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The Straz Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue in Tampa, Florida, United States. It opened in July 1987 as the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and was renamed in 2009. [1] The Straz Center is owned by the City of Tampa and operated by the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., a not-for-profit ...
Formerly known as the Tampa Fairgrounds Arena, the Expo Hall has been used as a home arena for various sports teams while also being used for concerts, trade shows, exhibitions, and conventions. It's most iconic notable tenant being the Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL from 1992 to 1993.
Large-scale events during Gasparilla Season include the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (established 1970), the Tampa Rough Rider's St. Patrick's Day Parade (first held in 1977), the Gasparilla Distance Classic road race (established 1978), the Gasparilla Film Festival (established 2006), the Gasparilla Music Festival (established 2013), and ...
Fastlane is a pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event first produced by WWE in 2015. The name of the event was a reference to its position on the "Road to WrestleMania", being held in the two-month period between the Royal Rumble and WWE's flagship event; [1] the first two Fastlane events were held in February before moving to March.
The city's original development plan called for the Tampa Convention Center to be built concurrently with a large hotel. However, financial difficulties and problems with developers caused this portion of the plan to be delayed until 2000, when the 27-story Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel, the city's largest at the time, opened less than a block away on Garrison Channel.
The Rialto Theatre is located in an area of Tampa's Franklin Street nominated for listing in National Register of Historic Places March 19, 2010 Tampa Bay Times, [1] and recently nicknamed the "Yellow Brick Row" during the Better Block Project North Franklin Street in January 2015.
Homicide detectives are asking tenants of The Residences at James Place and The Residences at Akita Lane to check their surveillance footage for any video from the early morning hours of July 11.
In August 2002, the building's naming rights were sold to the St. Petersburg Times, which became the Tampa Bay Times in January 2012; accordingly, the arena was known as the St. Pete Times Forum (2002–2012) and Tampa Bay Times Forum (2012–2014).