Harris Mullen was one of those people who you wished you had known better, but felt privileged to have known at all. As a business writer and a magazine editor, I had some entrée into Mullen’s milieu.
The word is overused, but he was a visionary. He focused on business as a publication commodity before it was Florida fashionable; he started Florida Trend magazine. He developed Ybor Square. He saw the Tampa streetcar as an economic development tool and light-rail starter. He was a natural resource for Tampa Bay.
And to his core, Harris Mullen was the consummate gentleman.