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Caught @ Steam Friday’s
11-21-17 Dishing with Mark n Carrie
1st USF Football Pride Night
USF vs UCF Football, War on the I-4
This Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve
Small Business Saturday is Coming!
November 25th, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
They are the job creators, the entrepreneurs that help build our economy. The mom and pop shops whose very presence makes a neighborhood, YOUR neighborhood. The Shop Small Movement inspires people to shop with and support these small businesses as well as give back to the places that have given their communities so much.
Do your part…Shop Small, Shop Ybor!
Make any purchase at the Ybor City Saturday Market on Saturday, November 25th and receive a FREE shopping bag!
Florida documentary series ‘Making it in America’ features Ybor City immigrants
Forbidden Christmas: A Naughty Cabaret
Santa will need lots of coal for this naughty bunch of cabaret singers! Join the men of Una Voce: The Gay Men’s Chorus of Tampa Bay for this one-night-only bawdy salute to the Yuletide. Selections will include familiar standards that poke fun at the holiday season, as well as original parodies that only Una Voce can deliver. Spend your evening with song & spirits, a silent auction, and saucy surprises!
From the MC Film Mail Bag
New Marriott hiring on Boy Scout Blvd. New AC Hotel in Tampa Bay Recruiting 45 New Full-Time Jobs
Tampa’s New Premier Downtown Hotel Conducting Casting Call Nov. 28 in Anticipation of Early Winter Opening
TAMPA, Fla. (November 15, 2017) – AC Hotels by Marriott, the modern, design-driven, lifestyle Brand from Marriott International, Inc., has announced an open casting call to hire 45 full-time positions on Nov. 28 from 1:30-4:30 PM at Bar Method Tampa located at 4102 W. Boy Scout Blvd., Ste 1.
The 175-room AC Hotel Tampa Airport is scheduled to open in early winter 2018 in Tampa’s Westshore neighborhood.
AC Hotel Tampa Airport is seeking unique individuals who exemplify the modern AC Hotel brand for a variety of positions including Guest Experience Specialists, Guest Environment Specialists, Lifestyle Bartender, Guest Service Expert, Maintenance, Loss Prevention, Cooks and other operational positions.
“AC Hotels is revolutionizing the way we hotel, and we seek a team of passionate individuals who exemplify our brand and will provide our guests with highly specialized service,” said, Aaron Hoefen, General Manager of the AC Hotel Tampa Airport. “With the addition of more than 120 jobs during construction, as well as 45 new permanent jobs for ongoing operations, the AC Hotel Tampa Airport will have substantial economic impact on the Tampa Bay area.”
Located three miles from Tampa International Airport, property highlights include high-design guest rooms and public spaces with sleek furnishings and intuitive technology features. A central feature of the property will be its exquisite AC Lounge highlighted by a full bar featuring a mixologist bar tender. When combined with the hotel’s 2,170 square feet of flexible meeting space, outdoor area, swimming pool, AC Lounge and additional luxury amenities, the AC Hotel Tampa Airport modern chic rooms and exceptional personalized service will make the hotel a premier location for business meetings, weddings, weekend gateway and much more.
The AC Hotel brand focuses on the beautiful essentials, while also pay homage to the diversity of the bay area. “As we near the official opening of the hotel, we are greatly looking forward to contributing to the vitality and success of our exciting city,” Hoefen added.
To RSVP for the open casting call: AC Hotel Tampa Airport Open Casting Call
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About AC Hotels by Marriott:
AC Hotels by Marriott®, a lifestyle brand that celebrates a new way to hotel complemented by a European soul and Spanish roots, boasts more than 90 design-led hotels in Brazil, Denmark, Italy, France, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United States. Design-driven AC Hotels edit away the unnecessary to remove friction, providing thoughtfully designed moments of beauty, allowing guests to focus on what’s important to them. Property highlights include high-design guest rooms and public spaces with sleek furnishings and intuitive technology features. For more information, visit ac-hotels.com. For more information, visit http://achotels.marriott.com.
