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Politics & Law
Time For Caution
Office Market Lenders remain wary because leasing rates remain too low to justify new construction. By the end of 1996, South Florida's first speculative office tower since the recession of...
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Published on 8/1/1996
Bright Prospects
Hospitality Market In terms of sheer numbers of hotel rooms, Florida has three of the nation's top 20 markets. Business should continue strong for the next few years. Florida's hotel...
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Published on 8/1/1996
Industrial Market
Continuing strong demand for warehouses, office/distribution facilities and manufacturing plants has pushed industrial vacancy rates down into single digits throughout Florida. With no sign of a recession in either the...
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Published on 8/1/1996
Michael Swerdlow: The Power Center
Florida's construction industry was on the brink of a big recession in 1988 when Michael J. Swerdlow and his fellow investors paid $300 million for Broward County's venerable Hollywood Inc....
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Published on 8/1/1996
Sea Of Green
Howard Frank has an unusual problem: finding ways to spend his employer's money. It may sound like a dream job, but when the employer is Carnival Corp., which will generate...
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Published on 8/1/1996
College On A Budget
What would Florida railroad magnate Henry Flagler think about the strict austerity that has taken hold today at his once ostentatious Ponce de Leon hotel? When he opened the St....
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Published on 8/1/1996
Sweetbreads To Soul Food
First-time tourists to Gainesville and Ocala are well-advised to head for the downtown historic districts and check in with the visitors centers. Within easy walking distance of each are restaurants...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Editor's Page
Recently, I received an unexpected invitation from the Italian consul in Miami to join him and his fellow European consuls for lunch at his residence. Dining on Italian fare was...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Slow But Steady Growth
"I am saving $676 per month over last year and we have more people on the plan," enthuses Harold Klein, controller of Sunny Manufacturing Inc., a 60-worker manufacturer of waterbeds...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Timing Is Everything
Give banker Eduardo Masferrer credit for a good sense of timing. In 1988, he was living in Panama and running Istmo Bank, which he'd founded, when the increasingly chaotic reign...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Around the State
Florida Allstate Insurance Co., Florida's second-largest property insurer, plans to reduce its exposure to catastrophic loss by reorganizing its Florida property and casualty business in accordance with new laws passed...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Enterprise Florida (finally)
Lots of things helped seal the deal for Gov. Chiles' economic development package during the 1996 Legislature: an increased role for international trade leaders, a bigger voice for local officials,...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Looking Glass Law
A surprising new tort ruling is forcing business people to confront an old problem: the prospect of being held liable for wrongs they didn't do. The case stemmed from the...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Between The Giants' Toes
It is late morning on a sunny spring day, and work is getting off to a slow start at Pineapple Press. The problem is not the weather. Although sunlight streams...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Top 250 Public Companies
This year, 27th annual survey of the state's Top 250 Public Companies by Florida Trend presents a tantalizing mix. Compared with last year, revenues and market value rose sharply, but...
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Published on 7/1/1996
House Of Glass
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Ask Anchor Glass Chairman James R. Malone why he took his current job three years ago, and that's about the best...
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Published on 7/1/1996
Real Estate: Beach Party
Property values are rising on South Beach as new development blends with the area's architectural assets.
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Published on 6/1/1996
Skunked!
Environmentalists thought "ecosystem management" was a bright idea for preserving Florida's natural assets, until the Chiles administration embraced the concept.
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Published on 6/1/1996
Openers
Aerospace Robert J. Khoury, 53, succeeded his brother, Amin J. Khoury, 57, as chief executive officer of Palm Beach County's BE Aerospace Inc., a designer and manufacturer of commercial aircraft...
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Published on 6/1/1996
New In Fort Lauderdale
The 1996 Golden Spoon Awards from Florida Trend, honoring the state's best restaurants, were celebrated in March at a wonderful banquet recognizing the winners. The event was held in Fort...
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Published on 6/1/1996
Jacksonville
Back in the 1960s, New York City Mayor John Lindsay once commented, it a suave urban bon mot, that he didn't trust air he couldn't see.That sentiment came to mind...
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Published on 6/1/1996
Brazil's New Prominence
Brazil moved into first place among Florida's trading partners last year, surpassing Japan as the state's biggest source of import and export business. And though much of Brazil's influence can...
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Published on 6/1/1996
Around the State
FloridaThe Florida Department of Law Enforcement's standard crime rate, which does not include drug offenses or fraud, decreased 6.4% in 1995 as the ratio of crimes per 100,000 residents dropped...
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Published on 6/1/1996
Legal Trends: Retailers Beware!
Over the last five years, Oakland, Calif.-based Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller has terrorized American retailers by filing huge gender discrimination cases against chain stores - most recently, Florida's Publix....
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Published on 6/1/1996
"Hiring is a Crapshoot"
One worker with a drug habit can wreak havoc on a small business' finances and reputation.
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Published on 6/1/1996
