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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...

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...