Florida's building boom is historic. Its workforce is getting older and smaller: for every five construction and trades workers who retire, only two step in to replace them.
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@floridatrend.bsky.socialFlorida's building boom is historic. Its workforce is getting older and smaller: for every five construction and trades workers who retire, only two step in to replace them.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialHailey Kendall dove into Sarasota's high-end real estate market at 20. Now a Broker Associate with William Raveis Real Estate, she exclusively represents sellers of luxury waterfront and architecturally significant homes.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialSeagate Space became the first company to receive preliminary approval from the American Bureau of Shipping for an offshore spaceport design. Its first launches are planned within 18 months.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialAtlanta-based Rreal Tacos has opened its first Florida location in downtown Tampa after an eight-month, $2.5 million-plus buildout of the former Haiku space. A second Tampa Bay spot is in the works in downtown St. Petersburg.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialGeorge Steinbrenner's first business was raising chickens with his sisters and selling the eggs to neighbors. He kept the books, and the children had to earn their spending money.
#FloridaTrend #FloridaTrendIcon #GeorgeSteinbrenner #Yankees #Tampa
@floridatrend.bsky.socialEmmy-winning analyst Doug Waechter eats the same pregame meal while the Rays are winning. So far: chicken wings, a nod to Wade Boggs. But wings were off the menu before ALCS Game 2. Also, he's a big cheese guy.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialIsabel Rose Gurvitch's family fled Kyiv when she was 13. Now 17, the Aventura teen's nonprofit has covered the costs of 300 mammograms for low-income women in war-torn Ukraine.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialMore crocodile species are becoming threatened and endangered, and the professionals who care for them need specialized training.
#FloridaTrend #StAugustine #FloridaNature #WildFlorida #WildlifeConservation
@floridatrend.bsky.socialLate this month, 5,000 chefs, restaurant owners, consultants and other professionals will gather in Orlando for the 55th Florida Restaurant Show.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialAI may help radiologists find breast cancer. It may also cause false alarms that lead to worry and follow-up screenings patients never needed.
Would you want AI reading your mammogram before it's proven?
#FloridaTrend #BreastCancerAwareness #HealthcareAI #Radiology #UF
@floridatrend.bsky.socialAuto technicians are in demand. Santa Fe College has broken ground on a $16-million, 17,200-sq.-ft. training center in Gainesville, slated to open in fall 2027.
#FloridaTrend #SantaFeCollege #Gainesville #AutomotiveTechnology #SkilledTrades
@floridatrend.bsky.socialš° Our October issue is out!
Inside this month:
šļø Who Will Build Florida?
š State of Growth
šŖ Coin Flip
š³ļø A Taxing Question
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@floridatrend.bsky.socialOcean tech company DEEP has deployed a "subsea human habitat" 56 feet deep in the Florida Keys, where up to four researchers can spend five days on the ocean floor.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialWaterbeds peaked and went into a precipitous decline. Keith Koenig and his late brother, Kevin, reinvented Waterbed City as City Furniture, which became City Home this year.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialCleaner hydrogen peroxide has stumped scientists for years. Researchers at UCF may have found the key.
#FloridaTrend #HydrogenPeroxide #Semiconductors #Nanotechnology #UCFResearch #UCF
@floridatrend.bsky.socialJimmy Buffett planned his estate. Yet his widow and his longtime business advisor are now in court.
Who would you trust to control your family's money after you're gone?
@floridatrend.bsky.socialFlorida has about 255,000 EVs on the road, second only to California. But Optimus Energy Solutions founder Ben Pauluhn says building chargers moves at the speed of local bureaucrats and utility timelines.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialDaniel Kleinman left ocean robotics to build Seaworthy Collective, a Miami nonprofit backing blue-tech founders. 111 entrepreneurs, 57 startups, $34M raised, in a sector that gets under 1% of global funding.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialFPL set a goal for 62% clean power by 2035. Its own filing now projects just 42%, with a solar buildout spanning about 127 square miles, more than Orlando. FPL says it's designing sites to avoid wetlands.
@floridatrend.bsky.socialShawn Cutter grew up in Ohio's Amish country, a sixth-generation farmer. Now he's reimagining what a data center campus can look like.
