Tampa Bay area philanthropists and doctors Kiran and Pallavi Patel have donated $1 million to Hillsborough Community College for its Allied Health Building and scholarships for students, the school announced Thursday night. The gift is the largest from an individual in the school’s 50-year history.

TAMPA (FOX 13) - With a mask and torch, Edgar Owens is building experience toward his next chapter as a welder. 

"I'm 30 years old. I needed to find something that I could do for a career that I could support myself and possibly a future family and that's why I chose this program," said Owens.

He's about to complete a one-year program at Hillsborough Community College.

Hillsborough Community College (HCC), a two-year public institution with five campuses in Hillsborough County, Tampa, is one of 28 community colleges in Florida. Currently, HCC ranks fifth in the nation in size as measured by full-time student enrollment (FTE) and seventh in the number of associate degrees awarded in all disciplines. It ranks 12th in the number of degrees awarded to minority students and 22nd in the number of associate degrees awarded to Black students.

TAMPA — At 2.6 million square feet, the new rental car center at Tampa International Airport is big — bigger, even, than International Plaza.

And it is just one of three airport projects scheduled to open to the public on Feb. 14. There’s a 1.4-mile-long SkyConnect people mover (dubbed the #LoveTrain, since it will debut on Valentine’s Day). And the main terminal will be emerging from three years of heavy construction.