built before their eyes.’”

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STEM and R&D employment growing in Tampa Bay area, big on Florida’s Space Coast

Suffolk Construction IT engineer Andy Kunkle uses a remote control and 3D glasses to view project plans at the company’s Computer Aided Virtual Environment room in Tampa on March 14. The number of jobs in the Tampa Bay area in

With affordable housing and the highest percentage of workers employed in "advanced industries" of any Florida metro, the Space Coast has a shot — and not necessarily something as difficult as a moon shot — to become the next Silicon Valley, USA Today’s Florida Voices project reported last week.

In 2015, nearly 14 percent of the local work force in Brevard County — 28,550 employees — was in advanced industries, defined by the Brookings Institution researchers as those where research and development spending per worker ranks among the top 20 percent of industries and the share of workers with a high level of STEM knowledge exceeds the national average.

That covers 50 different industries — 35 in manufacturing, 12 in services, three in energy — ranging from aerospace to auto to medical device manufacture, and including pharmaceuticals, electric power generation, computer system design, software and telecommunications.

That placed the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville area sixth nationally for the percentage of its work force in areas such as R&D and STEM, according to a 2016 Brookings study.

By comparison, the Tampa Bay area had 102,974 advanced industries workers in 2015, or about 8.1 percent of its total work force. That was good enough for only the No. 56 spot on the list of metros that Brookings examined.

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By other measures, there’s a more encouraging picture for the bay area.

For one thing, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater has a bigger economy, with more than $15.8 billion in total output in 2015 from advanced industries, compared with $4 billion in same-sector output on the Space Coast.

And the number of bay area jobs in tech and science industries is not only growing, but the growth is picking up speed. A 3 percent increase from 2010 to 2013 turned into a 3.7 percent increase from 2013 to 2015.

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Here’s the breakdown for jobs in the five largest advanced industries detailed in the Brookings study:

• Management, scientific and technical consulting services: 18,963 jobs, for an 18.4 percent share of the total and 6.4 percent growth from 2013 to 2015.

• Computer systems design and related services: 17,166 workers for a 16.7 percent share and two-year growth of 4.1 percent.

• Architectural, engineering and related services: 13,669 workers; a 13.3 percent share; two-year growth of 4.1 percent.

• Medical and diagnostic laboratories: 4,949 workers; 4.8 percent share; two-year growth of 9.2 percent.

• Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing: 4,918 workers; 4.8 percent share; two-year growth of 3.1 percent.

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