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National Real Estate Investor (NREI) & Information Management Network (IMN) announced Front Street Commercial Real Estate Group as finalists for the inaugural 2016 Commercial Real Estate Awards. The awards recognize firms exhibiting superior performance that have consistently led and exemplified the highest degree of business excellence and forward thinking in the commercial real estate industry. The NREI/IMN 2016 Commercial Real Estate Awards celebrate excellence...

The Gainesville Dev Academy has partnered with Youthcombine, a non-profit youth fitness organization in Gainesville, to offer a STEAM summer camp for kids. Each week-long course is designed to provide education about specific coding and art + design topics. Each day is split up with sessions dedicated to coding/technology, art + design, and fitness programming. Visit http://youthcombine.org/steamacademy/ for more information. SEMESTER SCHEDULE...

Fourteen Greater Gainesville leaders in business, education, government and economic development recently traveled to Silicon Valley to educate site selectors, business decision makers and venture capitalists on the opportunities available in Greater Gainesville. This year, in addition to our assets–which include a preeminent state university, the Nation’s No. 1 community college and the state’s most educated workforce and low business and...

UF Health Shands Hospital made the list of top hospitals that was compiled by Becker’s Hospital Review. The company publishes business and legal information for health care industry leaders. “Everyone at UF Health Shands Hospital can be extremely proud of yet another recognition of our commitment to providing the highest quality of patient care. This is...

Florida Credit Union is proud to honor four recent graduates in Alachua County with scholarships for the fall academic semester. FCU provides two different scholarship opportunities annually for recent and past graduates looking to start or continue undergraduate degree programs, the Servin/Ellis Award and the John C. Rawls Award. Both scholarships are competitively awarded on...

Exactech (Nasdaq: EXAC), a Gainesville based developer and producer of bone and joint restoration products and biologic materials for extremities, knee, hip and spine, announced today an expansion of its long-standing partnership with the University of Florida (UF) through naming of Exactech Arena at the newly remodeled Stephen C. O’Connell. The sponsorship gives Exactech presence...

Premier Gainesville apartment management company and commercial real estate developer, Trimark Properties, just announced a $22M refinancing deal for Savion Park, Tuscana, and Solaria, three of their profitable luxury apartments. Combined, the properties feature over 114 units and 157,000 square feet of living space. Located near the University of Florida campus, Sorority Row and Downtown...

KynderMed , a St.Petersburg company, is the winner of the 7th Annual $50,000 Cade Museum prize with their invention, a sleep mask that uses light to prevent preterm birth, reducing death in newborns. KynderMed’s technology has been licensed from the Florida State Science Foundation, and was developed at Florida State University’s College of Medicine. The...

The UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine program is showcasing original works of art by Sandra Murphy-Pak, an artist living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Murphy-Pak paintings and drawings are an exploration of how an artist can continue to work without the use of her hands. In recognition of ALS Awareness Month, Murphy-Pak’s new...

Brittany Martabano, a fourth-year student at the University of  Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named the 2016 national winner of the Bayer Excellence in Communication Award. She was selected from entries representing 27 veterinary schools, which were awarded a total of $70,000 in scholarship funds through this year’s competition. Created and funded by...