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What you need to know about Florida today

| 5/15/2017

› Retirees on St. Pete Beach have big plans for the medical marijuana industry
While Florida politicians have butted heads over how to regulate the growing medical marijuana industry this year, Tom Murphy and Michael Welch have been busy working behind the scenes to try to ensure their company gets a piece of it.

› Broward County poised for biggest new hotel boom in years
A boom in new hotels suggests happy days are here again for tourism. About a dozen hotels will open in Broward this year — the biggest surge in the county in the past decade.

› Seminole sports complex celebrates first year with influx of visitors
When Seminole opened its $27 million sports mega-complex a year ago last week, county leaders touted it as a facility that would fill local hotel rooms with tourists and pump millions of dollars into the local economy.

› Miami Worldcenter’s fully capitalized and SLS Lux Brickell is close to sold out
Amid a slumping real estate market, developers of two major luxury projects in Miami’s urban core told a gathering of real estate professionals that construction timelines on their developments are moving ahead at full steam.

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