TAMPA-The Florida State Fair Authority is to vote on Friday on a plan to issue an Invitation to Participate (ITP) to interested developers who may want to build on part of the 331-acre complex, home to the Florida State Fair and approximately 300 events each year.
If the board approves the proposal, the ITP would be issued on Nov. 4, according to a press release issued by the authority on Saturday. Current plans call for a pre-response conference and site visit held at the Florida State Fairgrounds on Nov. 22.
"It will be competitive, transparent and fair," Doyle Carlton III, chair of the Fair Authority board, said regarding the ITP process in a report in the Tampa Bay Times. "We want to hopefully be able to accomplish something that will bring in some revenue, but not anything that will compromise the core of the fair and its integrity."
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