South Florida gains a new business accelerator

Broward College is launching a business accelerator at its downtown Fort Lauderdale campus on Las Olas Boulevard. The accelerator will be led by Don Cook, who was previously chief marketing

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Don Cook
A night with a Macallan scotch expert

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek likes to play up the theme “Live the Good Life,” holding events such as the scotch tasting the presented at NYY Steak earlier this month. I’m

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Macallan scotch
Socially Spacious

Pipeline workspaces create community and connections By Leslie Kraft Burke At first glance, it appears that Pipeline is in the business of renting short-term, high-design shared office spaces to individuals

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Coconut Grove gets twisted

Tenants are expected to move into the Bjarke Ingles designed Grove at Grand Bay in June, according to Cervera Real Estate, the exclusive listing agent for the Terra Group Project.

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Grove at Grand Bay
Don’t feel happy? Just wait

Throughout our working age lives, about half of us aren’t happy, according to a new study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave. The percentage of people who are happy hovers

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Chart showing happiness at different ages
Equity crowdfunding companies get their May day

  The type of opportunities available to accredited investors are now available to the masses. The reason is Title III of the federal Jobs Act went into effect on Monday,

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Sneak Peek: Brightline station rises

The Brightline high-speed rail station in Fort Lauderdale is going vertical. Community leaders were invited Friday to “make their mark” at the Fort Lauderdale station by signing their initials in

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Yo ho, ho at the rum distillery

Avi Aisenberg used drive by hundreds of thousands of acres of sugar cane traveling to his family’s plastics recycling plant in South Bay, a small community along Lake Okeechobee. Now,

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Another piece of business history disappears

About 10 years ago Louis Flematti gave me a tour of the French Quarter, his restaurant just north of Las Olas Boulevard, and talked about how he had sold his 10

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Forget vineyards, the new status symbol is a distillery

You’ve undoubtedly seen celebrities who’ve invested in vineyards and the wave of craft breweries popping up in South Florida, but Nanette Watson has what could be the next hot thing.

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Puerto Rico’s bond crisis fuels arbitrations in Boca Raton

By David Lyons While politicians in Washington grapple for ways to solve Puerto Rico’s money troubles, investor arbitration cases are spilling over from the island to Florida, which has become a

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What you get is what you think

By Stephen Garber   What you see is what you get – and what you get is what you see. And, there really is nothing, not one thing, that we

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