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2023
Power 100: Meet Tampa Bay’s most influential leaders of 2023
February 9, 2023
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The Tampa Bay Business Journal has named the 2023 Power 100, a guide to the region’s most influential business leaders.
The list is presented alphabetically below. Profiles will be published online and in the weekly edition on March 24.
The Power 100 list is not a ranking but rather a guide that aims to reflect the most influential businesspeople in Tampa Bay at this moment. The editorial staff and publisher of the Business Journal created the list.
(Read Full Article)PASCO COUNTY Moffitt Cancer Center breaks ground on massive Pasco County campus
January 20, 2023
WFLA
It was a historic day in the battle against cancer in Florida, as Moffitt Cancer Center broke ground on its new Pasco County campus.
“This facility,” said Dr. Patrick Hwu. “Which we’ve named ‘Speros,’ meaning ‘help,’ is our largest expansion ever with Moffitt Cancer Center.”
(Read Full Article)New Moffitt Cancer Center campus to bring more than just a hospital in Pasco
January 20, 2023
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Linda Shotsberger’s fight started off in the new year when she saw something that didn’t look right.
“I had turned yellow that was my only sign. And then they started testing and they found out I had pancreatic cancer,” she said.
(Read Full Article)Moffitt Cancer Center breaks ground on new Pasco County campus, the largest expansion in history
January 20, 2023
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Moffitt Cancer Center's planned 775-acre campus has hit a new milestone.
President and CEO Patrick Hwu, former Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson and others broke ground on the "Speros FL" campus in Pasco County on Friday in front of over 150 people. As part of the occasion, Moffitt announced that Simpson would be honored for his efforts to fund the campus with two namesake projects: a road called Wilton Way and the first 75 acres of development called the W.E. Simpson Concourse for Cures.
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Gary Plastic Packaging moving from the Bronx to Florida
December 9, 2022
Plastics News
New York City-based injection and blow molder Gary Plastic PackagingCorp. plans to pull up stakes from the Bronx and head to Florida, where ithas been offered job, tax and training incentives worth almost $1 million.
(Read Full Article)PLASTICS COMPANY TO ADD MORE THAN 500 JOBS IN FLORIDA
December 8, 2022
WhatJobs? News
More than 500 employees will soon be recruited by a plastics company which is
expanding Pasco County’s manufacturing presence in the Tampa Bay area.
Gary Plastic Packaging Corp. will relocate to the brand-new North Pasco Corporate
Center in Spring Hill, according to an announcement made on Tuesday, December 6 by
the Pasco Economic Development Council.
Pasco commissioners approve deal to moveplastics manufacturer from New York
December 6, 2022
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Pasco County Commissioners have approved anincentive deal to entice a New York plasticsmanufacturer to relocate from the Bronx.
Commissioners on Tuesday approved multipleincentives totaling $958,206 for Gary Plastic PackagingCorp., which will
move its executive offi ces
and twoproduct line manufacturing facilities to Spring Hill.Gary Plastic plans to invest $16 million in “leaseholdimprovements,manufacturingequipment, furniture and other fi xtures in order tocreate a modern state-of-the-art manufacturingfacility,” according to county documents.
Pasco leaders provide $1M in incentives to lure NY plastic manufacturer
December 6, 2022
Business Observer
A New York packaging company is moving to Pasco County and creating about 555 jobs in the process.
Gary Plastic Packaging Corp. announced Tuesday, Dec. 2, that it is moving into 279,000 square feet of space in a new400,000-square-foot building currently under construction at the North Pasco Corporate Center. The building is oneof two being built on 72 acres in Spring Hill.
Pasco’s ‘Ready Sites’ program is attracting companies
December 6, 2022
Laker Lutz News
Pasco County continues to attract manufacturers seeking a place to set up shop, and is headinginto a new fiscal year that will show an increased focus on supporting workforce developmentefforts.
Those were some key take-aways in a report delivered by Bill Cronin, president and CEO of thePasco Economic Development Council (EDC), to the Pasco County Commission.
SMARTstart celebrates 10 years of helping budding entrepreneurs
December 6, 2022
The Suncoast News
A decade ago, the Pasco County Economic Development Council received some seed funding from the Florida High Tech Corridor that hassince, according to the EDC, helped more than 500 participants, at some level, turn their bright ideas into thriving businesses. Funded largely byPenny for Pasco since 2016, the SMARTstart Small Business Program has issued more than $2 million in microloans to 68 recipients and heldnearly 600 classes and events for people who want to start their own businesses.
The organization’s offerings can be broken down into five areas, Dan Mitchell, program director, told Suncoast News: workspace, guidance,education, financing, and collaboration.