SMARTstartIn the News
2023
Pasco EDC opens new entrepreneur space in Holiday
September 19, 2023
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Pasco Economic Development Council has opened a new entrepreneur space in Holiday called the SMARTstart incubator.
The space will be co-located in the AmSkills Innovation Center, a manufacturing-focused development and training initiative. The incubator focuses on supporting entrepreneurs in the area through education, workspace, collaboration, funding and guidance, according to a release.
(Read Full Article)Pasco EDC opens new innovation center
September 18, 2023
Business Observer
Pasco County's Economic Development Council and its SMARTstart Program, which supports entrepreneurs and start-ups, opened a new center in Holiday, the EDC says in a Monday news release.
(Read Full Article)Maggie’s Snow Shoppe: Pasco County woman turns a childhood memory into a business
September 15, 2023
News Channel 8
Customers often mistake Liz Guerra for “Maggie.” Maggie’s Snow Shoppe is what she calls her new shaved ice business.
Maggie is Liz’s grandmother. However, she was more like a mother to Liz.
(Read Full Article)New SMARTstart branch in Holiday offers ‘synergy’ with AmSkills
September 12, 2023
The Suncoast News
SMARTstart, a program for small businesses and the people who want to start them operated by the Pasco Economic Development Council, has opened a new office in Holiday, inside the new AmSkills Innovation Center on Darlington Road.
(Read Full Article)The Point Distillery is expanding
September 5, 2023
Laker Lutz News
The Point Distillery is expanding and will be creating 20 to 25 new jobs, according to background materials in the Pasco County Commission’s Aug. 22 agenda packet.
The distillery, in New Port Richey, will be adding a new bottling line, which will expand the company’s ability to obtain contracts, nationally and internationally, according to a news release from the Pasco Economic Development Council (EDC).
(Read Full Article)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.
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