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Southeast Florida Business Briefs - Aug. 2005
BOYNTON BEACH -- The Agency for Health Care Administration has approved Bethesda Memorial Hospital's plans to build an $82-million hospital west of its Boynton Beach facility.
BROWARD COUNTY -- School district construction officials are considering installing high-tech scanners in some classrooms. The devices would scan students' palms or thumbs before they were admitted to class. The proposal for one Fort Lauderdale alternative school for students with behavior problems also includes video cameras, speakers and wireless microphones. An appeals court has ruled against developer R. Donahue Peebles in his effort to recover $4.3 million in expenses related to a doomed contract to build an $81-million convention center hotel. The deal fell apart in 2001 after Wyndham International pulled out.
About 60% of Broward County employers say they have plans to hire additional workers in the third quarter, according to a survey by staff services company Manpower Inc., an increase of 6% over employers'
second-quarter plans.
County commissioners have agreed to spend $40,000 to relocate a historic lighthouse keeper's cottage that was facing demolition as part of a private resort's renovation plans. The cottage has been used as a clubhouse by the resort since 1936. HOLLYWOOD -- A developer's proposal for a new beachfront Marriott resort hotel has swelled from 14 stories and 264 rooms to 18 stories and 290 rooms.
JUPITER -- Council members have approved a 172-home luxury development on 105 acres between I-95 and Indiantown Road.
LAKE WORTH -- City officials are preparing to test a reverse-osmosis water treatment facility as part of plans for a new $22-million plant expected to be online in two years. The new plant will allow the city to meet its rapidly expanding water needs by pumping from the deeper sources of the Floridan Aquifer. PALM BEACH COUNTY -- A $19,000 grant funded by the state's sea turtle specialty license plate is funding a yearlong study of the area's endangered and threatened sea turtle populations.
A citrus canker quarantine area has grown to take in trees in Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Atlantis, Lake Park, north West Palm Beach and areas of Palm Beach Gardens.
School Superintendent Art Johnson has added a military leadership guidebook to the list of required reading for school principals. Former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki is among the authors of "Be -- Know -- Do: Leadership the Army Way."
PALM BEACH GARDENS -- City officials concerned about traffic impact related to the development of the Scripps Research Institute say local government officials -- and not just Palm Beach County -- should have a role in the decision-making process as well.
POMPANO BEACH -- City commissioners have exercised their right to negotiate themselves a better cut of slot machine revenue from a local harness track. The deal calls for the city to get an additional $250,000 a year from slot revenue generated at the Pompano Park harness track. The money is in addition to the 1.7% negotiated by the county for revenue up to $250 million.
PORT EVERGLADES -- Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed a bill that would have allowed Broward County officials to create a $23,500 expense account for luring new business to the port.
PORT ST. LUCIE -- A former economic development consultant to the Broward County city of Miramar, Glenn D. Vann, has been hired as the city's new Community Redevelopment Agency director, replacing Greg Oravec, who resigned in April.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY -- The Agency for Health Care Administration denied Martin Memorial Hospital's plans for an 80-bed facility in western Port St. Lucie. The proposal drew opposition from two HCA-owned hospitals.
