Distinguishing Features

For example, one successful local business is called Portable On-Demand Storage. If you're renovating your house, they'll put a storage unit in your yard and you can stow your stuff there. It's like borrowing somebody's garage. It's been a huge success here in the region. Businesses like that are not high-tech in nature, yet they are still pushing the frontiers of consumer products and business services.

Tampa Bay is not traditionally a seat of corporate headquarters, but major corporations know the value of our area to their business. Our communications infrastructure is attractive to back-office operations like call centers and information retrieval businesses that employ hundreds if not thousands of people each. The communications infrastructure was built in part to support major military command operations at MacDill Air Force Base -- a good example of how one industry tends to support others.

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