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Scott Israel and a lesson in crisis management

Several years ago, when I was editor of SFBW’s sister publication, Lifestyle magazine, I had an opportunity to do an in-depth interview of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. I traveled

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Major South Florida company giving 5 percent of profits to charity

City Furniture has a reputation for innovation, including a green delivery fleet and same day delivery. Recently, it was in the news for bringing back water beds. Now, it’s doubling

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City Furniture CNG trucks at the company's headquarters in Tamarac
Acting CEO gets job permanently at Broward Health; new commissioner appointed

The North Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners on Wednesday named acting CEO Gino Santorio to the position permanently and announced a new commissioner. “I am excited to have been

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The gig is up

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Investment Opportunity Act helps distressed areas, generates tax savings

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Hidden in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts is a program called the Investing in Opportunity Act, which can bring

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Powerhouse lawyer changes the math

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Photos by Evelyn Suarez John J. Uustal is a trial lawyer and co-founder of Kelley/Uustal, a leading catastrophic injury and wrongful

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Trial lawyer and co-founder of Kelley/Uustal, John Uustal (right), was interviewed by SFBW Associate Publisher Clayton Idle
Bluegreen strategy evolves

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Just how advanced marketing of the timeshare industry is, becomes clear during a visit to Bluegreen Vacations’ headquarters in Boca Raton.

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CEO Shawn Pearson celebrates Bluegreen’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange
The Gig Economy

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Photography by Patrick Clinton Think of a typical customer call center, and images of workers packed into cubes amid a cacophony

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The Good Life

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_hoverbox image=”28306″ primary_title=”” hover_title=”COS Expands”] COS, the modern London-based fashion label, has followed its first South Florida store in the Design District with

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Park Grove

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] The Related Group and Terra Group are celebrating the completion of two of the three towers at Park Grove in Coconut

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VistaBlue Singer Island

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] The first new luxury condominium in many years on Palm Beach’s Singer Island has been completed. Nearly all of the property’s

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Missoni Baia

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] The first branded residences from Italian fashion and design house Missoni is under construction in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The 57-story, $150 million

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