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Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as AGTC, is an Alachua County based company that rose to national prominence when a collaboration deal with pharmaceutical giant Biogen was announced last summer. Shares of AGTC are publicly traded on the NASDAQ market and the company is worth $226 million, according to October 23 market closing...

Hutchison PLLC, a leading provider of strategic business counsel to the life science and technology communities, announced today that it has opened an office in Gainesville, FL, to support the entrepreneurial activities so prevalent in Gainesville and Central Florida. “We have observed the growth of entrepreneurial activities in Gainesville and Central Florida for many years,”...

Dr. Herbert Wertheim and the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation have committed $50 million to launch a $300 million public and private investment in the University of Florida’s College of Engineering. The Wertheim gift, the largest cash gift in UF’s history, is the cornerstone of a fund-raising initiative that will pool funds from...

By: Laura Labovitz Whether you’re looking to meander the shops for hours or you hate shopping for pleasure, Gainesville has plenty of unique and easy holiday gift shopping for you. To benefit every personality of shopper, we’ve compiled some local gift giving ideas.   I want to give a nice gift, but I’m strapped on...

Procedures Represent Gainesville’s First Use of New Technology  Gainesville, FL – North Florida Regional Medical Center (NFRMC) of Gainesville, an HCA affiliate, announced recently it is the first hospital in the Gainesville area to perform robotic assisted surgery using the newest da Vinci Xi® system.  The new system offers three dimensional high definition visualization and...

For tax year 2016, the Internal Revenue Service has announced  their annual inflation adjustments for more than 50 tax provisions, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes. The tax items for tax year 2016 of greatest interest Alachua County Business business community include: For tax year 2016, the 39.6 percent tax rate affects...

Gainesville, Florida – The 4A’s PAC for the African American Accountability Alliance, Inc. (4As) is pleased to announce that it will host its Elected Officials Accountability Town Hall Form on Monday, November 9th, 6:00 p.m.  The Accountability Forum will be held at the John Henry Thomas Auditorium inside the Alachua County Health Department located at...

64-bed complex is located three blocks from the University of Florida’s campus. An affiliate of Quad Equities, a Florida and New York-based real estate investment company, has acquired a 64-bed student-oriented apartment complex located at 1740 NW 3rd Place in Gainesville, Florida, three blocks from the University of Florida’s campus. Jariel Bortnick, the founder and...

By: Ron Wayne If you build it, they will come. That’s the idea behind Innovation Square, created by the University of Florida on the former site of the Alachua General Hospital between UF and downtown Gainesville. University and city leaders hope this field of dreams becomes a thriving community where researchers can work, live and...

GRU General Manager Ed Bielarski announces appointments to GRU’s executive management team Justin Locke, Chief Financial Officer Justin Locke has worked in public utilities for more than 20 years, including most recently as Vice President of Finance at CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas. He also served as CFO of both the Guadalupe Valley Electric...