Florida Business Newsmakers in 2011

Florida boasts the second most shoreline miles in the nation, and the state is opening a new Office to look into how businesses here can most profitably — and healthily — capitalize on its ocean resources.

Catalyst Healthcare Real Estate, a Pensacola-based investment firm, recently announced a partnership with Florida State University to develop an FSU Football Operations Facility.

The event, in addition to a special 20th anniversary presentation that highlights the journey of how the EDC of Sarasota County came to be and where the organization is headed.

Orlando-based Red Lobster Hospitality LLC — once a Darden restaurant and founded in Lakeland in 1968 by Bill Darden — is in financial trouble.

The skies over Palm Beach International Airport are busier than ever, but it’s on the ground where changes may be most evident in the future.