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Chip Wells, crime prevention specialist for the St. Petersburg Police Department, shared safety tips with real estate agents at a free seminar Wednesday. [SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN | Times]

Safety tips for Realtors: forget the taser and spike heels, always follow, never lead a client

November 9

Expected to open in late 2020, HRI Properties' project next to Tampa City Hall consists of a combined 17-story, 230-room Hyatt Place hotel and a 115-room Hyatt House hotel, with approximately 4,000 square feet of meeting space, 3,200 square feet of ground floor retail space and 220-space public parking garage. (Rendering courtesy HRI Properties/Baker Barrios)

Hotel developer closes on block next to Tampa City Hall for Hyatt project

November 9

Strategic Property Partners broke ground Thursday on 815 Water Street, its first residential project, which is expected to open in late 2020. From left, Strategic senior vice president for residential development Rebecca Snyder, CEO James Nozar, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Strategic co-owner Jeff Vinik, and Strategic development manager Danny Mora. RICHARD DANIELSON | Times

Have a household income of $59,000 a year? There might be an apartment in Water Street Tampa�s first residential building for you

November 8

Largo investor Ben Mallah paid $20 million last week for the Holiday Inn Westshore, his second big purchase in the Westshore business district in recent months. EVE EDELHEIT | Times (2016)

Investor Ben Mallah pays $20 million for Holiday Inn Westshore

November 5

L.A. Newsome, who opened the NautiGirl Beachwear shop, 216 Second Street North, St. Petersburg, in March, 2018, says business slowed because of an unusually hot summer and the red tide that drove tourists away.
[SCOTT KEELER | Times]

As more shops open in St. Pete�s booming downtown, should Chamber of Commerce find a new home?

November 2

A ladder leads into a hidden bunker under a shed at a home in the V.M. Ybor neighborhood. The house used to belong to rum- and numbers-runner Jimmy Lumia and was likely used to hide his illicit wares. [OCTAVIO JONES | Times]

From bunkers to tunnels, Mafia history stirs underworld exploration in Ybor City

November 1

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School News

The Florida Board of Education meets in Pinellas County on May 16, 2018. [Jeffrey S. Solochek | Times]

ICYMI: Florida education news in review, week of Dec. 10, 2018

With 13 advertised teaching vacancies, James Elementary at 4302 E Ellicot St. in Tampa is one of four schools in Hillsborough County that soon will get help from high-ranking administrators working in the classroom. The administrators start in January and will work until the end of the school year. [BRONTE WITTPENN | Times]

Short of teachers at some schools, Hillsborough recruits top bosses to fill in

Tampa City Council member Harry Cohen answers a question during the Dec. 11 Mayor’s candidate forum at Sparkman Wharf. The candidates discussed different topics related to Transportation.

Carlton: Okay, mayoral candidates, fun’s over. Time to gird your political loins

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Soon, more than half of Florida�s adjunct professors could belong to a union

Amaya Akbar, 10, and Ky’lee Barnes, 7, prepare for a recent violin lesson at the Cyrus Greene Community Center. Both students receive lessons thanks to a partnership between the Florida Orchestra and the University Area Community Development Center’s Prodigy Program. KENYA WOODARD | Special to the Times

Florida Orchestra, Prodigy gain added dollars for violin lessons

Florida deputy education commissioner Linda Champion testifies during a 2016 hearing in the Citizens for Strong Schools case. [The Florida Channel]

More Florida Department of Education leadership departures planned

Marva Johnson and Mori Hosseini lead a conversation of Gov. -elect Ron DeSantis' education advisory transition team on Dec. 13, 2018. [The Florida Channel]

Florida education news: DeSantis transition, teacher pay, discrimination complaint and more

Negotiators for the United School Employees of Pasco and the Pasco school district anticipated movement during contract talks Dec. 13, 2018, but didn't get to where they thought they were headed. [Jeffrey S. Solochek | Times]

No decisions emerge in tense talks for Pasco school employee contracts

Dr. Jonathan Ellen, inset, resigned Tuesday as CEO of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, along with two other administrators, after a Tampa Bay Times investigation found dramatic increases in the hospital's mortality rates for heart surgeries. Ellen later resigned from several local boards not connected with the hospital. [TAILYR IRVINE | Times]

When he resigned, All Children’s CEO left more than the hospital

Michael Griffin is the new leader of the University of South Florida Consolidation Task Force. [Courtesy Mike Griffin]

Mike Griffin will lead USF�s consolidation push after resignation by All Children�s CEO

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