Sure enough, the Tampa Bay History Center opened on time – and in time for Super Bowl. Better to be able to showcase this area’s history to visitors and media – too many of whom think we’re all about sun, strip clubs and football — than to show renderings of what a construction project will become after they leave.
And the new Westin Tampa Bay Airport hotel on Tampa’s Rocky Point, capitalized on its opening a fortnight ago with Super Bowl bookings that helped offset the drop in corporate and tourist business.
And recall the Channelside entertainment district. It opened the week after all those Super Bowl XXXV visitors left in 2001.