April 19, 2024
Southeast
Southeast Florida: In 2018, economic strengths and challenges, people to watch
Fort Lauderdale earns two thumbs down on public health and transportation but a thumbs up on downtown redevelopment.
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Published on 3/28/2018
Managing Custody With an App
A divorced dad wanted to make post-split responsibilities less contentious.
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Published on 2/27/2018
Sending a signal: Aluma's mobile towers and antennas travel the world
Decades ago, an antenna salesman asked Vero Beach-based Aluma Tower, which made towers for ham radio operators and TV antennas...
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Published on 1/26/2018
Sixt success: Fort Lauderdale lands Sixt headquarters
Fort Lauderdale lands the German rental car company's U.S. headquarters.
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Published on 12/28/2017
Florida's Treasure Coast blazes a spirit, wine and ales trail
Breweries, wineries and distilleries line a Treasure Coast trek. Neddy, “The Swimmer” in the John Cheever short story, crosses a suburban New York county by swimming from estate pool to pool, drinking booze as he goes.
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Published on 11/28/2017
Evolving: Fort Lauderdale's beach strip is remade again
Some 30 years ago, investor, restaurateur and bar owner A.J. Yaari bought into Fort Lauderdale beach.
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Published on 10/26/2017
Under water: Shrimp farmer faces a big problem
Aquaculture farmers may work with water instead of dirt, but that doesn't mean they don't have a tough row to hoe.
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Published on 9/28/2017
Rice paddy fields of Florida
The Everglades farming area, long synonymous with sugar cane and winter vegetables, has seen a rise in planting in an obscure niche: Rice paddies.
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Published on 8/28/2017
A tale of two schools
Palm Beach County boasts two schools founded and supported by local billionaires.
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Published on 7/26/2017
Urban sprawl: Urban living makes its way into the suburbs
“In a lot of ways, Sunrise is falling in that national trend of ‘surban' — urban but in the suburbs...”
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Published on 6/28/2017
Flight risk: President Trump's visits to Mar-a-Lago shifts air traffic
President Trump's frequent visits to Palm Beach and consequent federal restrictions on general aviation...
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Published on 5/24/2017
Long range plan: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission opens a shooting range
In 2004, Palm Beach County paid $60 million for 1,900-acre Mecca Farms, citrus grove land near Palm Beach Gardens, to house the future home of Scripps Florida and the biotech cluster of businesses that bio-boosters envisioned in recruiting Scripps.
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Published on 4/26/2017
Southeast Florida: A building boom
Fort Lauderdale's Brightline rail station is being complete; Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport is undergoing a $295-million expansion; and new luxury apartments, hotels and retailers are moving in.
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Published on 3/28/2017
Eye in the sky: Scott Adams offers airborne intelligence
Entrepreneur Scott Adams' new venture involves airborne intelligence.
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Published on 2/27/2017
‘Corrupt trough' – The North Broward Health District hits a low
n the last 18 months, the long-corrupt, long-dysfunctional, taxpayer-supported North Broward Health District hospital system, which now goes by the name Broward Health, set new marks for trouble.
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Published on 1/26/2017
Growing pains: With development has come protest
For a sign of the growth downtown Boca Raton has seen, look to the rise of local opposition.
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Published on 12/28/2016
iVox Solutions relocating to Port St. Lucie
Move fuels job growth
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Published on 12/12/2016
Building on tradition: Port St. Lucie hopes a renovated baseball stadium will be a hit
Port St. Lucie is hoping a renovated stadium will be a hit with baseball fans.
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Published on 11/28/2016
Getting a logistics boost in Jacksonville
The promise of a new 800,000-sq.-ft. Amazon facility is significant because in a city that touts itself as a logistics center...
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Published on 10/26/2016
Data storage facility proposed in Palm Beach County
In the age of the cloud, Netflix and online everything, much of the data generated and used in Florida resides in huge data centers in other states.
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Published on 10/26/2016
Missing the boat: A boat show venue finds itself grounded
As the annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show begins in November, a plan to beef up one of the show's key venues, the Bahia Mar Resort Hotel & Yachting Center, has hit a roadblock.
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Published on 9/28/2016
Bloom blame in the Indian River Lagoon
This year's devastating algal bloom in the Indian River Lagoon has renewed interest in a hypothesis being pursued by scientists in Florida that a toxin produced by the bloom algae may be an environmental cause of ALS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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Published on 8/26/2016
Development bounces back in southeast Florida
Development in Hallandale is returning in force.
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Published on 7/27/2016
Flight of ambition: St. Lucie has big plans for its small airport
The St. Lucie County-owned airport has more land than the economic dynamos of Miami International, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood and Palm Beach International to the south.
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Published on 6/28/2016
Dead center: Port St. Lucie City Center comes up empty
Port St. Lucie City city leaders and residents had been told to expect a $380-million apartment, hotel, retail and office project to rise on the mostly vacant land by the Port St. Lucie City Center.
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Published on 4/27/2016
