St. Lucie School receives FPL STEM Classroom Makeover Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) announced the names of the inaugural five schools in Florida to receive a Classroom Makeover Grant as part of a $2 million, 4-year commitment from its charitable arm, the NextEra Energy Foundation, to advance STEM curriculum, increase the exposure of [...]
Stonemont Launches Construction for Major Spec Industrial Development on Florida's Treasure Coast Stonemont Financial Group, a private real estate investment firm specializing in industrial development and net lease assets, announced Monday that it has broken ground on a new two-building, 1.3-million-square-foot speculative industrial development adjacent to Interstate 95 in Fort Pierce, [...]
Pulmonologist and Critical Care Specialist Sanjiv Tewari, MD, Joins Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital Sanjiv Tewari, MD, Medical Director of Critical Care at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital Dr. Tewari has served on multiple boards and committees and has contributed to numerous research publications, book chapters and presentations. He has been [...]
GreenPointe Developers Commemorate Groundbreaking at Wylder GreenPointe Developers and the development team of H&J Contracting, Firethorn Underground, Kimley-Horn Engineering, and Lucido & Associates Design recently celebrated the start of construction at Wylder. GreenPointe Developers, LLC announced construction is underway at Wylder, a new one-of-a-kind community in Port St. Lucie. GreenPointe and [...]
Trend to Watch: Amid Pandemic, New Businesses are Being Created at Fastest Pace on Record Tom Kindred, FSBDC at IRSC Regional Director While there is not much positive to say about the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic locally and nationally, there is at least one silver lining. And with what we [...]
FSBDC at IRSC Profit Mastery Program The Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Indian River State College (IRSC) will hold another round of Financial Training, formally known as Profit Mastery, on the IRSC Blackburn Campus in Fort Pierce starting Tuesday, January 11, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. EST. This is an eight-week program offered [...]
GEICO Opens New Vero Location Maggie Deng, head of GEICO's local office in Vero Beach. GEICO has opened a new local office at 921 15th Place in Vero Beach to serve customers living in Vero Beach, Sebastian, Fort Pierce, Indian River, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties. Maggie Deng leads the new office. Deng [...]
Tips for Managing Cash Flow What's the No. 1 reason small businesses fail? Cash flow, not lack of profits. About 80% of small business failures happen because of poor cash-flow management. Mike Bernard, a consultant at the Florida SBDC at Indian River State College and a financial specialist, says he hears it all the [...]
The Gift One Year Later Graduation ceremony photographed on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, at Lawnwood Stadium in Fort Pierce. One year ago, author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott pledged $45 million to Indian River State College (IRSC), the largest individual donation in the College's 60-year history. The gift came without prescription-Scott writes [...]