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Come Monday, you can own the home of pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan when 1040 Eldorado Ave. in Clearwater officially lists for $10.98 million.

The star’s longtime beachfront residence features five bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathooms and a huge, covered outdoor area with panoramic views of the Gulf and a heated pool and spa.

Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, lived in the home until his death in July at age 71. Hogan purchased the house in 2012 for $3.3 million, downsizing from a 12,000-square-foot Belleair mansion on the Intracoastal Waterway that he sold for $6.2 million.

The 5,400-square-foot home featuring a striking dual staircase entry in front is being listed by Martha Thorn of the Thorn Collection and Coldwell Banker Realty, a news release stated.

The home was built in 2009 and features teak, marble and natural stone floors plus a private elevator.

Hogan’s family has hired a law firm to investigate whether the hospitals and doctors that treated the famed pro wrestler before his death committed medical malpractice. read more

By Ariana Perez-Castells, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Workers’ profiles on job posting websites often feature general abilities, like leadership, communication, teamwork, and problem-solving, a recent report from the Wharton School says. But they’re not highlighting the “specialized, execution-oriented skills,” employers are seeking. That’s created a “skills mismatch economy.”

“People are not representing their skills in a way that’s necessarily resonating with the skills that employers want,” said Eric Bradlow, the vice dean of artificial intelligence and analytics at the Wharton School, who co-authored the report. read more

As part of the Orlando Sentinel’s 150th birthday, on the first Sunday of each month, we will report on a topic that helped shape the Central Florida of today and how we covered that topic. This month, we cover tourism and theme parks.

Before there were thrill rides, costumed characters, nightly fireworks spectaculars and millions of out-of-towners, Central Florida had a very big draw for tourists: The sun.

The warmth and natural beauty of the Sunshine State drew Northerners seeking seasonal escapes and setting the table for Central Florida’s tourism industry to bloom. Decades later, Walt Disney’s strategic, secretive land purchases would ignite the transformation of Orlando into the “theme park capital of the world.”

Today, more than 75 million tourists travel to Orlando each year, filling more than 130,000 hotel rooms in the area and spending $60 billion at theme parks and other attractions. The hospitality industry employs more than 290,000 people. Tourists’ extended visits fill Orlando International Airport with arrivals and departures, jam roads with rental cars and fill local coffers with more than $380 million in tourism-tax dollars, some of which are used through Visit Orlando to entice even more people to come to Central Florida. read more

Becoming a tourism mecca was years in the making. It started with nature-driven attractions and was jump-started by Walt Disney. Along the way have been alligators, mermaids, Mickey Mouse, Elvis, dinner theaters, Dolly Parton, the Holy Land and assorted entrepreneurs. Here are some industry highlights from the past 150 years.

• 1878: Silver Springs (and its glass-bottom boats) becomes the first commercial tourist attraction in Florida.

• 1910: Joyland, featuring swimming, waterslides, a dance hall, dock-and-picnic area, opens on Lake Ivanhoe in what would become the College Park neighborhood of Orlando.

• 1920s: A network of roads known as Dixie Highway connects Orlando and other Florida towns with northern cities.

• 1920: Hand Tourist Camp welcomes snowbirds and other visitors on 20 acres between Central and East South streets in downtown Orlando.

• 1923: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens opens. It moved to its current location in Sanford in July 1975.

• April 1923: Orlando’s Tinker Field is dedicated. It played host to minor-league baseball for decades. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech from the pitcher’s mound. read more