Bob Vasturo, founder of Westshore Pizza & Cheesesteaks, announced plans to begin regional franchising of the Tampa-based restaurants. ...more

March 25, 2009

Urging Floridians to help the state economy by shopping locally, Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday unveiled the Florida Backyard Card discount Web site. ...more

March 25, 2009

Urging Floridians to help the state economy by shopping locally, Gov. Charlie Crist today unveiled the Florida Backyard Card discount Web site. ...more

March 24, 2009

Guthrie's Chicken, which entered the Tampa Bay area market in the past two years with plans for rapid expansion, has fallen victim of the distressed economy. ...more

March 18, 2009

101 Percentage increase in business bankruptcies from 2007 to 2008 in Florida's Middle District ...more

March 15, 2009

Universal Orlando this week is opening Burger King's first Whopper Bar along with a Moe's Southwest Grill and Panda Express this week on Universal's CityWalk. ...more

March 9, 2009

Piece by piece, Ed Oelschlaeger's dream is being dismantled. Last year, Bank of America began foreclosure proceedings on the Tampa developer's New Port Tampa Bay "green" housing project, a 54-acre site near West Shore and Gandy boulevards where he planned to build 1,200 condos, a marina and shops. ...more

February 18, 2009

A developer is selling property at Gandy and West Shore boulevards where hoped to build a "green" housing development and has asked the city to reduce the size of his community development district, or CDD, so that the owners of a commercially zoned parcel where he planned to build several restaurants and shops can put their land on the market. ...more

February 17, 2009

You'll soon have a little less time to get in all your shopping at three local Westfield Group malls. ...more

February 13, 2009

You'll soon have a little less time to get in all your shopping at three local Westfield Group malls. Westfield Citrus Park, Westfield Brandon and Westfield Countryside in Clearwater will reduce their operating hours by one hour starting March 1. During the week, all three malls will begin opening at 10:30 a.m., rather than 10 a.m., and will begin closing at 8:30 p.m., rather than 9 p.m. ...more

February 11, 2009