Posts Tagged ‘Downtown Tampa’
Water Street District Welcomes Unhoused
Is there a cozier area to live if you don’t have anywhere to live?
Read MoreWhere Drake Wasn’t Last Night
Did you see him?
Read MoreTampa man who works on top floor thinks he’s better than other people
He’s upwardly mobile
Read MoreDowntown Tampa Tent Cities to Be Converted into Cardboard Box Highrises
Would you live here?
Read MoreEnergy harvested from un-reset microwave powers office building
Truist Place, formerly SunTrust Financial Centre, a skyscraper office building in downtown Tampa, has been completely rewired to draw power from a previously untapped source of alternate energy: the unused time from microwave ovens in company breakrooms. “What happens is somebody will set the microwave for three minutes to heat up some soup or a…
Read MoreBeer Can Building no longer branded as Sykes
The Beer Can Building, the iconic 454-foot-tall cylindrical skyscraper in downtown Tampa is no longer branded with Sykes Enterprises, which means people who were calling it the Sykes Building can go back to calling it the Beer Can Building. Sykes Enterprises was sold to a global customer service company based in Miami, the Sitel Group,…
Read More717 Parking Enterprises creates ‘717 Parking Enterprises II’
Jason Accardi, President and CEO of Seven One Seven Parking Enterprises, announced yesterday that a new company has been formed: 717 Parking Enterprises II. “People are liable to hear this and think this is some sort of lawsuit or tax dodge, to escape some sort of legal punishment for conducting shady business, ala President Trump,”…
Read MoreNew park opens in downtown Tampa
Tampa’s latest downtown park has opened at the corner of Morgan Street and Channelside Drive, across the street from Amalie Arena. “Communication Park” occupies approximately two square yards of greenspace near the new Water Street development district and is dominated by a large round metal sculpture titled ‘COMMUNICATION’. “We think the art sends a powerful…
Read MoreRangers fan wants to know where all the stuff they have in New York is
Lonnie Keith, who lives in Brooklyn, is in Tampa to watch the Eastern Conference Final between the New York Rangers and the Tampa Bay Lightning and can’t seem to find any of the things he can find in abundance in New York. “Yo, where’s the subway? You’ze don’t got no public transportation over here?” he…
Read MoreRogue pedestrian crosswalk sign responds to commands
The newly installed pedestrian crosswalk sign at the intersection of Morgan Street and Channelside Drive in downtown Tampa actually responds when the “push to cross” button is pressed… for now. “What?!? No!! That’s impossible!” said Tampa Director of Pedestrian Foot Traffic Jonathan Chillbrain. “Those buttons are supposed to pacify people waiting to cross streets, thinking…
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