January 2018 Contents

'First, I Give to Charity...'

Tampa entrepreneur Kiran Patel has made hundreds of millions of dollars growing and selling health care companies. Together with his wife, he has given more than $240 million over the years to support the arts, education and health care in Florida.

Community Portrait

Sponsored Report
Jacksonville & Northeast Florida

The region's economy is heading for transformative times.

Trendlines

Up Front
A new Jacksonville

It’s not the small, southern town you may recall.

Dining
Meat Markets

Great brunches, biergartens and steakhouses turn up in unexpected places.

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Al Hoffman Jr.

“There’s my father’s business card. Hoffman Poultry. My dad’s chicken shop. I used to kill chickens a lot and dress them. On the south side of Chicago — the wives would come in mostly — they’d pick out a live chicken or a turkey or a goose or a duck. We’d have to kill it, dress it and have it ready for them when they came back. I swore to myself: A: I would never do this kind of labor in my life, and B: I wanted to be a millionaire. Somehow I was going to make it.”

Of Counsel
Extending a Hand

Florida's Puerto Rican lawyers offer a way for the island's law students to continue studying.

Editor's Page
Public Servant

For Susan MacManus, it's all about the data — and not her opinion.