Profiles

Apex Technologies wants to save lives, and they plan to do that by getting motorcycle owners to wear their helmets. The two co-founders made their case to a room full of innovators and business people at the April GAIN Luncheon and offered a vision of a helmet with enough extra utility and technological safety features...

National painting studio Painting with a Twist opened its first Gainesville location in early March and celebrated a ribbon cutting on April 2. Painting with a Twist offers people the opportunity to produce a painting, guided by an artist employee, in about two hours for about $35 per person, depending on the painting. The store...

“We are a small-town firm with a depth of service,” said Dell Graham law firm Managing Partner John Jopling. “We’re as close to a one-stop shop for the business community as you’re going to find, and we know how to keep businesses out of the courtroom.” Dell Graham is a 10 lawyer firm with six...

February’s Gainesville Area Innovation Network luncheon featured SpinChill cofounders Trevor Abbott and Ty Parker, who spoke to the GAIN members about crowdfunding, figuring out the business of manufacturing and a corporate culture of having fun. SpinChill is a small Gainesville startup and technology that aims to cool cans of beer in a fraction of the...

In its 91st year, the Gainesville Fine Arts Association is putting on a new face and rolling out new programs in an effort to bring the local art community together like never before. Founded in 1923 by Nelly Trezerant, C. Addison Pound and F.W. Buchholz, the nonprofit’s mission is to value, foster and celebrate the...

– Bradley Osburn The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center biomass power plant has been at the center of a lot of controversy in the last few years, but what’s not often talked about how the facility actually operates. Check out our tour of the facility. ——————– LOCATION: 11201 NW 13th St. WEBSITE: www.gainesvillebiomass.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 46...

  Infinite Energy began, as many ventures do, as two young men who looked at an industry and thought, “We can do better than that.” In 1992 Florida deregulated its natural gas pipelines, and it was about that time that Darin Cook and Rich Blaser, a natural gas buyer for GRU and an accountant keeping...

If you’ve ever had trouble searching for a Gainesville apartment, then a new website by Infinite Energy digital marketing manager and Santa Fe College student Mat Houchens might be just what you need to make your next move a little more smooth. RentGainesvilleApartments.com is the result of frustration with other online property search sites. Houchens...

By Bradley Osburn 1 out of 4 women will experience domestic violence or intimate partner violence in their lifetime, according national statistics, which also say that only 1 in 10 file a report, and only 1 in 7 seek service. In Alachua, Bradford and Union Counties, women seeking help can turn to Peaceful Paths for...

By Bradley Osburn —————————————————- LOCATION – 8200 NW 15th Place NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES – 100 full-time, three part-time and six interns HOW LONG HAS THE COMPANY BEEN IN ITS CURRENT LOCATION – CPPI has been in its current corporate office since 2001. WHAT DOES CPPI DO? – CPPI is a one-stop construction services firm with...