Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal. A market that's not too hot, not too cold and it's in a safe range.

A project like the Trump Tower is really important for other reasons, too, because of the name and the brand and what it means for Tampa. When Donald came here last February and announced this with great fanfare and said they'd be breaking ground in a few weeks, they thought it would happen sooner than it did.

The combination of combining business trips with leisure so that business people can come and they can bring their families and if room rates are low and affordable then that what's makes Tampa-St. Pete a place to come and the reason it showed up on this survey.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.