Blame it on Tampa's status as a frontier town of the New South.
People drop in as if by parachute, unpack their suitcases, start passing out business cards.
They've got at least the look of money, the mouth of a deal-doer, they know people who know people. Sometimes this works. It certainly did for George Steinbrenner. For a while, until the bottom fell out, it worked out for Ken Good, who launched Tampa Palms, the sprawl of newness that is constantly moving north the psychological border of Tampa. David Bekhor may have been one of those, a guy in a parachute.