Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Business
Hooters plans to open a new franchise restaurant in Lutz as the chain closes longtime Florida locations following its 2025 bankruptcy restructuring, though no address or opening date has been announced.
Business
The first Taste of North Tampa Bay food festival is set for March 13, 2027, at Saddlebrook Resort, with organizers projecting up to 80 restaurants and 10,000 attendees.
Business
Chewy Vet Care opened its seventh Florida veterinary clinic Sept. 4 at 17637 Harpers Run in Lutz, offering a treatment viewing window, personalized visit monitors and integrated online pharmacy access.
Business
Raprager Farms in Odessa reopens Friday, Sept. 18 with its annual Fall Pumpkin Festival and the debut of Whizk & Brew, a new restaurant led by Culinary Institute of America graduate and executive chef Jessica Tomlinson.
Business
A Washington Economics Group study finds BayCare's Pasco County economic impact grew 71% to $677 million, driven by the 2023 opening of BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel, as the health system's statewide impact reaches $13 billion.
Business
Tampa Bay gas prices jumped 23 cents in one day to $4.09 a gallon on Wednesday, Sept. 9, driven by Middle East attacks on oil facilities, while a Mobil station on State Road 54 in Lutz offered one of the region's lowest prices at $3.57 for cash.
Business
Metro Development Group broke ground Tuesday, Sept. 1, on The Social amenity center at Angeline in Land O' Lakes and announced a BayCare Health System partnership to place a care navigator on-site for the master-planned community's residents.
Business
Hillsborough County commissioners unanimously approved a short-term rental ordinance requiring registration, a $200 annual fee and a local contact person for an estimated 3,000 properties in unincorporated areas including Lutz and Odessa, taking effect Jan. 1, 2027.
Business
Dr. Louis Matherne IV, a general surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital-North in Lutz, has reached 1,000 robotic surgeries at the BayCare hospital.
Business
Bahama Breeze at 25830 Sierra Center Blvd. in Lutz will close Nov. 7 and reopen as a Yard House on Dec. 9 as parent company Darden Restaurants retires the brand nationwide.
Business
Eric and Adriana Fralick, the team behind Tampa's Michelin-starred Koya and Noble Rice, plan to open Toro, a sushi and ramen restaurant, at the Shoppes at Starkey Crossing on Gunn Highway in Odessa as early as October.
Business
Joe Planz, owner of Providence Cattle Company in Pasco County, says President Trump's 90-day pause on foreign beef tariffs could force local ranchers out of business if extended, as imported beef enters the market at 25% below current prices.
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