Monday's Daily Pulse

› Pet Supermarket CEO makes stores fashionable [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
A South Florida businesswoman has landed on top of an annual ranking of Florida's women-owned companies. Diane Holtz, president of Pet Supermarket, said she redesigned the stores in the Sunrise-based pet store chain to be "what women want in shopping:" clean, colorful and featuring new products each week.

› Developer, architect turning missile silo into condos built to handle Armageddon [Florida Today]
If you’re wealthy and more than a little fearful about the end of the world, Larry Hall has the place for you. Hall, a Florida Tech graduate and former Harris Corp. manager who became a communications company entrepreneur, can set you up in an 1,800-square-foot condominium built in a decommissioned missile silo in the middle of the desolate Kansas prairie. Price: $2 million.

› PortMiami eyes commercial development, yacht marina [Miami Herald]
Officials envision rounding out the port’s cruise and cargo businesses with a fancy hotel, an office complex and an inner harbor for mega-yachts that would link the port with downtown’s Bayside and Museum Park.

› At Tampa Bay Partnership, high pay but debatable results [Tampa Tribune]
At a time when the economy has forced some local governments to slash their workforces, a publicly funded economic development group quietly has boosted its leader's compensation by more than $110,000 since 2006.

› Changes cut Disney's tax bill $1.8M over 2 years [Orlando Sentinel]
It was the summer of 2010 and profit margins were down at Walt Disney World. The giant resort had been forced to reduce prices amid a weak economy. Managers were searching for ways to trim costs. One place they found? Their property-tax bill.