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Former Gainesville mayor and lifelong business entrepreneur James F. Painter will lead the Corporate Advisory Board for “The Village,” Gainesville’s SantaFe Senior Living Community. As Gainesville’s mayor and city commissioner, Mr. Painter’s public service drew from his immense experience collected over 40 years of private enterprise. In addition to owning Painter Masonry, Mr. Painter’s résumé...

According to a newly formed group of local residents, community leaders, and business owners, Gainesville currently has the most expensive rates for broadband internet access in the state of Florida. And the group, Connected Gainesville, has plans to do something about it. The initiative, launched on the steps of City Hall the afternoon of February...

The public is invited to sign up for Alachua County Citizens Academy classes, beginning on April 6, 2017. The Citizens Academy offers residents an opportunity to participate in behind-the-scenes tours, hear presentations, and interact with elected officials and staff from the Board of County Commissioners, Constitutional Officers, the Judiciary, the Library District and the School...

The University of Florida Small Business and Vendor Diversity Relations office is pleased to announce the launch of its 2017 Mentor-Protégé Program. This program connects emerging businesses with established business leaders and provides them with the opportunity to learn and hear from UF departments, project managers and business industry experts and interface with fellow UF administrative leaders...

Hear Again Music and Movies has resided in downtown Gainesville since owner Andrew Schaer moved the store in 2009. The storefront, with its windows covered in album art, foreshadows what passersby will see inside: more than 7,000 records ranging from Etta James and Leonard Cohen to Taylor Swift and Sonic Youth, and every genre in...

Alachua-based life sciences company AxoGen expects to grow more than 40 percent in 2017 as it continues to develop and sell products derived from human tissue. CEO Karen Zaderej is one of the few women in the world to lead a medical technology company. Since she joined in 2006 as the sixth employee, Zaderej has...

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, the largest provider of mental health and substance use disorder services in North Central Florida, has been selected by the Florida Department of Children and Families to distribute 117 doses of Narcan to patients and their families who are at risk of an opioid overdose. In the United States overdoses now surpasses...

There are a growing number of companies within Gainesville’s booming startup community geared toward helping clients with the sales and marketing side of their business. Word is spreading as these companies continue to expand and bring their clients message with them.   Kinwa A mobile app design and development studio, Kinwa strengthens the brand awareness...

Forty-one organizations across North Florida were recently awarded a total of $210,000 in grants by the Weyerhaeuser Foundation’s Giving Fund, which has invested millions in communities across the country. Gainesville and its surrounding communities received the largest investment with thirty-one organizations securing grant awards to support a variety of programs and initiatives. Recipients include the...

Gainesville’s Selling Factory takes sales training to a new level In the summer of 1999, just before graduating from the University of Florida, Brad Gamble experienced first-hand the challenges of initiating outbound sales calls. Little did he realize that the experience he gained on the sales floor of Infinite Energy, which had been around only...