Finance, retail, healthcare, insurance, shipping by air and sea,
national defense, professional sports, tourism, and real estate all play a vital role in the area's economy.
[102] Hillsborough County alone has an estimated 740,000 employees, a figure which is projected to increase to 922,000 by 2015.
[102] Several large corporations, such as banks and telecommunications companies, maintain regional offices in Tampa.
Several
Fortune 1000 companies are headquartered in the metropolitan area,
[103] including
OSI Restaurant Partners,
WellCare,
TECO Energy, and
Raymond James Financial.
Largest employers in Tampa (2013)[104]
| BayCare Health System |
19,600 |
Healthcare |
| Publix Super Market |
13,800 |
Retail |
| HCA West Florida |
13,150 |
Healthcare |
| Frontier Communications |
9,950 |
Telecommunications |
| Tampa General Hospital |
6,600 |
Healthcare |
| Wal-Mart |
5,800 |
Retail |
| Florida Hospital |
5,100 |
Healthcare |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
5,000 |
Finance |
| Moffitt Cancer Center |
4,300 |
Healthcare |
| Citi |
4,000 |
Finance |
Downtown Tampa is undergoing significant development and
redevelopment in line with a general national trend toward urban
residential development. As of April 2007, the Tampa Downtown
Partnership noted development proceeding on 20 residential, hotel, and
mixed-use projects.
[105]
Many of the new downtown developments are nearing completion in the
midst of a housing market slump, which has 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
are nearing completion, which city leaders hope will make downtown into
a 24-hour neighborhood instead of
9 to 5 business district.
[106] As of 2010, Tampa residents faced a decline in rent of 2%. Nationally rent had decreased 4%.
[107] The Tampa Business Journal found Tampa to be the number two city for real estate investment in 2014.
[108]
Tampa's port 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 currently 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
MS Ryndam, Royal Caribbean's
Grandeur of the Seas and
Radiance of the Seas, and Carnival's
Inspiration and
Legend.
[109]
The main
server farm for Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia Foundation projects is located in Tampa.
[110]
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,
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.
Since the year 2000, Tampa has seen a notable upsurge in high-market
demand from consumers, signaling more wealth concentrated in the area.
[111]
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