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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today.
› Orlando penthouse prices are soaring
Five years after local real-estate professionals wrote off the downtown Orlando condominium market as a dark-windowed wasteland of half-empty towers, urban lifestyles and downtown views have sparked bidding wars on upscale units.
› USF heart institute gets $2 million from Hillsborough County
Hoping to help make Tampa a hotbed for genomics research, Hillsborough County commissioners awarded up to $2 million for a new heart institute at the University of South Florida Wednesday.
The vote came a day after Gov. Rick Scott approved giving USF $6.9 million in state tax money toward the initial design of the USF Health Heart Institute.
› Feds sue to shutdown five South Florida tax preparers
Federal officials filed a lawsuit to shutdown five South Florida tax return preparers, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Among the accusations, the suspects increased tax refunds through false claims for the first-time-homebuyer tax credit, phony business expenses, false education expenses and earned income tax credits, officials said
› Major League Baseball's Hialeah youth hub still benched
Major League Baseball still pledges its commitment to the long-stalled Urban Youth Baseball Academy in Hialeah, says a league executive.
But big league baseball says it is currently awaiting a green light from the Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Development and for the land to be transferred from a private developer to the city.