Featured Stories

McCall Service has opened a new technical training facility in Newberry. “The Gainesville Training Center is geared to be the hub for all instructional classroom training for our company. We are directly geared to offer residential and commercial pest control instruction as well as termite training. The classroom will hold up to 16 employees and...

Florida Credit Union (FCU), a full-service financial institution with more than 80,000 members in north and central Florida, has opened its newest branch at 2803 SW 42nd Street, Suite 10 in the Butler North Plaza in Gainesville. The new branch, which is the institution’s fourth location in the Gainesville area, is the 11th branch for...

The Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) has officially started the “More in Midtown”, NW First Avenue streetscape project. Construction is scheduled to be complete by September 2017. This eight-month-long renovation promises many improvements to one of Gainesville’s most iconic neighborhoods. The four-block corridor between NW 16th and 20th Streets will undergo a comprehensive redesign to include...

If you have not had the opportunity to eat at one of Keke’s twenty-four locations, Keke’s is a full-service restaurant dedicated to providing an outstanding breakfast and lunch experience; a meal where everything is handmade, using the best ingredients available, with fresh fruit and vegetables that are delivered daily, and using fresh bread and dairy...

The Gainesville Checkers located near UF’s campus at 3325 W University Ave was selected by the company, which operates Checkers & Rally’s restaurant locations nationwide, to be the very first location to undergo remodeling toward the chain’s new design prototype, Checkers & Rally’s Model 4.0. Checkers & Rally’s Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer Jennifer...

City Manager Anthony Lyons recently announced the creation of a new department, the Strategic Initiatives Department, which will be headed by Carrie Blanchard Bush, who initially led the Citizen-Centered Gainesville initiative. The creation of the department comes after months of combined efforts to find new approaches to major institutional priorities, such as the city budget...

Locally-grown SharpSpring expanded into a newly-built, state-of-the-art office building in Innovation Square to accommodate its rapid growth. A publicly-traded company offering robust marketing solutions, SharpSpring’s success has been largely supplemented by its inclusive and positive organizational culture. “You come in as a stranger and, in less than two weeks, you feel like part of the...

It’s no secret that entrepreneurs are tasked with doing everything in their business. The thought of adding one more thing can seem impossible! But when it comes to continuing education, business owners should look at these opportunities as investments in their future. In the daily press of running a business, it’s tough to step back...

Alachua County needs citizen volunteers! There is a popular phrase that says, “Think globally, act locally.” One great way to act locally is serving on an Alachua County Advisory Board. These Boards provide essential advice to the County Commission. They are relied on to delve deeply into issues referred to them, and their recommendations are...

The White House has announced Alachua and Bradford Counties—both located in Florida’s Greater Gainesville region—together as one of the nation’s latest TechHire communities. Greater Gainesville joins a network of 70 TechHire communities across the country receiving support to bring new jobs to local economies, facilitate business growth, and give local residents a pathway into the...