July 2025 Contents
Inside Florida Trend's print and digital issue
FEATURES
Cybersecurity
The state’s affordable housing crisis is spurring increased demand for on-campus housing. Some schools are building more to help bridge the gap.
Co-workers' votes helped propel Wu to win ThreatLocker’s annual car giveaway
AI is helping hackers target more small to mid-sized businesses that might have felt more immune to ransomware and other attacks.
USF is taking the rare step of creating a new college to meet workforce demand for cybersecurity professionals.
NextGen
Concrete Vision
A mentor steered Oscar Morejon toward a career in construction management. Today, he’s running his own company
Economic Backbone
Florida Credit Unions
Passion Plays
Credit unions have started sponsoring sports teams to market themselves.
A number of Florida banks are being acquired by large, powerful credit unions out of Michigan.
A credit union CEO talks about AI, state laws and the Panhandle housing boom.
A credit union on the Space Coast is adopting a bilingual strategy in order to better serve its Spanish-speaking members.
Headquartered in Pensacola, PenAir is soaring across state lines with an aggressive expansion plan.
Leadership Insights
Custom Content
Florida Foundations
Foundations, funders and the nonprofits and causes they support are aligning their operating models with business-oriented strategies to meet the state’s growing needs.
Trendlines
Up Front
Delivering above expectations
Highlighting the journalistic creativity delivered each month by our entire editorial team.
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Tony Argiz
"The community is what it’s all about, and you’ve got to plant seeds and help that community grow. It’s not just about you and your family. You’ve got to give back somehow."
Editor's Page
Driving change
"Why not change the world?” is more than a mantra for Jason Eichenholz — it’s a way of life.
Longevity
Florida’s booming anti-aging industry promises vitality, but experts warn consumers to tread carefully among treatments — some of which may border on fiction.
Florida’s graying population, boosted by an influx of retirees, is sparking a surge in senior-focused businesses.
Most seniors prefer to stay in their own homes as they grow older.
Senior relocations can be fraught with stress..
Development of senior living facilities plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Naples company is reinventing mobility with a walker that’s like ‘parallel bars on the go.’
CarePredict’s remote-sensing technology keeps tabs on seniors’ health.
Profile
The Fluoride Skeptic
Meet Ashley Malin, the University of Florida researcher at the center of Florida’s fluoride fight.
Around the State
Statewide
Call to the Bar
Roughly 3,000 would-be barristers will descend on the Tampa Convention Center on July 29-30 for the Florida Bar Exam.
Miami-Dade
Serious Hospitality
A Hospitality Executive Education program aims to help industry leaders understand everything from AI to team building to beverage management.
Southeast
Air Apparent
Carrier marked its fifth year as a standalone public company and fifth year on the NYSE.
Southwest
Healing Hub
NCH and Hospital for Special Surgery opened their joint $140-million, 100,000-sq.-ft. orthopedic complex.
Central
Orlando’s Offices
How’s the office leasing market in metro Orlando doing?
Northeast
Taking Flight
University of North Florida is adding an esports arena called The Flight Deck.
Northwest
Catching the Wave
UWF is launching a new academic program through an arrangement with the Port of Pensacola.