Florida Design Consultants, Inc. (FDC) was a proud sponsor of the Fishing for Wishes fishing tournament held on May 10, 2019.

The tournament put on by Ripa and Associates, LLC (Ripa) benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation. FDC applauds both Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Ripa for the life changing support this event provides local families.

FDC was fortunate having finished first place in the red fish competition.

FDC Anglers and Captain:

Matt Barksdale, Bill Foote, Phil Langston, and Captain Chuck Fesler.

Florida design consultants is pleased to announce we will be operating out of our new location Monday April 29, 2019. In order to better serve our clients we have combined our Tampa and New Port Richey office to a centralized location in Pasco County. Our new office is located at 20525 Amberfield Dr. Land O’ Lakes FL 34638

Rohland Bryant, community outreach liaison for Pinellas Technical College, and Faye Watson, industry liaison, both of St.Petersburg, are starting a new surveying field technician training program at Pinellas Technical College, St. Petersburg. They’re partnering with Tampa Bay surveying businesses to provide instructors, equipment and job opportunities for graduates of the program. Read full article here.

FDC is proud to have teamed with Dr. Patel on the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach resort, the largest development ever built on Clearwater Beach. FDC has a long history of engineering, surveying and planning on Clearwater Beach having performed our services on Sandpearl, Belle Harbour, Mandalay Beach Club and now the Wyndham Grand. Read full article here.

Florida Design Consultants attended the PEDC Economic Forecast Luncheon on February 5^th 2016 at the Tampa Bay Golf and Country Club in San Antonio, FL.  The featured guest speaker this year was Dr. Sean Snaith, Ph.D./Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Sean Snath is a nationally recognized economist in the field of business and economic forecasting, he has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Economist and has appeared on CNBC and Fox Business Network.

During Dr. Snaith’s presentation, he addressed the current economic conditions and reflected on the policies/regulations that have and will be implemented in the years ahead.  He shared his outlook for Pasco County as well as the Tampa Bay region, the State of Florida, and the nation as a whole. A few of his statements from the Pasco Economic Development function are:

• “We are closer to the next recession than further from the last,” Snaith said at a Jan. 29 Dean’s Speaker Series hosted by the University of Central Florida College of Business. “I’m 100 percent sure there will be another. I’m just not 100 percent sure of when.”

• Snaith said when consumer spending habits shift is an indicator that a recession may be near. “When we go back in our shells, that’s when we’ll get nervous for the next recession,” he said. Consumer spending has been the driving force behind the recovery from the national economic recession that ended in 2009. A lack of consumer spending combined with other current economic challenges can signal trouble.

• On another note, Snaith said Florida’s housing market is seeing a dramatic decrease in the number of foreclosures and short sales, resulting in double-digit price appreciation. Also, the state’s unemployment rate is at 5 percent, down from 6 percent in October 2014. At the end of 2015, 21,000 new payroll jobs were added in Florida.

Dr. Sean Snaith, Ph.D. –Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness at the University of Central Florida.