Why an investor will renovate a St. Petersburg complex to honor bitcoin’s creator – Tampa Bay Times

Pete apartment complexes for more than $5 million on March 31, according to Skytian Capital’s founder San Eng.

There’s a growing need for flexible and affordable housing that caters to people with unconventional working hours, like artists, medical professionals and tech entrepreneurs, Eng said in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times.

After many years of research in North America and overseas in terms of where we want to invest in again, we fell in love with Florida and specifically Tampa and St.

It can be very attractive for a nurse that’s on a three-month contract or just imagine a team of founders that are starting a company here in Tampa, and might stay here two or three months but don’t want to stay in a hotel and want to be close to downtown.

It’s a very interesting emerging mix because even in Airbnb, more reservations are now longer term as opposed to just touristy two or three days.

As leases expire, we may change the kitchen, upgrade with a washer and dryer appliances or add the amenities like dog parks or to change the courtyard.

So we will be more affordable just because the assets are a bit older.

We’re not going to be a one-star hotel, but what we see is a niche where there’s so many creatives here or health care workers that are eco conscious and tech savvy travelers that wants something different right.

Bitcoin was created in the wake of the Lehman Financial Crisis as a sort of anti-Wall Street, anti-establishment because the belief was that centralized powers were screwing the little guys.

The blockchain is massive and it’s only getting bigger, so we wanted to honor the creator of blockchain because he or she or they, we don’t know if Satoshi is a person or a group of people or whether they’re a man, woman, Black, white or Asian.

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