Carlton Fields sponsored the Tampa Downtown Partnership’s Third Annual Urban Excellence Awards, held at the St. Pete Times Forum in downtown Tampa on December 02, 2009.
The focus of the Urban Excellence Awards is to offer recognition to individuals, organizations, businesses, events and projects that have made significant contributions toward creating a unique, vibrant, and diverse downtown Tampa. Each of the winners has made a lasting, positive impact on the community.
The winners of the Third Annual Urban Excellence Awards are:
- The Arlington
- Healthy Together
- National Park(ing) Day 2009/SuperTest
- Picnic in the Park
- Tampa Bay History Center/Walbridge
- Tampa Bay Dragon Boat Institute
"It is exciting to have such an outstanding list of finalists from which to select the winners," stated Richard Linquanti, a partner at Carlton Fields, title sponsor of the awards program and chairman of the judges panel. "Downtown Tampa continues to develop into a true urban community and with this growth we see the best in creativity emerging from those who are right in the middle of all of the progress taking place in the city center" continued Linquanti.
The Tampa Downtown Partnership is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(6) organization that administers the Special Services District (SSD) Program. In addition to Tampa's Downtown Guides and Clean Team, the Tampa Downtown Partnership works to promote downtown through marketing, business development, transportation and beautification efforts. The Partnership has a long history of supporting downtown's revitalization, a broad constituency, and strong relationships with many community stakeholders. For more information about the Tampa Downtown Partnership, telephone (813) 221-3686 or visit the Partnership's web site at www.tampasdowntown.com.