Tampa, Florida

==Economy==
Finance, retail, healthcare, insurance, shipping by air and sea, [[National security|national defense]], professional sports, tourism, and real estate all play vital roles in the area's economy.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.tampachamber.com/economic_development.asp |title=Economic Development in the Tampa Bay Area |publisher=Tampachamber.com |access-date=April 17, 2011 |archive-date=February 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208061614/http://www.tampachamber.com/economic_development.asp |url-status=dead}}</ref> Hillsborough County alone has an estimated 740,000 employees, a figure which is projected to increase to 922,000 by 2015.<ref name="autogenerated1" />

Since the year 2000, Tampa has seen a notable upsurge in high-market demand from consumers, signaling more wealth concentrated in the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/09/Business/Tampa_Bay_s_new_addre.shtml |title=Business: Tampa Bay's new address: Upscale, USA |work=St Petersburg Times |date=July 9, 2006 |access-date=April 17, 2011 |archive-date=December 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202094653/http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/09/Business/Tampa_Bay_s_new_addre.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021, the [[United States Department of Labor|U.S. Department of Labor]] awarded a two-year grant of nearly US$3 million to a program called "Connecting Talent to Careers" led by the [[Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing]] Institute and [[Tooling U-SME]] to deliver a rapid re-employment program to address a shortage of skilled labor in manufacturing in the region exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arminstitute.org/department-labor-grant-amskills-arm-tooling-u/ |title=ARM Institute Announces Department of Labor Grant of $2.997M for Displaced Worker Training in the Tampa Bay, Florida Region |work=ARM Institute |date=October 20, 2021 |access-date=January 3, 2022 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104140245/https://arminstitute.org/department-labor-grant-amskills-arm-tooling-u/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Corporations and nonprofits===
Several large corporations, such as banks and telecommunications companies, maintain regional offices in Tampa. The largest credit union in Florida, [[Suncoast Credit Union]], is headquartered in Tampa.

Several [[Fortune 1000]] companies are headquartered in the metropolitan area,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/ |title=FORTUNE 500 2007: FORTUNE annual ranking of America's largest corporations |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |publisher=CNN |access-date=April 17, 2011 |archive-date=April 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425114436/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/ |url-status=live }}</ref> including [[Bloomin' Brands]], [[WellCare]], [[Jabil]], [[TECO Energy]], and [[Raymond James Financial]]. Other companies headquartered in Tampa include [[Odyssey Marine Exploration]], [[Greenway Health]], [[College Hunks Hauling Junk]], [[Arturo Fuente]], [[J.C. Newman Cigar Company]], [[Masonite International]], [[Sykes Enterprises]], [[Cott Corporation]], [[The Melting Pot (restaurant)|The Melting Pot]], [[Checkers and Rally's]] and [[The Mosaic Company]]
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|+Largest employers in Tampa (2013)<ref>[http://www.tampabay.org/site-selection/major-employers Major Employers] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226051514/http://www.tampabay.org/site-selection/major-employers |date=February 26, 2015 }}, Tampa Bay Partnership.</ref>
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! Employer !! Employees !! Industry
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|BayCare Health System ||19,600 ||Healthcare
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|[[Publix|Publix Super Market]] ||13,800 ||Retail
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|HCA West Florida ||13,150 ||Healthcare
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|[[Frontier Communications]] ||9,950 ||Telecommunications
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|[[Tampa General Hospital]] ||6,600 ||Healthcare
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|[[Wal-Mart]] ||5,800 ||Retail
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|Florida Hospital ||5,100 ||Healthcare
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|[[JPMorgan Chase & Co.]] ||5,000 ||Finance
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|[[Moffitt Cancer Center]] ||4,300 ||Healthcare
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|[[Citi]] ||4,000 ||Finance
|}

===Downtown===
{{Update section|date=January 2022}}

Downtown Tampa is undergoing significant development and redevelopment in line with a general national trend toward urban residential development. In April 2007, the Tampa Downtown Partnership noted development proceeding on 20 residential, hotel, and mixed-use projects.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tampasdowntown.com/default.aspx |title=Tampa Downtown Partnership&nbsp;– Elevating The Potential |publisher=Tampasdowntown.com |access-date=April 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412011452/http://www.tampasdowntown.com/Default.aspx |archive-date=April 12, 2011}}</ref> Many of the new downtown developments were nearing completion in the midst of a housing market slump, which caused numerous projects to be delayed or revamped, and some of the 20 projects TDP lists have not broken ground and are being refinanced. Nonetheless, several developments were completed, making downtown into a 24-hour neighborhood instead of a [[9 to 5]] business district.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tampagov.net/dept_mayor/files/speech_march_2005.pdf |title=Remarks of Mayor Pam Iorio State of the City March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051028222114/http://www.tampagov.net/dept_mayor/files/speech_march_2005.pdf |archive-date=October 28, 2005}}</ref> {{As of|2010}}, Tampa residents faced a decline in rent of 2%. Nationally rent had decreased 4%.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2010/03/08/story8.html?b=1268024400%255E2986831&s=industry&i=resi_real_estate |title=Seven rental communities seek bankruptcy protection as multifamily struggles |work=[[Tampa Bay Business Journal]] |date=March 8, 2010 |access-date=April 17, 2011 |first=Michael |last=Hinman |archive-date=October 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026021747/http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2010/03/08/story8.html?b=1268024400%5E2986831&s=industry&i=resi_real_estate |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''Tampa Business Journal'' found Tampa to be the number two city for real estate investment in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |author=Snider, Eric |title=More good news for CRE: Tampa Bay rental markets ranks high |work=[[Tampa Bay Business Journal]] |date=February 20, 2014}}</ref>

===Port Tampa Bay===
[[Port Tampa Bay]] is now the seventh largest in the nation and Florida's largest tonnage port, handling nearly half of all seaborne commerce that passes through the state. Tampa ranks second in the state behind Miami in terms of [[cruise ship]] travel. Besides smaller regional cruise ships such as Yacht Starship and SunCruz Casino, Tampa also serves as a port of call for three cruise lines: Holland America's [[Pacific Aria|MS ''Ryndam'']], Royal Caribbean's [[MS Grandeur of the Seas|''Grandeur of the Seas'']] and [[MS Radiance of the Seas|''Radiance of the Seas'']], and Carnival's [[Carnival Inspiration|''Inspiration'']] and [[Carnival Legend|''Legend'']].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brownfields.noaa.gov/htmls/portfields/pilot_tampa.html |title=NOAA Brownfield: Pilot Port, Tampa Bay, FL |publisher=noaa.gov |access-date=May 13, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203071734/http://brownfields.noaa.gov/htmls/portfields/pilot_tampa.html |archive-date=February 3, 2006}}</ref>

===MacDill Air Force Base===
[[File:Kc-135r-6thog-macdill.jpg|thumb|A KC-135R stationed at MacDill flying over Tampa Bay]]

[[MacDill Air Force Base]] remains a major employer as the parent installation for over 15,000 active uniformed military, [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] (DoD) civil service and DoD contractor personnel in the Tampa Bay area. A significant majority of the civil service and contractor personnel are, in fact, themselves retired career military personnel.

In addition to the [[6th Air Mobility Wing]], which is "host wing" for the base, MacDill is also home to Headquarters, [[United States Central Command]] (USCENTCOM), Headquarters, [[United States Special Operations Command]] (USSOCOM), the [[927th Air Refueling Wing]], Headquarters, [[United States Marine Forces Central Command]] (USMARCENT), Headquarters, [[United States Special Operations Command Central]] (USSOCCENT), and numerous other military activities of the active and reserve components of the armed forces.