Tampa-L.A. Connection: Vinik Ala Leiweke Brothers

As Lightning owner Jeff Vinik looks to develop Channelside and other properties in the Channel District, he may be getting insights from "L.A. Live,'' the development project in LA that features the Staples Center.

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Tod Leiweke, Lightning owner Jeff Vinik’s top guy on the ground in Tampa Bay, is well connected to the experiences surrounding development of the Staples Center complex in Los Angeles.

Tod’s brother, Tim Leiweke, serves in a similar capacity for investor Philip Anschutz for the L.A. Live project.

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Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.
 

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