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UF Health Shands is building a 174-room hotel to provide convenient, high-quality accommodations for visiting outpatients and relatives of hospitalized patients. Construction of the six-story, 124,000-square-foot UF Health Guest House at the former Rush Lake Motel site, 1410 SW 16th Ave., is under way and is expected to be completed in April 2020. It is...

Palmetto Moon, a leading Southern lifestyle retail store, has opened its newest store location at Celebration Pointe. The 6,500 square-foot store carries on-trend and affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, décor and gifts from a wide selection of Southern-inspired lifestyle brands, including Columbia, Southern Marsh, YETI, Simply Southern, Vineyard Vines, Southern Tide and more. Palmetto Moon also...

Cox Business has announced Aha Pure Foods as the winner of Get Started Gainesville. More than 40 local businesses applied to pitch at the event. Five businesses were selected as finalists and presented their ideas and business plans to a panel of experts and in front of a live audience. The finalists were Qu Parking,...

The act of growing oneself or others requires leadership. The ability to lead is an art, a collection of skills, which can be learned and sharpened1 through professional development. Nancy Halbrook, Human Resources Manager for SiVance, LLC, a subsidiary of Milliken & Company, believes that professional development is equally as important as technical education in...

Twin sisters Jesi and Remi came wailing into the world on May 15 as conjoined twins locked at the abdomen, the outline of the girls’ wiggling bodies looking to their parents like the shape of a beautiful heart. Two months later, University of Florida Health surgeons separated the babies. What followed for parents Andre and...

To get a better idea of how and when consumers plan to shop this holiday season and on Cyber Week, BlackFriday.com surveyed over 1,500 Americans to find out the biggest trends. Floridians have are on a budget with regards to holiday gift shopping 45% are planning to spend less than $400 on holiday gifts this...

United Way of North Central Florida is looking for toys, sponsors and volunteers for the second annual United for the Holidays toy drive. United for the Holidays is a holiday toy drive for children between 0 and 18 years old in Alachua County. Based off last year’s success, this year’s goal is to serve at...

Greater Gainesville is now home to Amazon’s growing logistics footprint with the launch of its latest delivery station in Florida. The 10,000 SF facility, located near the Gainesville Regional Airport, is expected to bring approximately 100 new full-time and part-time jobs, including seasonal roles, to the area as operations ramp up. “We are excited to...

The competition to attract and retain good talent is stiff in today’s job market. While salary and benefits are often the biggest investment a company makes in its employees, there are other ways organizations can set themselves apart. And as savvy companies know, a key tool used to make potential hires sit up and take...

When managing your money, gone are the days of written ledgers and tracking paper receipts. More Americans are choosing financial apps to manage their money to assist them with budgeting, saving and investing their money. Different apps are helpful for various uses. “The learning curves on most apps is fairly flat. They are all usually...