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09/27/16 ST. PETERSBURG — It remains to be seen whether the Tampa Bay area will embrace the Cross-Bay Ferry that sets sail in November, but local businesses are eager to get on board. The first [...]

05/22/2013 TAMPA — Greg Dronkert said he gets many requests from people hoping his company will start passenger ferry service in their community. The president of HMS Ferries Inc. told a group of [...]

05/11/13 TAMPA — Ed Turanchik, he of Olympic dreams and proposals for commuter rail as an antidote to traffic snarls, has a new big pitch. Catch this: high-speed ferry service. Turanchik, a [...]

2/19/96 TAMPA — From the bridge that carries Columbus Drive across the Hillsborough River, downtown Tampa’s gleaming towers seem to rise from the water’s surface. It’s a [...]

Excerpt from The Tampa Tribune, December 19, 2003 Civitas, the brainchild of Turanchik and developer Bill Bishop, has presented a dramatic proposal for what could be the biggest economic boon [...]

Excerpt from the St. Petersburg Times, December 3, 2003 TAMPA — A group of private investors led by one-time Olympic promoter Ed Turanchik unveiled an ambitious plan Thursday to transform one of [...]

04/28/98 They weren’t called the water wars for nothing. For years, local governments fought over water in Tampa Bay like lions of a drying pool on the Serengeti. On Monday, [...]

4/23/98 Gentlemen: I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your successful efforts to bring the West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority and Southwest Florida Water Management [...]

Excerpt from The Tampa Tribune, 1997 At 4 p.m. today the Hillsborough County Commission will discuss how it goes about the fundamental business of deciding who can build what and where. The board [...]

03/10/97 Hillsborough County Commissioner Ed Turanchik was bouncing along in a commuter rail train Sunday, his head wobbling about, when the train came upon a railroad crossing at Countryway [...]