Florida Trend

02/14/2025

⏳ Final Day to Apply! ⏳
🏆 Is your company one of Florida’s best workplaces? Don’t miss your chance to be recognized in Florida Trend’s 100 Best Companies To Work For!
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02/14/2025

🤝 Nicklaus Children's Hospital and FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine team up to create South Florida’s only pediatric academic hospital. This collaboration will advance physician training, research and patient care for children in South Florida and beyond. https://bit.ly/40T53qu

Nicklaus Children's Health System and Florida International University, through its Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, announced a strategic affiliation to create the region's only pediatric academic hospital that will enhance expert pediatric medicine in South Florida and beyond. This collaborat...

02/13/2025

🏢 The evolving office: As companies beckon employees back, the right office space can make all the difference.

Mike DiBlasi had a pretty sweet work set-up. Corner office on a high floor in a downtown Tampa office tower with a view overlooking the Hillsborough River. As CBRE's senior managing director for advisory and transaction services in North Florida, DiBlasi sometimes helps businesses figure out the rig...

02/13/2025

🌊 City and county officials across Florida are tackling climate change head-on, working to protect communities from rising seas and extreme weather. “We’re going to figure this out.”
⚡ Read more from Brittney J. Miller. bit.ly/3QfUQzu

When Jessica Beach was hired by the city of St. Augustine as a stormwater engineer in 2017, the public works director gave her a pair of knee-high wading boots and some advice: “She said, ‘You need a tide app on your phone.' She was not kidding, as I quickly found out,” Beach recalls. “I dro...

02/13/2025

🌊 Climate resilience in action! As sea levels rise, Floridians are stepping up to protect their communities from flooding and extreme weather.
🔗 Read more from Mike Vogel: https://bit.ly/3EzfWX0

Florida can do precious little to decrease the pace of global carbon emissions and whatever level of climate change comes from them. Florida's carbon dioxide emissions from all sectors and all fuels peaked 20 years ago at 260 million metric tons, according to the U.S. Energy Administration. In 2022,...

02/12/2025

Congratulations to Florida Trend's for the week of February 10, 2025! 🏆 Greater Naples Chamber South Florida Red Cross Agentis

The Leadership Collier Foundation (LCF), of the Greater Naples Chamber, announces Lisa Halsey has been accepted into its Leadership Collier Class of 2025. Lisa is the Chief Advancement Officer at Gulfshore Playhouse. The nine-month program explores local government, education, arts and more. Lisa gr...

02/12/2025

🚨 Last chance! Applications close in just 3 days! Stand out as one of the best workplaces in Florida—your team deserves this recognition.
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02/12/2025

📉 Florida has the worst passing rate on national nursing exam in the country, but it's improving.
📰 Catch up on the latest Florida health care news in our weekly roundup: https://bit.ly/3EBXuNx

A weekly alert that contains in-depth news, information, insight and analysis on the most critical health care related issues and topics facing Florida.

02/12/2025

🌱 Florida's farms are going high-tech!
🚜 AI is driving the next agricultural revolution—optimizing crops, boosting efficiency, and tackling industry challenges. From mechanization to genetic engineering, each wave of innovation has reshaped farming. Now, AI is set to transform the future of agriculture.
🔗 Read more from Associate Editor Brittney J. Miller: https://bit.ly/3WX0kmu

Perched in her lab, Daeun “Dana” Choi fiddles with her computer mouse and keyboard. A video materializes on her monitor: an image of a row of strawberry plants, zoomed in close enough to see the individual golden flecks patterning their scarlet skins. Their leafy canopies — streaked with veins...

02/11/2025

🎙️ Tune in for the latest installment of Viewpoints with Mary Mayhew, President & CEO of the Florida Hospital Association.
📊 Mayhew shares FHA’s key priorities and the vital role of data-informed decision-making in improving healthcare across Florida.

Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association explains how

02/11/2025

⏰ FINAL WEEK! Does your company have what it takes to make the list? Don’t miss your chance to be featured in Florida Trend as one of the 100 Best Companies To Work For In Florida!
⏳ Deadline: February 14, 2025.
📌 Register today: https://bestcompaniesfla.com/

02/11/2025

📣 Meet Florida Trend's February Icon: Alzo J. Reddick! 🌟
"I passed two constitutional amendments (in the Florida Legislature) — one dealing with single member districting and one dealing with historic preservation. The Juneteenth legislation is my legislation," says the educator, former state representative and founder of University of Central Florida's Soldiers to Scholars program.
"I helped bring the Florida A&M University law school here (to Orlando). I helped bring Enterprise Florida and the (former) Sun Bank building."

I was elected class president in 1948 at Holden Street Elementary School (the first elementary school for Black students in Orlando). Although no one in my family had ever attended college, I was identified as being bright because I could read in the first grade. That's my first elected position. I....

02/10/2025

🏝️ Manatee season is here! Winter in Florida means prime time to spot these gentle giants.
📍 Want to see them up close? Check out this guide to the best manatee viewing spots.

02/10/2025

🏛 A bill filed in the Florida House of Representatives could make it more difficult for Wall Street-backed landlords to buy homes in the Sunshine State.
📰 Read more in our weekly Florida real estate news roundup.

A weekly alert that contains in-depth news, information, insight and analysis on the most critical real estate related issues and topics facing Florida.

02/07/2025

📈 Don't miss the top story on Florida Trend's Business Beat – Feb 7, 2025: The Florida Chamber of Commerce predicts state will outpace nation in 2025
🧳 Plus: VISIT FLORIDA launches Florida Unpacked with Alison Hammond on BBC Two to boost UK travel
🔗 More at https://bit.ly/3skQvjx

Florida Trend's headline-focused video news brief, hosted by digital content specialist Aimée Alexander.

02/07/2025

✨ Your employees’ hard work deserves the spotlight!
🥇 This is your chance to gain statewide recognition as one of Florida’s top workplaces!
📅 Register now—just over a week left!
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