April 18, 2024
Southwest
Denise Vidal hit the ground running as head of Lee County Electric Cooperative
When Denise Vidal became executive vice president and CEO of the Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) last year...
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Published on 10/28/2020
Private insurers are flooding the market
Tampa Bay has become a jumping-off point for analytics-driven flood insurance companies looking to go national.
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Published on 9/25/2020
PODS founder develops new 'fetchable storage' concept
When Pete Warhurst founded PODS in 1998, he hit on a portable-storage innovation that has since become commonplace.
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Published on 8/26/2020
Estero-based Hertz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Estero-based Hertz, which moved its headquarters to Florida six years ago on the promise of more than $12 million in state incentives...
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Published on 6/25/2020
How Southwest Florida businesses are coping during the coronavirus pandemic
3 Daughters Brewing CEO Mike Harting was an early voice in calling on the government to focus its stimulus efforts on small businesses
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Published on 5/27/2020
Zak Miller creates phone app to help count the homeless
When the founder and CEO of Hyperion Data learned how data designed to count the homeless population was collected...
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Published on 4/27/2020
Tampa General Hospital's new organ donation equipment
Tampa General Hospital has started using new equipment that enables donor hearts, lungs and livers to be transported at body temperature rather than chilled and transported in coolers.
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Published on 2/26/2020
Moffitt Cancer Center doctor asks Ringling students to use VR to aid patients
Dr. Sarah Hoffe, who heads Moffitt Cancer Center's gastrointestinal radiation oncology section, is well schooled in treating cancer...
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Published on 1/27/2020
Southwest Florida - Red tide, higher ed, transportation
Says Garrett Richter, President / CEO First Florida Integrity Bank, Naples: “Our outlook at First Florida Integrity Bank in 2020 is positive
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Published on 12/26/2019
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens $92-million expansion plan scrapped
An expansion plan that would have doubled Marie Selby Botanical Gardens' green space
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Published on 11/26/2019
Nanotechnology for disease diagnosis and treatment earns Florida Poly professor international award
Florida Polytechnic University professor Dr. Ajeet Kaushik is determined to make detecting and treating diseases easy, accessible, and precise through the use of nanomaterials for biosensing and medicine.
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Published on 11/15/2019
FGCU named best school in Florida for undergraduate entrepreneurship
Florida Gulf Coast University is the top college or university in Florida for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
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Published on 11/13/2019
Florida Aquarium reproduces coral in a lab
Scientists at Tampa's Florida Aquarium, after more than two years of
research, have successfully induced the spawning of pillar coral in a lab.
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Published on 10/25/2019
Morphogenesis is working on an anti-cancer vaccine
Tampa-based Morphogenesis is working on a vaccine that would identify cancer cells...
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Published on 9/25/2019
Technology Takes Hold
Lee County is home to tech companies like Testimonial Tree, a customer-review management platform, and Flightdocs, which offers maintenance tracking, inventory management, and flight operations software for the aviation industry.
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Published on 9/17/2019
In Good Company
Large, nationally known companies including Hertz, Chico's FAS, and Gartner play a big role in the local economy, but there are lots of other Lee County companies you should know about.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Love Where You Live
What often first attracts people to Lee County are its more than 50 miles of gorgeous beaches and pristine natural areas...
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Published on 9/17/2019
New and Noteworthy
A look at some of the projects popping up or planned for the area
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Published on 9/17/2019
Spreading the Health
Developments in medical care and technology, manufacturing and testing in Lee County are contributing to improvements in health and medicine.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Made in Lee County
Neil Kagan sees a lot of variety in his role as executive director of the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Learning Opportunities
When students graduate from a high school in the School District of Lee County, they should be ready for either college or a career.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Working Together
Many hands make light work. It's an old saying but one that also rings true today in Lee County, where organizations and individuals come together to make the area a better place to work and live.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Getting Around
Whether a company wants to ship products in and out of Southwest Florida or simply move its employees between work and home, Lee County makes it easy to do that.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Growth Opportunities
Growth is a popular conversation topic almost everywhere in Florida. But in Lee County, it's not just something to talk about.
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Published on 9/17/2019
Florida women in construction
To encourage women to seek jobs in the construction sector, Hillsborough Community College's SouthShore campus...
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Published on 8/26/2019
