St. Pete Catalyst

Pinellas Park-based Good Samaritan Church, in partnership with the Recovery Epicenter Foundation, recently purchased a 3,150 sq.ft. building in St. Pete’s Grand Central District. The sale price was $1,225,000. 
The owners plan to use the space at 1940 Central Ave. to open Beloved Community Café, a nonprofit social outreach concept where visitors pay what they can. Additionally, the new complex will include a worship center for Sunday brunch services and events.  
It will also be home to a member...

Alte Beverages, makers of hemp-devised drinks, is moving into the Florida market. Alte has started to sell its products in the St. Pete area through collaborations with Sea Dog Brewing Company and Great Bay Distributors.
The company’s local presence is the product of a partnership between Alte Beverages CEO and co-founder Michael Dunn and Sea Dog Brewing Company owner Fred Forsley. They met last year through a mutual connection.
Both have experience in the beverage market. Forsley founded and le...

TSOLife, an innovative technology company focused on enhancing the senior living home experience, has received an additional $43 million in capital, after completing a Series B funding round led by PeakSpan Capital.
Through advanced AI technology, the Tampa-based company has developed a platform that uses resident interviews to create applicable data that senior living homes can utilize every day. The platform is called Minerva.
“Our whole goal is to continuously invest in our product and our de...

Residents of Clearwater’s South Beach III condominiums were required to evacuate Tuesday “out of an abundance of caution,” according to Joelle Castelli, the City’s public communications director. The mandatory evacuation was enforced after cracks were found in a column supporting the building.  
South Beach III, 1460 Gulf Blvd., was undergoing permitted work in the garage when the cracks were discovered by a construction worker. Soon after, the condos’ management company, engineer and the City o...

Tampa Bay Tech will host its annual poweredUp Tampa Bay Tech Festival May 14, at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg.
Every year, the event brings tech professionals, enthusiasts and students together, providing them with opportunities to meet industry leaders and learn about new innovations.
Arnie Bellini, co-founder and former CEO of Tampa-based ConnectWise, is scheduled to deliver keynote remarks at the 11 a.m.-6 p.m. event. Bellini began developing innovative software in the early 1980s b...

OrderlyMeds, a Georgia-based medical weight loss and health technology company, is expanding to the Tampa area. It will start leasing a 50,000 sq foot Falkenburg Road facility in August for pharmaceutical manufacturing and office space.
Founder and CEO Chris Spears said his team chose Tampa out of a national search. “Tampa was above and beyond in their receptiveness, just being open, friendly, communicative to what we were trying to accomplish”, he said. “It’s more about the people, I think a fa...