March 19, 2024

Mike Vogel

Florida Trend South Florida Editor • mvogel@floridatrend.com

Mike Vogel

Mike Vogel has reported and written about business in Florida for more than 20 years. He works from Broward County. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and, prior to joining Florida Trend in 1999, worked for newspapers in southeast Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Articles by Vogel:

Big Fish
Halfway down the Florida Keys, a bit before the city of Marathon, the busy Overseas Highway for a short stretch becomes a road amid the rustic. No gas stations or supermarkets, no souvenir shell stores, no sandal shops. The dense vegetation sometimes gives way to glimpses of the Florida Straits to the south or Florida Bay to the north.
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Building Blocks
Palm Springs in central Palm Beach County became the debut site for Renco USA's first housing complex — four buildings totaling 96 units — made with molded, interlocking blocks the company calls “Lego-like.” Miami-based Renco says its building method is cheaper, faster and 23 times stronger than concrete.
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AI, Captain
Years ago, serial entrepreneur Nathan Heber and his wife, dermatologist Jordana Herschthal, took a bareboat charter — where you rent a boat and crew it yourself — in the British Virgin Islands. “We were very underqualified. We were new sailors,” Heber recalls. But, he adds, “We had the time of our lives.”
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Florida Icon: Lee Brian Schrager
I always worked in restaurants. When I was 10, 11 years old, I used to bag Chinese takeout food, Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights, in a local popular Chinese restaurant. I worked in snack bars and movie theaters. I worked at Swensen's ice cream parlor, (and was a) valet car parker at a fine-dining restaurant. There was always something about the hospitality industry. The people in it are very special. And you know, I've always enjoyed wine and food.
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Problem Solver
As a kid in Argentina, Jose Navia recalls, he liked finding ways to fix broken things around the house. He also was exposed to the world of medicine. His mother was a midwife. His uncle was a cardiac surgeon.
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Mind-Body Healing
Memorial Cancer Institute in Pembroke Pines offers yoga, acupuncture and other mind-body techniques to improve the quality of life of patients with cancer.
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Southeast Florida's economic forecast for 2024
“FHG is a service maintenance company specializing in diesel engines for the superyacht industry, commercial shipping industry and government. We basically do inboard engine overhauls. We've built the company as a concierge complete engine service. It's the most expensive piece of equipment on board and the biggest liability. We do wastewater treatment systems, electrical, hydraulic, generators. A lot of it is supporting OEMs."
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Addressing Spiraling Premiums
Whether for home or auto, insurance is costly and getting costlier. Floridians pay triple the national average for home coverage. Renters also suffer through insurance costs passed on by landlords in the rent: Some 91% of monthly rent is a pass-through of maintenance, taxes and insurance, according to the Florida Apartment Association.
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Insurance Burdens
Justine Johnson, 35, moved into her three-bedroom, two-bath home in Vero Beach in 2020 through Habitat for Humanity. A single mother, she works in medical billing and has two children, ages 6 and 1.
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A Hospital Reborn
This month, Memorial Healthcare, the south Broward public health district, marks significant progress in its $88-million renovation of 70-year-old Memorial Regional Hospital, the system's flagship hospital.
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