Orlando’s Citrus Bowl shows that glamour still counts
That’s not to say that major team sports aren’t important. Home to nine major professional league teams already, the state will add a 10th in 2015 when an Orlando franchise joins Major League Soccer....
View ArticlePlay Ball! The sports economic impact is a win for all
The sports economic impact in the Super Region results in billions of dollars. That’s quite a score. In May 1957, as Brooklyn’s beloved Dodgers and their crosstown rivals, the New York Giants, began to...
View ArticleHome Field Advantage for Florida’s Sports Economic Development
An annual rite of passage, spring training attracts visitors and dollars. Editor’s Note: This is the debut of Forward Florida’s new feature focusing on the business of sports and its impact on economic...
View ArticleMoney Ball | Florida’s Sport Economy
Sports’ Economic Impact Grows. John Webb has proven quite the forecaster. When asked last year about the $36 billion economic impact that sports and recreation has on the state’s economy, the president...
View ArticleWorld Cup Soccer in Orlando
Orlando City Soccer’s new stadium shows the (World) Cup spills over in Florida and across the region. The Orlando City Soccer Club in mid-June unveiled the artist’s rendering of the team’s new stadium....
View ArticleEconomic Development Strategies – From The DEO
The debate about the roles of the private and public sectors in economic development often misses the point it's less about the scope and limit of the sectors' respective roles and more about the...
View ArticleFlorida Football: Pigskin Paydirt
Florida’s college football programs bring big bucks to their local communities. The fact that major college football and basketball have become “big business” isn’t exactly news. The proof is in the...
View ArticleSun, Sand & Sutures – MEDICAL TOURISM
With 100 million visitors envisioned in the not too distant future, Florida has all the right stuff to become a major player in the emerging MEDICAL TOURISM field. The man who arguably was history's...
View ArticleBowled Over
Florida’s Bowl Games put up big numbers and the newest one has a special purpose. Cure Bowl. Some decry the ever-expanding number of college football bowl games, while others point to the economic...
View ArticleHats Off!
Two Stetson Hatters Baseball Alums Win Coveted MLB Awards Consider for a moment college baseball’s most prestigious programs: USC, LSU, Texas, Arizona State, Cal State Fullerton and Miami. Between...
View ArticleSpring Training 2015
Like everything surrounding Major League Baseball, spring training has become big business. As “pitchers and catchers report” (magical words to fans everywhere) to their respective training camps, a...
View ArticleCitrus Greening in Florida
In the days before Walt Disney made Florida a mecca for theme parks, back when South Beach was merely the southern end of Miami Beach and a Jaguar was a luxury car and not an NFL player, citrus was...
View ArticleTampa Bay Rays Future?
They’re not Les Rayons yet. Despite talk that began surfacing last fall about the Tampa Bay Rays moving, possibly to Montreal, the Rays will open the 2015 season at Tropicana Field on April 6, and St....
View ArticleTop 10 Florida Movies
Based on Florida’s illustrious movie past, Film Florida’s dream of reinvigorating the state’s film industry via a replenished film tax credit is far from a Hollywood dream. Hundreds of amazing motion...
View ArticleTop 5 Florida TV Shows
Please check out our list of what we consider the best Florida TV shows both set and filmed in Florida. We want to bring attention to important tax credit legislation that we hope is included in the...
View ArticleIf You Build It…
Florida is poised for a major investment in sports facilities. ORLANDO CITY'S STADIUM Orlando City Soccer has taken the traditional professional sports team playbook and torn it to shreds. Rather than...
View ArticleWhat Does “Grexit” Mean for Florida?
Greeks voted overwhelmingly Sunday to reject the bailout package offered by its European Union trading partners, a move that could ultimately force Greece out of the eurozone. For weeks, pundits have...
View ArticleFlorida and the Emmys
The Primetime Emmys are, by far, the most frustrating of the old-line awards shows. The television academy is prone to keep nominating once-great shows past their prime, ignoring great newcomers for...
View ArticleLawton Chiles’ Legacy and Florida Redistricting
Former Gov. Lawton Chiles was a larger than life figure, a man who won his first U.S. Senate campaign by walking more than 1,000 miles from Pensacola to Key West to raise his name identification and...
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner and Florida Political Ripples
The reaction from Florida’s congressional delegation to House Speaker John Boehner’s surprising decision to resign from Congress pretty accurately reflects the divisions that grip the nation’s capital...
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