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FLORIDA KEYS — Monroe County is allowing recreational vehicles to be used as temporary housing on properties damaged by Hurricane Irma.

MIAMI — The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami will open in the city’s Design District in December, in a 37,500-sq.-ft., threestory building. Bostonbased construction company Suffolk Construction will launch one of its Smart Lab incubators in the city; it will nurture construction-industry technologies and innovations. Startup Home61 has raised $5.3 million and will expand from Miami- Dade and Broward counties to Chicago, Houston and Phoenix. The company’s platform helps real estate agents schedule viewings, access notes and analytics, streamline the contracts process and automate other administrative work. Legaltechnology startup Court Buddy hit the $1-million mark in seed funding, making cofounder Kristina Jones one of only 14 African- American women in the country to raise $1 million or more in venture capital (her husband James Jones cofounded the company). Startup DermaSensor, which is developing a hand-held device for checking people’s skin for cancer, recently secured $2 million in financing; it has raised $4.45 million to date, and its device is in clinical trials in the U.S. and Europe. Maurice Ferré, founder and former CEO of Mako Surgical, founded DermaSensor in 2009. Automotive and motorsport digital platform Motorsport Network acquired German online motorsport media company Sport Media Group.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY — The county will become the 12th location served by microlending organization Grameen America, which provides loans to female entrepreneurs.

  • Lennar will pay up to $13,000 toward a home buyer’s student loan debt if the buyer gets the mortgage from Lennar’s Eagle Home Mortgage subsidiary.

NORTH MIAMI — Turnberry Associates and LeFrak secured a $101-million loan to begin construction of SoLeMia Miami, a 183- acre mixed-use development that has been in the works for years.

SOUTH MIAMI — Baptist Health South Florida completed its merger with Boynton Beachbased Bethesda Health, creating the largest health care system in south Florida.

  • Costa Farms (maker of CuraLeaf) opened its first medical marijuana store, in the Dadeland area; it is the second marijuana operation to open in Miami-Dade County.

Players

  • George Feldenkreis stepped down as executive chairman of clothing retailer Perry Ellis. Feldenkreis remains on its board. J. David Scheiner, former president of Macy’s Florida/ Puerto Rico, became the non-executive chairman.
  • Tom Wolber joined Crystal Cruises as CEO, replacing Edie Rodriguez.
  • Content management software company dotCMS hired Ralph Miller as CEO. He had been CEO of digital agency Authentic.
  • Gulliver Schools hired Clifton L. Kling in the newly created position of president and CEO; he had been president of Jackson Academy in Mississippi.

Innovation: On the Grid

The company Jason Doyle co-founded, Gridics (short for Grid Analytics) created an app that lets city planners, developers, architects and others visualize in a 3-D format what can be built on a specific parcel of land. Zonar.City uses a city’s zoning regulations — from setbacks to height limits — and can incorporate property records and other pertinent data. In October, the company used its software to generate 3-D images of six development sites in downtown Miami that meet Amazon’s real estate requirements for a second headquarters. This spring, the city of Miami signed a oneyear contract for Zonar.City. Subscriptions cost about $250 a month per user. -Doreen Hemlo

 

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