May 19, 2024

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| 1/16/2017

› Human trafficking cases increase 50 percent in Florida
Officials say the number of human trafficking cases have increased more than 50 percent in the state from the previous year.

› Fast-growing Sanford airport to get its first hotel
Seminole County officials are touting plans for a 110-room hotel at the Orlando Sanford International Airport as another sign that the small — but fast-growing — airport is increasing in its importance to Central Florida tourism.

› How developers are redesigning Miami, 9 acres at a time
For decades, these three large city blocks in a prime location — straddling Miami Avenue and butting up against the Miami River and the Brickell financial district — lay inexplicably vacant. Now, in the seeming twinkling of an eye, they have been utterly transformed.

› First residences at Babcock Ranch to be completed in February
Master developer Kitson & Partners announced that furnished model homes by Stock Development, Fox Premier Builders, and Homes by Towne are on schedule for completion in mid- to late February at Babcock Ranch, east of Fort Myers.

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