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Orlando Region: The Arts
Can the arts be an economic driver? Recent achievements of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts offer ample evidence for an emphatic, yes.
Located in downtown Orlando, the...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Professional Services
By the numbers, the region’s legal and professional sectors are thriving.
With Orlando adding more than 1,000 jobs per week, those sectors are doing more than their fair share to...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Sports
The victories keep coming. Or, as Steve Hogan, CEO of Florida Citrus Sports, says, “We’re a big-league city; we have a lot of teams to root for.”
Indeed, Hogan, for...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Construction and Real Estate
Construction and Real Estate
With $10 billion-plus in infrastructure projects underway, there’s a lot of commercial construction happening in Orlando. The highlights, of course, are I-4 Ultimate’s highway remake and...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Workforce
“It’s a good problem to have,” says Pam Nabors, president and CEO of CareerSource Central Florida, in talking about the good-news/not-so-good-news scenario of the labor market across the Orlando region....
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando's Future Trajectory
“How do we keep the trajectory moving?”
That question comes from Tim Giuliani, president and CEO of the Orlando Economic Partnership, who quickly answers it for himself: “For us to...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Education
In explaining the dynamics behind perhaps the region’s most notable trend in education, Valencia College President Sandy Shugart offers a history lesson. With the Orlando region’s growth occurring relatively late...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Health Care and Medical Sciences
With its highest level of capital dollars being invested, the region’s health care industry is, well, quite healthy. Similarly, the sophistication and effectiveness of related medical science is reaching new...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Energy
“I’ve never seen any-thing like this. This is tremendous.”
Marc Hoenstine, director of economic development for Duke Energy in Florida, is talking about Duke’s
$4.6 billion grid-modernization program, involving enhancements...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Transportation
With $10 billion in current infrastructure work, the region’s theme of collaboration is perhaps most apparent — and most needed — in the transportation sector.
“Collaboration — it’s a treasure...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando Region: Tech Entrepreneurship
Listen to Jerry Ross, president of the Orlando-based National Entrepreneur Center, and it becomes clear he believes entrepreneurship has come of age across the region. “This is the place to...
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Published on 12/28/2018
Orlando: A Region United
With apologies to fans of college football experiencing poll fatigue, the Orlando region places at or near the top in numerous national rankings for economic vitality and quality of life....
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Published on 12/28/2018
Affordable housing, wages and transportation dominate Central Florida's challenges
Up to 35 launches in Florida are projected for 2019 with Spaceport seeing possible growth of 20,000 new workers in the next decade
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Published on 12/27/2018
L3 Technologies and Harris merge
The recently announced $15-billion merger between L3 Technologies and Harris, based in Melbourne, creates the sixth-largest defense contractor in the U.S. out of what had been two medium-sized players.
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Published on 11/28/2018
Setting the pace: New Disney contract raises wages to $15 an hour
Disney raises wages to $15 an hour.
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Published on 10/26/2018
Unlocking a new market
Orlando-based Voxx and UniKey team up on keyless tech for the auto industry.
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Published on 9/27/2018
At EASE: An app developed by doctors gives families peace of mind
Billed as “Snapchat from the operating room,” a new app created by three doctors at OrlandoHealth's Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children allows doctors and nurses to communicate with the families of their patients.
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Published on 8/28/2018
Daytona State College reaches out to homeless students
At Daytona State College, the student homeless population had grown from fewer than 30 students just before the 2008-09 recession to about 80...
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Published on 7/27/2018
Calculations: Orange County's string of GOP mayors may be coming to an end
Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, a Democrat, is getting a hand from central Florida's typically Republican-leaning business community in his bid for county mayor.
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Published on 6/28/2018
Getting a Lift: Mears turns to private equity investors to take on ride-sharing companies.
In 1939, Paul Mears Jr. bought three cars and started a taxi business. Over the next 80 years, he and his family built Orlando-based Mears Transportation...
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Published on 5/29/2018
A Brilliant Move: UCF leads a team at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory
A consortium led by the University of Central Florida won a five-year, $20.15-million contract to take over management of the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico...
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Published on 4/27/2018
Central Florida: In 2018, economic strengths and challenges, people to watch
Orlando and Orange County are making progress on economic development and arts and recreation.
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Published on 3/28/2018
Orlando Magic hopes to turn gamers into basketball fans
The Orlando Magic hopes to cash in on a new spin on video gaming.
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Published on 2/27/2018
Spotless: Researchers get an almost dust-free facility for creating smart sensors
Last April, a cadre of local political, business and education leaders gathered for the grand opening of the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center...
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Published on 1/26/2018
Succession: The search is on for UCF's next president
After a quarter-century on the job, University of Central Florida President John Hitt revealed in October that he will retire at the end of the 2017-18 school year.
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Published on 12/28/2017
