Profiles

By Bradley Osburn Rêve, a new exotic car rental service owned by Gainesville natives Daniel Sarkis and Darren Jones, doesn’t just want to rent you a car, but a lifestyle. With a growing fleet of performance vehicles and an expanding client base, the two are hoping to spread their enthusiasm for high-performance driving in well-engineered...

For many business owners, AMJ, Inc., is a name synonymous with quality properties and personal customer service in the worlds of North Central Florida real estate, property management and general contracting. Since 1977, founder Mike Warren has steered the AMJ ship to its current size of 20 staff who manage high-end property around the region....

Dean, Mead & Bovay, a Florida-based corporate law firm that will soon have five offices around the state, has added two longtime Gainesville residents to its business litigation practice: Robert Griscti and Jennifer Lester will serve as Of Counsel, mutually overseeing the business litigation practice.   Griscti specializes in appellate law, professional licensing, government investigations,...

By Bradley Osburn “It’s not a hand-out, it’s a hand-up,” said Alachua Habitat for Humanity Development Director Casey Smith. “That’s a big misconception people have, that we just give away houses.” In reality, Habitat for Humanity is a well-thought-out and very successful system by which low-income families can gain access to housing at a zero...

By Bradley Osburn The problem with most websites these days is that they’re often just passive pages with no real chance for interaction with visitors. Your sales team might be the most productive team in town, but if all you have is a questionnaire on your site that visitors can fill out, there’s a 50/50...

By Amanda Purser Most locals know of the expansive presence of the University of Florida and its undergraduate and graduate programs, but many do not know of other local education options. Here are four schools that call Gainesville home. Academy for Five Element Acupuncture Tucked away among the downtown streets on 2nd Ave, an institution...

By Bradley Osburn Schackow and Mercadante. You may have never had to call on them for your personal injury needs, but if you’ve seen one of their commercials then you know that they’re two names that are hard to forget. What you might not know is that the Schackow half of the firm is actually...

by Bradley Osburn Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) has been a leading name in civil law for 35 years. The Gainesville-based, five-attorney, not-for-profit firm operates statewide in an effort to keep government accountable and give a voice to those who wouldn’t normally have access to expensive legal services. Attorneys Jodi Siegel, Niel Chonin, Gabriela Ruiz and...

Just north of the Cade Museum on Main Street and just behind the Citizen’s Co-op, in a small classroom filled with comic books, comic strips, easels, paints and pencils, one of Gainesville’s best-kept secrets is busy at work teaching the next generation of artists the craft and business of cartooning. The nonprofit Sequential Artists Workshop...

Want to go skiing, skydiving or spring diving but can’t find any company listings or good reviews online? Sportody has a solution for that. Sportody is a 12-person technology startup running out of the Gainesville Innovation Hub that’s looking to change the way people search for outdoor sporting opportunities by providing a single website for...