May 5, 2024
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Red Apple Real Estate of New York plans to feature historic 1924 clock at Residences of 400 Central when condo tower opens by 2025
In 1924, First National Bank attached a four-sided, ornate clock to the outside of its downtown St. Petersburg building at the corner of Fifth Street and Central Avenue.
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Published on 6/29/2022
High demand for industrial warehouse space in Polk County remains strong
Polk County's warehouse market benefits from its location.
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Published on 6/27/2022
South Florida employers demand more office space, adopt hybrid models to accommodate growth
Jeffrey Gordon is senior managing director at JLL. He says he's seeing the most demand for office space in Miami-Dade. He told FLORIDA TREND how JLL is managing the growth of the hybrid office and what his outlook is for the next year...
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Published on 6/23/2022
Florida's outgoing higher education leaders
Who’s Leaving
Kent Fuchs / UF
The University of Florida recently set up a 15-member search committee to find a replacement for Kent Fuchs, who announced in January that this...
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Published on 6/23/2022
Incoming presidents at Florida's institutions of higher learning
New Hires
Rhea Law / USF
When Will Weatherford, chair of USF’s board of trustees, asked Tampa Bay attorney Rhea Law to take the reins of USF as interim president...
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Published on 6/23/2022
Tech Equity Miami aims to invest at least $100 million to boost diversity
To boost diversity and inclusion in Miami-Dade's tech sector, JPMorgan Chase, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami Foundation and social impact venture studio aire ventures launched Tech Equity Miami, which aims to invest at least $100 million over five years in projects that advance internet connectivity, educational programs, resources for small businesses and tech employment opportunities for residents.
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Published on 6/22/2022
Digital Twin Marine creates virtual ship models with 360-degree and laser-scanning cameras
Nicky Bruger and her husband Tom worked side-by-side in the pandemic from their Fort Lauderdale home — she in construction management and he as a ship surveyor, akin to a home inspector for ships. One day, he saw her using a digital model of a job site to plan work. “He was like, ‘Why don't we do that for ships?' ”
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Published on 6/21/2022
Oviedo-based X-Batt found a way to recycle graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries to create new batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are a common power source for everything from laptops to cell phones and increasingly cars — but at the end of their useful lives, 95% of them end up landfills. Looking to change that, Oviedo-based X-Batt has found a way to recycle graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries to create new batteries. What's more, the graphite they recycle performs better than it worked in the original batteries.
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Published on 6/21/2022
UF grad Bryce Ballard creates way to prevent freezer burn with Ice Cream Guard
Last summer, Ocala native Bryce Ballard challenged himself to find a way to prevent freezer burn.
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Published on 6/21/2022
Businesses hope to score with college endorsements
A slew of businesses hopes to score with college endorsements.
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Published on 6/16/2022
Chemists focused on mental health start psychedelic-powered biotech firm
Jackie von Salm and Chris Witowski gave up six-figure salaries with stock options to launch Psilera, a Tampa-based biotechnology company specializing in developing psychedelic-inspired compounds and drug delivery systems for treating mental health disorders...
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Published on 6/16/2022
How a college injury put Brian Lamb on path to the Board of Governors
“How do you respond to that level of adversity that you haven't seen before? That really was a defining moment for me.”
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Published on 6/15/2022
Florida marina values on the rise
Integra Investments' purchase in September of Sea Isle Marina, one of the venues for the annual Miami boat show, highlights the wave of consolidation lifting marina values in Florida and nationally.
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Published on 6/14/2022
Amid population boom, Northeast Florida rapidly positions itself as transportation and logistics hub
Supply chains are moving closer to buyers as employers reassess office needs.
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Published on 6/9/2022
Florida University presidents are staying half as long as they used to
At Florida's public institutions, retirements, stress and the occasional controversy have contributed to the churn.
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Published on 6/9/2022
College athletes are finding the road to early riches is not what it seems
Now free to sign endorsement deals, college athletes are finding the road to early riches is not what it seems.
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Published on 6/8/2022
Florida Icon: Doretha Edgecomb
I grew up in Tampa in the Jim Crow era, so I lived in a very segregated world. Even as children, we understood that. Our schoolbooks were hand-me-downs from the white schools. Back then, you got a book and there was a page in the front where everybody who used that book would write their name. By the time we got them, there was no space to write your name.
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Published on 6/7/2022
Virgin Voyages' new palm tree design cruise terminal is open at PortMiami
Virgin Voyages' new cruise terminal is open at PortMiami. The terminal, part of a county project aimed at reducing emissions from vessels at berth, is home to the 2,770-passenger Scarlet Lady...
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Published on 5/31/2022
SpaceKids Global aims to steer kids into space careers
Sharon Hagle caught the space bug in 2007, when she and husband Marc took a zero-gravity flight at Kennedy Space Center to celebrate their wedding anniversary. A sales team from Virgin Galactic happened to be on the same flight and sold the Hagles on another experience — two tickets aboard one of Virgin's future suborbital space flights.
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Published on 5/31/2022
Elevate Waste Solutions saves commercial customers from incurring penalties
Elevate Waste Solutions saves commercial customers, such as restaurants, strip malls and apartment complexes, penalties imposed by large trash service companies when dumpsters are filled beyond capacity or contain large objects like mattresses or other bulky items...
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Published on 5/31/2022
UF's Gator MOMiter helps doctors to better communicate with mothers after they've given birth
To help physicians better communicate with patients, the UF Department of Medicine's Obstetrics and Gynecology Department has developed a phone app called Gator MOMiter...
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Published on 5/31/2022
Couple's nausea-easing candies are infused with natural oils - including CBD
Tracy Ernst got the idea for her nausea-easing candies after seeing a friend with cancer battle the side effects of chemotherapy. An avid cyclist, she was riding solo one day when an image of the friend came to mind. She says she later received a “divine message to make hard candies with essential oils.”
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Published on 5/31/2022
Scripps Safe plans to boost its workforce and is exploring a move to go public
Scripps Safe, a Naples company that provides security for narcotics storage, transportation and dispensing, plans to boost its workforce from six to 40 this year and is exploring a move to go public. The company makes safes, vaults, smart locks, inventory tracking software and also offers consulting services for the health care industry...
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Published on 5/31/2022
St. Lucie County gets a green light to reorganize its foreign trade zone
The foreign trade zone in St. Lucie County sat largely dormant for the 26 years since it was created, covering the Treasure Coast Airport near Fort Pierce and three nearby parcels. This year, the county received federal approval to reorganize the zone to allow expedited designation of sites for companies ready to conduct trade-zone activity such as manufacturing. The zone was expanded to include all of St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee counties...
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Published on 5/31/2022
Northwest Florida's four major airports all had record traffic in 2021
Airport Director Matt Coughlin attributes much of the growth to a jump in tourism brought on, in large part, by the airlines marketing Pensacola...
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Published on 5/31/2022
Business Beat - Week of May 3rd
