April 18, 2024
Feature
Slowing Nearsightedness
If you're nearsighted and of a certain age, the vision care of your youth probably went like this: Someone noticed you squinting at school. Off you went to the eye doctor who likely told your parents it was genetic and had nothing to do with your TV time or reading. You got your first glasses and your eyes got progressively worse over the years. That meant stronger and stronger lenses until they stabilized as an adult.
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Published on 8/8/2023
Wake-up Call
Florida parents may want to start thinking about any scheduling adjustments they'll need to make when state law takes effect that requires later start times for schools.
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Published on 8/8/2023
Nurse Pipeline
Nursing shortages are taking a toll on all specialties, including pediatrics. In a conversation with FLORIDA TREND, a new nursing graduate and an assistant nursing professor shared their perspectives on the ongoing crisis and other trends in pediatric nursing and nurse education.
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Published on 8/8/2023
The Other End of the Needle
Getting one's blood drawn can be a stressful experience for children. Fatima Singletary, a phlebotomist at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, offers some perspective and advice.
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Published on 8/8/2023
Making Space
With the need for pediatric mental health care skyrocketing in Florida and the U.S., Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, which is part of Baptist Health, plans to add a 20-bed behavioral health and wellness unit slated for completion next spring.
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Published on 8/8/2023
Healing by Play
There was plenty of expensive, shiny new medical equipment on display when Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital opened its new expanded facility in Hollywood last fall, but the non-medical additions have proved to be at least as important. It's all part of “Joe D's” commitment to “the healing power of play,” says CEO Caitlin Stella.
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Published on 8/8/2023
Level Up
Brian Murphy knows the steep climb that startups face. He started ReliaQuest in 2007, nine months before the Great Recession, and didn't see a dime of outside investment for nearly a decade. In those early days, the Tampa-based company did general IT consulting work, mostly for government agencies. Over time, the company narrowed its focus to safeguarding digital client data and thwarting security threats.
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Published on 8/2/2023
Live, Work, Scoot
J'Yah Marshall first saw the downtown high-rise apartment in 2017 while driving into Tampa for a job interview with ReliaQuest. When he got the job, the Jacksonville native remembers thinking, “I know where I want to live.”
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Published on 8/2/2023
Island Plan Revival
After more than 20 years of stalled development, a planned project on Watson Island — a publicly owned enclave between downtown Miami and South Beach — is in the hands of developers known for making big projects happen. In a joint venture, BH3 Management and Merrimac Ventures purchased the 75-year ground lease for the vacant 10.8-acre parcel on the island from Flagstone Property Group.
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Published on 7/31/2023
The Full List: Best Companies To Work For In Florida
The 100 companies that made the cut in our fifteenth annual Best Companies to Work for rankings
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Published on 7/28/2023
Office Optional - The Evolving Workspace
The heads of Florida's Best Companies have mixed feelings about hybrid work arrangements, but most would agree the trend is here to stay.
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Published on 7/28/2023
All Hands on Deck
Leon County officials, concerned over closings and delays of Amazon's national network of distribution centers, are now more optimistic that the e-commerce giant's $200-million Tallahassee fulfillment center is on track to open later this year.
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Published on 7/27/2023
Floating Solar Farm
Duke Energy Florida is building its first floating solar array project in Bartow. The almost 1-megawatt solar array will feature more than 1,800 floating solar modules installed on a 1,200-acre cooling pond, which was once a phosphate mining pit. At peak output, the array could power nearly 100 local homes when it begins to operate as early as this month.
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Published on 7/26/2023
Saving Sea Cows
Brevard County has been at the center of a historic wave of manatee deaths in recent years: More than one-third of the 1,900 sea cows that died in Florida between 2021 and 2022 were recovered in Brevard County, where algae blooms in the Indian River Lagoon have decimated the seagrass that the mammals rely on for food.
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Published on 7/26/2023
Reading Between the Lines
Twenty years ago, St. Petersburg criminal defense attorney Lucas Fleming began noticing that many of his teenaged clients had something in common: They could barely read.
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Published on 7/26/2023
Voices of Leadership
“The creation and molding of FLORIDA TREND into a magazine we hope you will want and need has been an exhilarating experience. All of us who have been toiling away day and night shaping an incongruous mass of information into the first issue have worked sustained by the feeling that what we were doing was something meaningful. The pieces only had to be put in place and there it was! There was an industry in words and pictures. There was Florida industry on the move. We had not caused it; we had only stopped it for a moment and put it on paper.
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Published on 7/26/2023
Then & Now
Since 1958…
Florida has moved from the 10th most populous state to third today behind California and Texas.
The state’s population grew nearly 400%, from 4.5 million people to 22.3...
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Published on 7/25/2023
The Art of Play
Kevin Daniels and Jimi Dennison share a love of the “flow arts” — a mix of skills and creative expression. Think of juggling meets dance. In 2010, they founded Fun in Motion Toys to bring “movement-inspired” toys to the world.
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Published on 7/25/2023
Trending the Florida Dream
A Florida historian reflects on the state's promise and challenges over the past 65 years.
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Published on 7/25/2023
Dial-an-Expert, No Charge
Steven D. Rubin, a South Florida real estate attorney for more than four decades, jokes that he has a bright idea every 40 years. Several years back, he had the...
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Published on 7/21/2023
An Ounce of Prevention
Scott Westheimer, the new president of the Florida Bar, says education, mentoring and other proactive approaches can keep attorneys out of trouble.
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Published on 7/21/2023
Unlocking Potential
Florida State College of Jacksonville and The Arc Jacksonville, a local non-profit that serve and advocates for individuals with intellectual and development differences (IDD), have created a vocational program called Career Campus to help young adults with IDD transition to the workforce.
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Published on 7/20/2023
