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BTOP Case Study: Florida Rural Broadband Alliance (FRBA)
03/28/2013 | 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 governments,...read more
Florida Heartland Employees are Among World’s Best-Performing Workforces
01/19/2013 | 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
12/05/2012 | 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...read more
The Sweet Spot for Global Trade
12/01/2012 | 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...read more
LS9 Opens Okeechobee Plant
09/10/2012 | 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...read more
Three Companies Team Up For Major Logistics Center
12/07/2011 | 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...read more
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