April 24, 2024
Feature
Pulling Rank
While it's no surprise that Miami tops the list of the best U.S. cities for foreign businesses in the inaugural Investing in America ranking from the Financial Times and Nikkei, it may be surprising to learn that Jacksonville ranked No. 8, three spots higher than Tampa but a few notches below Orlando at No. 2.
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Published on 3/1/2023
Red Carpet for Foreign Companies
“Pursuing foreign direct investment is a very important strategy in our efforts to attract new industries and diversify our economy here in Northwest Florida. If you're just concentrating on U.S. companies, you are competing against every other city and county economic development agency. And while that competition is fine, and we will always continue to do that, when you open it up to a worldview perspective, it really allows us to attract additional foreign capital investment that creates good, high-paying jobs.”
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Published on 3/1/2023
A Piece of Uruguay in Florida
There are nearly 4,400 miles and 114 years separating the riverside wine estate that Jerónimo Cantón's family founded in Uruguay at the turn of the 20th century and the restaurant and gourmet food company he now manages in South Florida, but time and distance have a way of collapsing inside the doors of Narbona.
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Published on 3/1/2023
It takes a community
Maynard Evans High School wasn't always a troubled school. When it first opened in the 1950s in Pine Hills — then a bedroom community of Orlando for workers at Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) — it was considered one of the best in Orange County. But by the mid-2000s, crime and poverty had risen in Pine Hills, and Evans was a shell of its former self. The school building was riddled with peeling paint, creeping mildew and other signs of decay. It had some of the worst dropout, suspension and graduation rates in Central Florida.
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Published on 3/1/2023
Drones to the Rescue
University of West Florida professor Hakki Erhan Sevil has developed a novel “swarm navigation” model for small drones to assist response teams in emergency situations.
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Published on 2/28/2023
Health Care House Calls
The Seminole County Fire Department is using paramedics to help fill health care gaps.
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Published on 2/28/2023
Power Walk
In the event of a power failure, only about half of Tampa's traffic lights are equipped with backup batteries that can keep the signals operating without a generator for about eight hours.
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Published on 2/28/2023
Virtually Recovered
Treatment for cardiac conditions doesn't end when a surgery or a procedure is complete. For most patients, rehabilitation is as important as the original intervention — yet nationwide, only a portion of the cardiac patients who need that service can access it.
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Published on 2/28/2023
Time and Money Saver
Over the past couple of decades, cardiac CT scans have become a workhorse for evaluating people with chest pain.
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Published on 2/28/2023
Last Resort
When patients undergo radiation treatments for cancer, oncologists take great care to spare the heart from radiation exposure because of the cardio-toxic effects it can have on the organ. But doctors at Orlando Health recently used targeted radiation therapy to treat a dangerous arrhythmia in one patient's heart.
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Published on 2/28/2023
Water Wise
Kenneth D. Colen, president and developer of On Top of the World Communities in Ocala, is building out a 13,000-acre master-planned community geared to adults 55 and older. But he is worried about water.
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Published on 2/24/2023
Solar Pilot
Hurricane Ian put Florida's energy grid to the test last year. When the storm snuffed out electricity to approximately 2.7 million Floridians, a handful of communities with alternate power sources shone in the darkness.
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Published on 2/22/2023
Med School at JU
Jacksonville University and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) have partnered to establish LECOM at Jacksonville University. LECOM plans to have an inaugural class of about 75 students in 2026 who will work toward a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree.
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Published on 2/22/2023
'Smart' Ponds
As Category 4 Hurricane Ian approached in late September, a “smart” retention pond on S.R. 45 near Port Tampa Bay captured 175,000 cubic feet of the polluted flow before it hit Tampa Bay.
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Published on 2/22/2023
Second Shot
World Woods might not have been Florida's most well-known golf destination, but many devout golfers considered the two Tom Fazio-designed courses in Hernando County some of the state's most beautiful.
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Published on 2/22/2023
Paddleboarding for a Cause
At age 4 in 2011, Piper Suits was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder affecting the lungs and other organs.
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Published on 2/21/2023
Change of Heart
Heart transplants are a last option for patients with end-stage heart failure, most often due to a heart that has become weaker over time, a blockage or a congenital cause. The number of people who need a heart transplant is increasing as those with heart failure live longer as a result of better treatment options, says Parag C. Patel, division chair of heart failure and transplantation at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.
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Published on 2/20/2023
Progress Report
When Adam de Jong went to college, he initially thought he might choose a career in sports medicine. It took a class in human anatomy to change his mind.
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Published on 2/20/2023
Cancer and Cardiac
Hussein Rayatzadeh is a physician specializing in cardiology and cardio-oncology at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. He spoke with FLORIDA TREND about the challenges associated with treating cancer patients who also suffer from heart ailments. He gained expertise in cardio-oncology during a fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
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Published on 2/20/2023
Do's and Don'ts
Health care does amazing things nowadays in treating heart ailments. But, says Jerry Estep, chair of the cardiology department at Cleveland Clinic Florida, the best approach is to avoid problems in the first place. “It all starts with prevention,” he says.
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Published on 2/17/2023
Cannabis Connection
Miami cardiologist Claudia Martinez's research into heart health in people with HIV is getting a $2.3-million boost thanks to a federal grant that will allow her to assess real-world risks and benefits of cannabis use in a vulnerable population.
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Published on 2/16/2023
Prime Location: Miami
“Miami has arrived as a gateway primary market,” says New York-based Lauren Hochfelder, co-CEO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing and its $55-billion portfolio. Speaking at the Urban Land Institute's Florida Summit in Miami in December, she also said Miami's Class A trophy office buildings are drawing interest because office utilization — an indication of how many people have returned to their pre-COVID workplaces and a reflection of office market health — is about 80% to 86% in Miami but only half that in New York and San Francisco.
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Published on 2/15/2023
Different Strokes
This spring in Delray Beach, Greg Bartoli and Tiger Woods will open their latest PopStroke golf entertainment location, their fifth in Florida. And more are on the way.
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Published on 2/15/2023
In the Hot Seat
Miami-Dade was the first community in the world to appoint a chief heat officer in 2021 when Harvard-educated environmental scientist Jane Gilbert accepted the role.
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Published on 2/14/2023
A Life Raft for Women
Sipra Laddha and Shama Rathi are psychiatrists, but when each of them struggled with mental health issues during or after their pregnancies, even they had trouble finding the professional help they needed.
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Published on 2/12/2023