Instagram: @achotels, #ACHotels
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Twitter: @achotels, #ACHotels
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is the world’s largest hotel company based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, with nearly 6,000 properties in 120 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts. The company’s 30 leading brands include: Bulgari®, The Ritz-Carlton® and The Ritz-Carlton Reserve®, St. Regis®, W®, EDITION®, JW Marriott®, The Luxury Collection®, Marriott Hotels®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Renaissance® Hotels, Sheraton®, Delta Hotels by MarriottSM, Marriott Executive Apartments®, Marriott Vacation Club®, Autograph Collection® Hotels, Tribute Portfolio™, Design Hotels™, Gaylord Hotels®, Courtyard®, Four Points® by Sheraton, SpringHill Suites®, Fairfield Inn & Suites®, Residence Inn®, TownePlace Suites®, AC Hotels by Marriott®, Aloft®, Element®, Moxy® Hotels, and Protea Hotels by Marriott®. The company also operates award-winning loyalty programs: Marriott Rewards®, which includes The Ritz-Carlton Rewards®, and Starwood Preferred Guest®. For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com and @MarriottIntl.
You Just Can Not Make This Up!!!
Back in the early 1980’s we had a friend called Crazy Richard. His name should have said it all. His parents owned an orange grove and was always bragging that he was a “True Southerner.” We invited him to a Thanksgiving Party. Richard said that he would be happy to bring a True Southern Holiday Dish. Proudly Richard walked into the party with a fancy cut crystal dish. In the dish were raisons mixed with pecans. We asked what makes raisins southern? Richard said that this were not just plain raisons but homemade raisons that his grandmother made. Then we got the lecture that the nuts were not pecans but pecons!!! A pecan is something you put under your bed and pee in. Pecon is what you eats. Ever since then we call them pecons and make this dish all the time. Sadly the next year Richard died of AIDS age 24.
Caught @ Bradley’s on 7th
Caught @ Hamburger Mary’s Ybor
Caught @ Steam Fridays at the Honey Pot
11-14-17 Dishing with Mark n Carrie
THIS Wednesday Night
Tree Lighting in Centro Ybor 6PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/136363817012219/
THIS Thursday Night
USF PRIDE NIGHT
CONGRATULATIONS
Metro Wellness and Community Centers celebrated their 25th Anniversary!!!!
FREE
Ybor Holiday Calendar
Ybor For Heroes
New in Ybor City. Visit their web site for upcoming events.
https://www.yborforheroes.org/
North Ybor City
Like the new fan page today at…
https://www.facebook.com/northybor/
From the MC Film Mail Bag
Mayor Buckhorn names Brian Dugan as Tampa’s new chief of police
Tampa Bay Times
Calling it a “battlefield promotion,” Mayor Bob Buckhorn on Tuesday took the “interim” from Police Chief Brian Dugan’s title. Buckhorn called the 50-year-old department veteran and asked him a simple question.
Tampa ranks high among US cities with fast-growing incomes
Tampa Bay Business Journal
A study by the personal finance site SmartAsset shows that the median income for Tampa households increased in 2016 to $50,405, up from $44,432 in 2015.
With $15 million donation to USF, top donors urge others to follow their lead
Tampa Bay Times
At a black tie gala at Amalie Arena on Saturday, philanthropic giants Pam and Les Muma surprised the crowd by announcing yet another massive donation to the University of South Florida.
After $1.7M renovation, Port Tampa Bay opens cruise terminal that can handle bigger ships
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Passengers taking Royal Caribbean’s Empress of the Seas out of Port Tampa Bay started their trip in the port’s newly improved cruise terminal 6, which has opened after months of renovation.
Airport Tampa International Airport’s cargo volume jumps, with more on the way
Tampa Bay Times
Over the last couple of years, the story of the double-digit growth of Tampa International Airport’s cargo business has been a story about Amazon.com.
You Can Not Make This Up
Here is a very cool “Did You Know?” story. Back on the 1990’s Ybor City was thinking about decorating for Christmas. Diane & Dean James were very active property & business owners in Ybor City. Dean is a very creative artist. At one time owned and operated a stain glass studio and glass blowing studio in Ybor. Dean is also very talented with metal. At one of the many Ybor meeting, Diane & Dean came up with the idea……. To build light bridges across 7th. Then they wrapped lights on the metal art works. Everybody so loved them that the light bridges were never taken down! Today they are maintained by TECO. Some Holiday decorations are just so FABULOUS that we should enjoy them year round!
