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Crescent Sky Real Estate Partners Acquires 17 Building Multifamily Housing Portfolio

Crescent Sky Real Estate Partners has announced the purchase of the Villas at Aston Square and the Villas at High Springs, a 17 building multifamily portfolio located in Gainesville. The acquired properties are located near the University of Florida campus, the state’s largest University. According to 2018 census estimates, the Gainesville MSA population has grown...
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JVC Media launches True Oldies Y100 to North Central Florida Radio

JVC Media of Florida, one of the leading independent and locally owned radio broadcasters in the country, has announced it will be bringing the biggest hits of the 60’s and 70’s back to North Central Florida radio with the launch of True Oldies Y100.1 (WXUS-HD2).   The new True Oldies Y100.1 will introduce itself to Ocala,...
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UF Health unveils innovative new facility to treat debilitating neurological conditions

The Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health has recently unveiled its new, world-class clinical care and research building, marking its latest step in the pursuit of providing the nation’s most comprehensive and advanced care for Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The new facility opens to patients July 1. The $9 million...
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Exactech Announces Successful First Knee Surgeries Using Truliant® Porous

Exactech, a developer and producer of bone and joint restoration products and biologic solutions for extremities, hip and knee, has announced the successful first surgeries with Truliant® Porous, the newest implant innovation in the Truliant Total Knee System.  Truliant Porous is a non-cemented implant system that is designed for reproducibility and efficiency in total knee...
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UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital nationally ranked in five specialties

University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital has been nationally ranked in five medical specialties, making significant gains in three areas — pediatric cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, and diabetes/endocrinology, according to the recently released 2019-20 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings by U.S. News & World Report. UF Health’s pediatric cardiology and heart surgery program achieved...
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From Cairo to Gainesville- Leadership Lessons from the late President Anwar Sadat

By Jennifer Webb The tea was incredibly sweet, the kind I would never drink back in Gainesville. However sitting in the spacious living room of Mrs. Jehan Sadat’s home in Cairo, it somehow didn’t seem appropriate to refuse the drink. This specific tea had been part of the allure of the unusual tour my son...
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Foresight, The Rock of Gainesville Break Ground on New Worship Facility

Foresight, a diversified construction management firm, recently broke ground on a new worship facility for The Rock of Gainesville, a family centered nondenominational church currently located on SW 24th Avenue. Foresight is the construction management firm for the church’s new 27,669 SF north campus worship facility on W. Newberry Road that will include a state-of-the-art...
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UF Health patient first to receive new gene therapy for neuromuscular disease since FDA approval

Karen Wright worked her way through the small gathering outside her 4-month-old daughter’s room in pediatric intensive care. It seemed to her as if everyone at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital had come to witness this historic moment. Wright, nervous but thrilled, told a nurse, “I think I’m going to cry.” Near her, a pharmacist...
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Gainesville runner launches app to help find and register for races

Brian Hunt thought there had to be a better way. The 44- year old runner and triathlete – with an Ironman, multiple marathons and other shorter races under his belt – was tired of searching through different websites to try and find information on when and where races were happening. “It was almost as if...
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2020 Inspiring Women Leaders Call for Speakers

The Office of Professional and Workforce Development, in partnership with Warrington College of Business and the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Florida are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Inspiring Women Leaders Conference that will be held March 8-10, 2020 at the University of Florida Hilton Conference Center. This 2...