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In 2008, Chef Roy Choi began driving a truck around Los Angeles, selling Korean tacos for $2.00 each. By 2010, the Food Network premiered, The Great Food Truck Race nationally. And today, with over 4,000 food trucks on the streets of America, the mobile food industry generates over $1 billion in revenue.   This culinary...

By Tracy Wright Gainesville’s business scene is thriving, and one of the many features that have attracted people to the city is the priority to keep things local. Working Food is a non-profit organization that was developed to build a sustainable local food community “through collaboration, economic opportunity, education, and seed stewardship.” Working Food grew...

Keep Alachua County Beautiful (KACB) will hold its 25th annual Great American Cleanup “Clean Your Block Party,” on Saturday, April 7. All are invited to help the effort at Albert “Ray” Massey (Westside) Park, 1001 NW 34th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601. KACB will provide supplies and volunteers can choose a site or be assigned one....

The Gainesville Arts & Parks Foundation (GAP), has received a $50,000 endowment gift from the Arts Association of Alachua County (AAAC) honoring the late arts leader Doris Bardon. In recognition of this generous donation, the current Historic Thomas Center’s Mezzanine Gallery will be re-named “The Doris Bardon Gallery.” “This gift is the first received towards...

Entrepreneur Shuchi Vyas offers her experiences in the co-founding of GuestBox, and the role that StartUp Weekend Gainesville played in its development. New York City, 2016: I was trying desperately to get something of my own off the ground. After I had spent all of 2015 traveling the world and working with local nonprofits, I...

A select group of University of Florida Health pediatric oncology patients are being enrolled in a trial for HealthSteps — a smartphone-based digital care plan with clear patient care instructions, built-in reminders, a symptom tracker and the ability to share care plans between family members and medical teams. UF Health is the first in the...

Gainesville has been named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live 2018 by Livability.com, outpacing more than 2,100 cities (with populations between 20,000 and 350,000) in this data-driven ranking. The list is an exclusive, independent, editorial ranking by Livability.com. “The 2018 Best Place to Live list includes a fascinating mix of familiar cities...

By Kristina Orrego Rory Causseaux knows God didn’t make him a missionary or a preacher, but an engineer – someone who didn’t create anything but takes what he’s given and makes it better. He’s known it since his earliest memory and he’s held tight to the idea at age 56, as he transitioned from CEO...

Gator BTW, Gainesville’s newest premiere, fast-casual dining experience, opened its doors February 12. A member of the popular Hurricane BTW franchise, the Gainesville store has chosen to rebrand itself as Gator BTW to better connect with the local community. The BTW family of restaurants is fast-growing and this is the first of multiple locations planned...

Walk into the Leadership Gainesville (LG) office in the Chamber of Commerce Building on University and find the hidden realms of Gainesville with all of the lines to connect you. According to Joe Johnson, LG Program Manager, leadership is knowing the people of the community, and using that to ‘create a better community by working...