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Top Performing STEM Students Selected as Sunshine State Scholars
April 2, 2014 - Florida's top performing STEM students were recently recognized as Sunshine State Scholars and given the opportunity to attend a two-day event in Orlando on February 13th and 14th. It was an event that could possibly change the course of their future as they learned why Florida is the best...
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Florida’s Tax Climate Perfect For Business
March 20, 2014 - Monday, November 18, 2013 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 43 Florida's Tax Climate Perfect For Business Florida's climate is one of our best qualities. In fact, it's what gives us our nickname, "the Sunshine State." Our moderate to warm winter temperatures, cool sea breezes and tropical summers make Florida a premier...
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Florida’s Vibrant Economy
March 17, 2014 - 22 Nov, 2013 By Rachel Hamilton If you need a reason to move to Florida besides the ocean air, you could come for what Gray Swoope, Florida's secretary of commerce, and president and CEO of Enterprise Florida Inc., calls, an impressive, vibrant economy. That vibrancy is due at least in part...
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Site Selection Magazine’s Investment Profile on Florida’s Heartland
July 11, 2013 - Site Selection magazine published an investor's profile on Florida's Heartland in their July 2013 edition entitled, Fertile Fields: Companies large and small are betting big on an expected economic resurgence in a Florida region known more for its muck than its money. If these firms have their way,...
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BTOP Case Study: Florida Rural Broadband Alliance (FRBA)
March 28, 2013 - Gina Reynolds, CEO of FHREDI, writing for OSP Magazine... The Florida Rural Broadband Alliance (FRBA) is a partnership formed by Opportunity Florida and Florida's Heartland Regional Economic Development Initiative. Representing rural communities located throughout 15 counties within northwest and south central Florida, these regional economic development organizations collaborate with local...
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Florida Heartland Employees are Among World’s Best-Performing Workforces
January 19, 2013 - Adventist Health System (AHS), which is comprised of 43 hospital campuses including Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center, has received the Gallup Great Workplace Award, recognizing the organization as having one of the best-performing workforces in the world. AHS was presented the award during the Gallup Summit May 10-12, 2011, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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America’s Gateway Logistics Center Website is Open for Business
December 5, 2012 - Strategically located in central southern Florida, Americas Gateway Logistics Center is the integrated logistics solution for manufacturers and distributors who wish to capture growing and emerging domestic and global markets for their goods and services. An integrated, multi-modal, mixed-use industrial park with existing access to inland truck routes, rail, major...
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The Sweet Spot for Global Trade
December 1, 2012 - If business leaders and economic developers in Florida's Heartland have their way, the region will also become known as the sweet spot for global logistics, manufacturing and international trade. The focal point of this effort is the planned Americas Gateway Logistics Center, a mixed-use industrial park near Moore...
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LS9 Opens Okeechobee Plant
September 10, 2012 - LS9 Inc., a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels, recently announced the successful start-up of its Florida operations with an initial production run of fatty alcohols. LS9 completed the retrofit of the demonstration facility in Okeechobee, Fla. in May of this year. Read the...
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Three Companies Team Up For Major Logistics Center
December 7, 2011 - Florida landowners Lykes Bros., Inc. and A. Duda & Sons, Inc. will implement a master-planned international logistics center on 4,700 acres in central southern Florida and have named the international commercial real estate firm of Cushman & Wakefield to begin marketing the facility. Planned for 30 million square feet of manufacturing and...
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