Featured Stories

If you have not had the opportunity to eat at one of Keke’s twenty-four locations, Keke’s is a full-service restaurant dedicated to providing an outstanding breakfast and lunch experience; a meal where everything is handmade, using the best ingredients available, with fresh fruit and vegetables that are delivered daily, and using fresh bread and dairy...

The Gainesville Checkers located near UF’s campus at 3325 W University Ave was selected by the company, which operates Checkers & Rally’s restaurant locations nationwide, to be the very first location to undergo remodeling toward the chain’s new design prototype, Checkers & Rally’s Model 4.0. Checkers & Rally’s Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer Jennifer...

City Manager Anthony Lyons recently announced the creation of a new department, the Strategic Initiatives Department, which will be headed by Carrie Blanchard Bush, who initially led the Citizen-Centered Gainesville initiative. The creation of the department comes after months of combined efforts to find new approaches to major institutional priorities, such as the city budget...

Locally-grown SharpSpring expanded into a newly-built, state-of-the-art office building in Innovation Square to accommodate its rapid growth. A publicly-traded company offering robust marketing solutions, SharpSpring’s success has been largely supplemented by its inclusive and positive organizational culture. “You come in as a stranger and, in less than two weeks, you feel like part of the...

It’s no secret that entrepreneurs are tasked with doing everything in their business. The thought of adding one more thing can seem impossible! But when it comes to continuing education, business owners should look at these opportunities as investments in their future. In the daily press of running a business, it’s tough to step back...

Alachua County needs citizen volunteers! There is a popular phrase that says, “Think globally, act locally.” One great way to act locally is serving on an Alachua County Advisory Board. These Boards provide essential advice to the County Commission. They are relied on to delve deeply into issues referred to them, and their recommendations are...

The White House has announced Alachua and Bradford Counties—both located in Florida’s Greater Gainesville region—together as one of the nation’s latest TechHire communities. Greater Gainesville joins a network of 70 TechHire communities across the country receiving support to bring new jobs to local economies, facilitate business growth, and give local residents a pathway into the...

UF Health researchers have received a grant to use big data analytics to improve health care for children in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP) in Florida and Texas. Through funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the UF Health team will serve as...

Gainesville, Florida-based Celebration Pointe Holdings LLC, the sponsor and owner of Celebration Pointe, a 1 million square foot plus mixed-use project located in Gainesville, Florida, has partnered with New York-based investment firm Arcis Capital Partners LLC (“ArcisCap”) to secure a $70 million revolving facility for the development of the project. When fully complete, Celebration Pointe...

Gainesville is very much a growing city right now, a town that is growing up and doesn’t quite know what it is just yet. Much of that growth is centered around the Archer Road area, with concurrent developments in Celebration Pointe, Butler Plaza North, and the renovated section of the existing Butler Plaza that will...