* The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area has been ranked #19 on Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com’s list of the country’s top 20 housing markets.
* TIA projections show that the airport, with about 21 million passengers this year, will be increasing that to nearly 39 million by 2042. That’s a 20-year hike of 83 percent.
* Art History made: That $25 million Dick Corbett gift to the Tampa Museum of Art is the largest private donation ever made to a public art museum and art education center in Florida.
* Water Street update: The Residences at the 26-story Tampa EDITION are now officially sold out—all 38 of the branded condos on the top floors of Tampa’s first 5-star hotel. Sale prices of the residences range from $2 million to $7.9 million.
* If the GOPsters take back the House, there’s a good chance that Sarasota Republican Vern Buchanan would become chairman of the impactful Ways and Means Committee. The last time a Tampa Bay region congressman chaired W&M was when Sam Gibbons held the gavel. Buchanan, as we know all too well, is no Sam Gibbons.