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WEST PALM BEACH — South Florida's high-speed train service will be whizzing by on more tracks across the state in 2022. Brightline's expansion to Orlando is 70% complete and will be finished by the end of 2022, the company reiterated on Tuesday. But that doesn't mean passengers can count on the train service between Miami and Orlando for next year's holiday season. Ben Porritt, Brightline's ...Read More
COLUMBIA - A company that makes large pipe for major waterlines, water-treatment plants and bridge building is investing $40 million to upgrade and expand its Columbia manufacturing facility. American SpiralWeld Pipe Co., a subsidiary of Birmingham, Ala.-based American Cast Iron Pipe Co., will add 100 new jobs over the next five years as it upgrades machinery and constructs a new ...Read More
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The Gulch property from which Jackalope Brewing Company once operated and on which a 24-story hotel building is planned has sold for $5.5 million in a deal that might represent a per-acre record for Nashville. The new owner of the 0.32-acre property, located at 701 Eighth Ave. S., is Atlanta-based North Point Hospitality, according to a source who asked to go unnamed. Local businessman Eddie ...Read More
The developer of a luxury condominium complex in downtown Fort Myers will get a break on the start of construction while its contractor searches for minority-owned businesses it can hire for parts of the work. Fort Myers city council members, sitting last week as commissioners of the Community Redevelopment Agency, agreed to give the Soho Sight LLC of Tampa, developer of Palmera on the River, ...Read More
Dec. 9—Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Thursday that would have prevented local governments from banning natural gas in new construction and limited public information about drinking water. No local governments in North Carolina have moved to ban natural gas from new construction, but some governments in California and the Northeast have. That led to a nationwide push by the natural gas industry ...Read More
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Dec. 1—Gainesville, already a regional hub for medical care, will grow that economic driver even more with plans by HCA Healthcare to build a 90-bed acute care hospital in Alachua County. Increased growth of The Villages, the multi-county retirement mecca south of Ocala, also has prompted HCA to propose a 60-bed acute care hospital there, the company announced Tuesday in a news release. HCA ...Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Regulators have given approval to a plan by the Tennessee Valley Authority to bury toxin-laden coal ash in southeast Memphis. The federal utility received final approval from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation last week, a spokeswoman for the state agency told The Commercial Appeal on Tuesday. TVA plans to have a contractor remove tons of coal ash ...Read More
Shuttered since construction began in 2018, the project to modernize the B Concourse of the Memphis International Airport is looking for a reopening prior to the end of this year. Original timelines had the project concluding during fall 2021, but recent supply chain shortages have pushed the goal back to winter – and potentially even later than that, according to the airport's director of ...Read More