Port Tampa Bay Renews Strategic Communications Contract with HCP Associates
TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 20, 2018) – Port Tampa Bay’s Board of Commissioners voted unanimously during the Port’s monthly business meeting on November 13 to exercise the first extension option of the three-year contract with HCP Associates, Inc. for strategic communications from November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019. “HCP provides exceptional depth and enormous talent […]
Hillsborough County Voters Pass Referendum to Strengthen Our Schools
On November 6, 2018, Hillsborough County Referendum No. 3 passed with 56.35 percent of residents voting ‘YES.’ The Strengthen Our Schools (SOS) Campaign was a political campaign initiated and funded by the labor union HCTA and public donations. The SOS campaign engaged with HCP Associates to promote and spread public awareness about the referendum. The […]
HCP Associates Completes PSTA Baseline Community Sentiment Study
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., (November 5, 2018) Pinellas County’s transit organization, The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA), engaged HCP Associates earlier this year to conduct a community sentiment study. The organization conducts rider surveys but despite rising ridership, a majority of Pinellas County citizens are untapped by their services. This realization promoted the organization to extend […]
HCP Associates Completes Second Biennial Resident and Worker Ybor District Study for the Ybor City Development Corporation
TAMPA, Fla., (October 31, 2018) HCP Associates, the marketing firm on record for the Ybor City Development Corporation (YCDC), a division of the City of Tampa’s Economic & Urban Development Department, completed the second biennial worker and resident study of the district. The objectives of the study were to: Collect perceived assets and opportunities for […]
HCP Associates Completes HART Baseline Community Sentiment Study
TAMPA, Fla. (October 29, 2018) – Earlier this year, Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Agency (HART) selected HCP Associates to conduct a baseline community sentiment study. HART wanted to understand how Hillsborough County residents perceive the organization and the job they are doing as the county’s transit authority. HCP closely evaluated the organization’s internal documents, along […]
HCP Associates Partners with Florida Institute of Government at USF to Conduct Sarasota Citizen Survey
SARASOTA, Fla. (September 13, 2018) Dr. Susan MacManus, a longtime political science professor at the University of South Florida retired in the Spring of 2018 after 47 years of service. MacManus has typically led the Sarasota County Citizens’ Opinion Survey, but HCP was suggested by MacManus’ longtime project associate Dr. Susan Schuler to take over […]
HCP Associates selected to conduct Consumer and Commercial Recycling Awareness Research
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (September 6, 2018)— Pinellas County approved a four-year agreement between the Pinellas County Department of Solid Waste and HCP Associates, Inc. for the provision of research services. This study has been ongoing since the late 1980’s. The results are used to prepare data such as recycling participation rates for Pinellas County’s annual […]
HCP Associates Selected to Conduct Community Sentiment Study for PSTA
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (August 9, 2018)— Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) has selected HCP Associates, Inc. to conduct the organization’s first community sentiment study. The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) was first established in the early 1900s as the St. Pete Municipal Transit System (SPMTS) with a streetcar line running from St. Petersburg to what […]
HCP Associates Selected to Conduct Community Sentiment Study for HART
TAMPA, Fla. (July 20, 2018)— Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART), Hillsborough County’s mass transit system, selected HCP Associates, Inc. to conduct the organization’s first community sentiment study. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) was created in October of 1979 to plan, finance, acquire, construct, operate and maintain mass transit facilities and supply transportation […]
HCP Associates Participates in Channelside Drive Design Project
TAMPA, Fla. (May 24, 2018) HCP’s Research Coordinator Madelin Ghomshe attended the first community meeting for the Channelside Drive Project. The meeting’s purpose was to engage the public and give people in the community a chance to suggest and weigh in on Channelside Drive improvements. Since 1975, the area has flourished from an industrial part […]