Downtown Ocala is one step closer to adding a hotel. City staffers this week agreed to recommend that the City Council allow Downtown Ocala LLC to build and operate a hotel on the former chamber of commerce site. Downtown Ocala LLC is owned by Ocala hotelier Danny Gaekwad, who already owns several area hotels and…
MELBOURNE, FLA. — Florida Institute of Technology will use a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to launch the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovative Design, a 100,000-square-foot facility in the former Intersil building in Palm Bay that will advance the capabilities of U.S. companies in next-generation manufacturing methods while ensuring students…
The poster child for blight along U.S. 41 just got put up for adoption. This week, a front-end loader deposited piles of wood and concrete into dump truck beds on the lot at 4610 Land O’Lakes Blvd. The rubble is the former home of McFarlane’s Appliance Center and, at one time, had been a truck…
