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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Miami Herald to close travel and tourism custom publishing operation
HCP Media, a subsidiary of the Miami Herald Media Company, will be closing its doors on July 31. For 20 years, the custom publishing enterprise carved a niche in the travel and tourism market, producing award-winning publications for its clients. But like so many other companies that serve the travel and tourism industry, the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent shutdowns have had an outsized impact on HCP, said Aminda Marqués González, president and publisher of Miami Herald Media Company.
› Fort Lauderdale tells homeless they don’t have to leave hotel
The free hotel rooms for the homeless, paid for on the city dime, aren’t going away after all. A memo delivered Sunday with breakfast told dozens of homeless people they’d need to pack up and leave the hotel that had become a safe refuge in the middle of a pandemic. Checkout time would come Monday at 11 a.m.
› Financial institution to open ‘net zero’ branch
Achieva Credit Union is building its first-ever “net-zero” branch in Trinity, with completion expected in September. Net-zero buildings are structures that generate enough energy to cover their power consumption for the entire year.
› Sarasota-Bradenton passenger traffic increases in June
June was Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport’s busiest full month since COVID-19 started, but passenger traffic was still down 64% compared to the same month in 2019. In June, 52,845 passengers traveled through the airport, up 32% from May, when 39,988 passengers came through. Even though the number of positive coronavirus cases in Florida has increased significantly in recent weeks, traffic seems to be rebounding at the airport, President and CEO Rick Piccolo said.
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