Commissioner Murman quoted in this Business Observer article on Tampa Tank expansion:
By: Business Observer
February 02, 2015
TAMPA — Customized steel company Tampa Tank Inc. & Florida Structural Steel is investing more than $18 million in an expansion that is expected to add more than 100 jobs to the Tampa Bay area.
Those positions, which the company says will pay nearly 150% of the state’s average wage, will include 24 at its Ybor City headquarters and another 84 at a refurbished manufacturing facility it’s leasing in Gibsonton’s Port Redwing.
The new port, part of land acquired by the Port of Tampa in 2012, will be home to a new 120,000-square-foot building the company is planning to build there. Tampa Tank also will retrofit its existing 40,000-square-foot building in Ybor.
“Manufacturing jobs are vitally important to Hillsborough County, so the announcement of Tampa Tank’s expansion is an exciting and important milestone for our community,” Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandy Murman said, in a release.
The project was put together through a partnership between the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp., and city and county government officials. That partnership offered Tampa Tank with a package of state and loan incentives totaling a little more than $2 million.
The incentives prevented Tampa Tank from looking elsewhere for expansion, according to a release, including a possible site in The Bahamas.
Tampa Tank was founded in 1953, providing customized design, repair and fabrication of welded steel products to customers nationally and globally. It acquired Florida Structural Steel in 1984.
