In a memo sent last week, Gimenez said the former director of the taxing-district division was “removed” and the agency reorganized. An audit is under way.
If the Former Director is Don Tok, he was in the drop program and had to leave, he was not removed. I hope he will consider speaking out about what really happened. Gimenez was elected to be the person to take the fall not blame his staff. He always dodges the bullet by firing at someone else.
Anyway here is a very happy (painted with a peace-love design) car to look at while I drive in rush hour to County Hall to check out the circus.
If anything is happening I will post it here.
South Florida banks started off 2015 with a bang, continuing strong loan growth through the first three months of the year. Seven local banks generated more than $50 million in new loans and leases in the first quarter of 2015.
The Business Journal compiled key performance numbers from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for all active 55 South Florida-based banks, including two recently acquired banks, into a database. Click through the categories to sort data and see how the banks ranked in terms…
McLane Co., a supply chain services company, paid $10.98 million for the site of its future facility in western Palm Beach County and could create hundreds of jobs there.
YTG Palm Beach IL WR, an affiliate of Atlanta-based TPA Group, sold the 72-acre site along North Corporate Road in the First Park South Florida west of Jupiter to Temple, Texas-based McLane Co. It’s just off the Bee Line Highway.
According to the deed, the property is approved for the development of up to 631,000 square feet…
INSIDE LOOK: Nation's first waste-to-energy power plant in 20 years is in West Palm Beach
Love wins — as does Florida's business community, with Friday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. The U.S. is now the 21st country to legalize same-sex marriage.
Gay and lesbian couples can now marry and have their marriages recognized in all 50 states, a constitutional right that's expected to have major economic impacts, especially for Florida's tourism and event businesses.
Miami-Dade County's tourism bureau was literally jumping for joy after the announcement.…
The owner of the Douglas Entrance Office Parc in Coral Gables has begun a $7 million renovation.
The 467,325-square-foot property at 800 Douglas Road was acquired for $101 million in March 2014 by a joint venture of Miami-based Banyan Street Capital and Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management. With new office projects going up in Coral Gables such as Codina Partners’ 2020 Salzedo and Mediterranean Village, Douglas Entrance must ensure that it remains competitive for tenants.
The five-building…
An affiliate of Richman Group Development Corp. obtained a $31.58 million construction loan for a garden-style apartment project in the West Kendall/Tamiami area of Miami-Dade County.
Richman Three Lakes Development Partners, part of the Greenwich, Conn.-based developer, obtained the loan from Synovus Bank. It was an advance on a $3.05 million mortgage originally granted in December.
The developer recently started construction of 240 apartments on the 11-acre sit on the northwest corner of Southwest…
Our annual list of the region’s 50 fastest-growing companies will now pay increased attention to South Florida’s biggest companies.
To create the list, we accept submissions from private companies, calculate their percentage revenue growth over two years, and rank them accordingly.
We’ll keep doing that, only now we will be creating two Top 25 lists: one for companies with less than $25 million in revenue, and another for those with more than $25 million in revenue.
This is a more balanced…
You've probably eaten at Outback Steakhouse, and maybe even the fast-casual eatery PDQ. Tim Gannon had a role in leading both of those concepts to success, and he's not shy about telling you about how he did it — unless you ask him about the recipe for the Bloomin' Onion.
Gannon was the keynote speaker at the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County Entrepreneur Luncheon on Thursday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, where he told 200 attendees about his entrepreneurial journey…
