Each year, the NFL seeks to improve the surrounding communities of the Super Bowl host city through the Super Bowl Legacy Grant Program, by giving an annual $1 million contribution from the NFL Foundation. This year, a $2 million grant — supported by funding from the NFL Foundation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Tampa […]
Fans won’t flock to Tampa for Super Bowl LV for another two months, but, the activities have already begun. “Road To Gameday” Restaurant Week starts Friday, Dec. 4 and runs through Dec. 13. “We add that flair and we add that elegance to the dish,” Ava Evans said. Evans says you can drive from bay
For LaKendria Robinson, the director of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee’s Business Connect program, the pandemic has “been both a blessing and a curse.” The program was created to ensure local companies — particularly those at least 51% woman-, veteran- or minority-owned — are part of the bidding process for Super Bowl-related contracts.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – One local woman is heading a program that is ensuring diverse and minority businesses have opportunities to contract with the Super Bowl. The biggest stage in football will be in Tampa in February. COVID-19 may have put NFL football on hold, but those planning Super Bowl LV have continued to prepare
The impending developments and booming business spurs excite the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s LaKendria Robinson. And it’s Robinson who will play a relatively small but critical role in fueling what comes down the pipeline. As director of the chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator program, Robinson works to help the chamber make the most of Tampa
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