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Adam Mopsick, CEO of Amicon Management, graduated from the University of Florida in 1993 with a BSBA in Finance, and is a LEED-accredited, licensed State of Florida General Contractor. Since co-founding Amicon in 1996, he has successfully led the company to become one of the largest owner representation and real estate consultancies in the region....

Calling all golfers! The Gainesville Arts & Parks Foundation (GAP) is looking for people who love the links and want to help local youth succeed. GAP is holding its third annual Charity Golf Scramble Friday, March 8, with a 1 p.m. shotgun start at Ironwood Golf Course (2100 NE 39th Ave.). The lunch is provided...

The Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention has announced that the 2019 Cade Prize, Florida’s pre-eminent invention and innovation competition, is accepting applications from entrepreneurs, inventors, researchers, and preseed and early-stage companies through March 10, 2019. See full 2019 Cade Prize competition and application details at www.CadeMuseum.org/cadeprize. The Cade Prize, established in 2010, rewards individuals...

Throughout 2018, a Florida-based used CNC machine dealer has been putting its money where its mouth is to support the longevity of the American manufacturing industry – this time with introduction of Veteran to Machinist – a scholarship program exclusively for veterans. CNCMachines.net has announced it will award three $1,000 scholarships to veterans who want...

Alachua County is the home of startup incubators. So, it only seems fitting that Alachua County and the City of Gainesville have the infrastructure with the right resources and tools to enable entrepreneurs. That’s where the Santa Fe College Innovative Product Development Center (IPDC) comes in. The program was born when some of Santa Fe’s...

North Central Florida is predominately made up of tight knit agriculture communities where at any given moment you could get stuck behind a tractor on a quiet two-lane road. Yet, in 2016, The Warren Henry Auto Group​ decided to bring the luxury car dealership, Audi, to Gainesville. Up until then, the closest Audi dealership to...

SharpSpring, developer of a marketing automation platform headquartered in Gainesville, FL, has doubled in size since 2017. The publicly-traded company serves marketing agencies and small to mid-sized businesses here in the US and around the world. In addition to doubling their team, SharpSpring recently almost doubled their office space from 14,000 sf to 25,000 sf...

Brammer Bio, a contract development and manufacturing organization serving companies seeking to develop and commercialize gene therapies, has expanded its Progress Park location dramatically over the past two years. Brammer has expanded  its Alachua-based process and analytical development laboratories and quality control laboratories.  This expansion follows a doubling of its clinical capacity in Alachua in...

Exactech, a Gainesville-grown global medical device manufacturer, has seen strong growth in Gainesville between 2017 and 2018 through the addition of 114 new jobs. The company plans to add up to 25 more jobs by the end of the year. In addition to this growth, the company has expanded their physical footprint with the addition...

The Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention commissioned renowned Dutch artist Noa Haim to bring the internationally acclaimed Collective Paper Aesthetics to Gainesville. The resulting PolyCade Project was specially designed for the Cade, and the Museum invites visitors of all ages to create and personalize foldable, 3D polyhedron structures in the Petty Family Gallery overlooking...