Florida Economic Yearbook - 2013
Northwest Florida
Bright spots: Tourism
and business growth
[Photo of Blue Wahoos by Leslie Taylor]
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North Central Florida
Bright spots:
University spinoffs, tech
startups and job growth
[Photo of Innovation Hub by Eric Zamora]
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Florida's Space Coast
Business is up for commercial aviation and tourism.
Photo: Daytona International Speedway
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Southeast Florida
This economic profile shows
tourism and is up while
call centers pull back.
Photo: B Ocean Fort Lauderdale,
a new luxury hotel
Tampa Bay
One economic issue facing
Tampa is the need to create
more access to its waterfront.
Northeast Florida
This year, Plum Creek,
in Columbia County, will
begin work on its inland port.
Southwest Florida
Retail, construction and
home building are all up.
[Photo of Lakewood Ranch by Mark Wemple]
More >Looking Up
The outlook for Florida's 67 counties is brighter than it has been in years. The economy hasn't returned to pre-recession levels, but improvement is steady if slow. Much of the credit can be attributed to a rebound in housing. From Jacksonville to Miami, home sales and prices are rising. Business activity is also picking up. Employee outsourcing company Landrum Professional Employer Services in Escambia County, for example, expanded twice last year, hospital supply chain LeeSar opened a 197,000-sq.-ft. regional service center in Fort Myers and Miami home builder Lennar saw a sixfold increase last year in profits. Tourism, which has been surging for two years, remains robust, and banks are becoming more open to lending.
Concerns remain, of course — the impact of the federal health care law on small business, uncertainty over what effects resumption of the payroll tax will have on spending, still relatively high unemployment and economic policies being debated in Congress and in the state Legislature.
As always, our Economic Yearbook coverage encompasses economic conditions in each county, with home sales numbers, jobs figures and demographics.
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