By popular demand, Tampa Bay’s forthcoming imaginary NBA team will be called The Thunder. The most amusing name was the “St. Pete Times Tampans.” That’s Tampans with two a’s.
I was thinking about your answers to the “what do we need” query, and concluded that Tampa Bay has everything we could want. The trouble is that there is very little here that makes us superior to other places, either. Even our formerly world-class airport has been slipping, and is now relegated to “about average.” What (existing or acquired) should Tampa Bay promote and strive to become internationally recognized for?
John
4 years ago
A world class Mass Transit system that….
Oh hell, that ain’t going to happen any time soon. Gimmie a few hours and I will come up with it.
Laura
4 years ago
Our Lightning fast exits out of Tampa when a Cat 4 or 5 is on the way in.
I just asked my husband the same question and the first thing he said was “Mons Venus”.
oh brother.
Side Salad - Food For Lack Of Thought
4 years ago
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Salutary crutons go out to to TBT, which featured the Salad in a list of Tampa Bay blog hot spots. There’s a companion piece with mini-features on local blogs, including Friends of the Salad, such as the excellent Sticks of Fire, the always enticing …
John
4 years ago
World class beaches and wetlands and our overall conservation efforts to preserve them as well as live cleaner in a delicate environment (too late for this and the state would flub it up).
Tampa IS known for it’s strip clubs — just ask players who come here for spring training and hockey players who get busted for lap dances (a player on the Dallas Stars had that happen)… It’s not goign to be an adult-capital of the world any time soon but Tampa could strive in that red-light direction.
kate
4 years ago
The birthplace of Hooters?
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog » a brand new brand
4 years ago
[...] A few months ago, I asked a similar ice cream question. Little did I know I could have charged $15,000 for that. But the Blake Project will find out what I have already learned. Until Tampa is synonymous with something – anything – successful, branding will be difficult. [...]