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CareSpot announces a third urgent care center now open in southwest Gainesville, located in the new Archer Centro West complex in the 3500 and 3600 blocks of Archer Road, across from Butler Plaza. The general public is invited to a grand opening celebration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 10 to meet the staff, tour the...

UF MBA at the Hough Graduate School of Business’s Full-Time and MBA for Professionals Programs soared considerably in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2015 MBA Rankings released Tuesday. UF MBA’s Full-Time Program improved seven spots to No. 41 in the nation, and 16th among U.S. public MBA programs. The MBA for Professionals Program, which includes Executive, Online and...

By: Ron Wayne David Day wants to add Florida to venture capitalists’ GPS. Even better, he would like them to know a lot more about the University of Florida and Gainesville. Day heads UF’s Office of Technology Licensing, which guides the patent process for inventions by UF researchers. But his work doesn’t stop there; OTL...

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,”...

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...

The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute has been awarded $17.5 million to continue to pave the way for a swifter and more collaborative journey from research to improved health in the nation’s third largest state. Florida State University joins UF as a community research partner on the four-year award, which is funded...