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Business Florida: Your 2021 Florida opportunity guide
Take a lesson from 500 years’ worth of dreamers and doers who staked their fortunes and futures on Florida. They found success here; you can too. Florida has so much to offer your company — the right business climate, the right infrastructure, the right proximity to domestic and international markets, the right workforce, the right quality of life. More from Florida Trend.
Florida's vote count already close to matching 2016 total as early voting comes to a close
More than 8.9 million Floridians voted by Monday – almost matching the number who cast ballots in the 2016 presidential race – as the toss-up contest between President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden entered its closing days. The last day of early voting in Florida was Sunday, with “Souls to the Polls” events at churches in many major cities aimed at driving up Black voter turnout. Jill Biden made an appearance at one of these events in Tallahassee, while Trump held a late-night rally at Miami-Opa-Locka Executive Airport. More from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Norwegian Cruise Line, sister lines cancel all sailings through 2020
While the CDC has opened a door for cruise lines to make it back to sailing, the timetable to turn that around is undetermined, and the parent company of Norwegian Cruise Line canceled all planned sailings until 2021. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., which also owns Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, announced Monday it was continuing its extension of halted service through Dec. 31 across all of its brands. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
New Amazon facility at AllianceFlorida could create 260 jobs
Amazon.com Inc.’s new facility planned at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center could create about 260 jobs, according to a JEA document. The 278,237-square-foot facility is designed on Parcel F at southwest Waterworks Street and POW-MIA Memorial Parkway in the West Jacksonville business park. It is the 10th identified Amazon facility in Northeast Florida. More from the Jacksonville Daily Record.
As John’s Pass fills with sand, there’s a bureaucratic tangle on who should fix it
When Capt. Dylan Hubbard was a kid in the 1990s, he could jump off the boardwalk of his family’s marina into the waters of John’s Pass below. But gradually over the past six decades, sand from the updrift beaches has been pushed south, hooking around the heel of the barrier island and settling along the north side of the John’s Pass channel. It has created an unwanted beach now butting up against the boat dock, narrowing the channel. More from the Tampa Bay Times.
Business Profile
Orchid Envy
Owner of Orchid Envy, a shop that sells a wide variety of artfully presented flowering epiphytes, Natalee McKinney is devoting a small but growing niche of her store to python hide products: boots, belt buckles, coin holders, passport sleeves, gun grips, dog collars, luggage tags, executive pens, eyeglass cases, and just about anything else you can create with more conventional forms of leather.
» More from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Out of the Box
Gulf Breeze man builds realistic pirate ship out of Hurricane Sally debris
Sometimes when life gives you debris, you build a lifelike pirate ship in your front yard. That was the thinking for one Gulf Breeze resident anyway, who during the course of the past month built a 17-foot-long, 10-foot-tall pirate ship using mostly weathered wood fencing knocked loose by Hurricane Sally. Real estate broker John Rebolledo dreamed of becoming an architect as a kid, and although life led him in another direction, he got to channel that childhood passion in October.
» Read more from the Pensacola News Journal and the AP.
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