May 14, 2015
Smith starts recruiting service for sand volleyball players
Judd Smith has long been a promoter of beach volleyball. He played professionally now trains athletes through his Bulldog Beach Volleyball Club.
May 7, 2015
Venture Hive and FWB launch accelerator for veteran entrepreneurs
The City of Fort Walton Beach and Miami-based Venture Hive have partnered to create a new home for the veteran entrepreneurship movement with the launch of a customized national accelerator for veteran-owned businesses.
May 7, 2015
Roundtable will discuss public transportation and economic development
Santa Rosa Bridges and Locklin Technical Center will host a business/post-secondary leader roundtable to explore the positive impact public transportation has on economic development.
May 7, 2015
$2M in profits returned to local farmers
Farm Credit of Northwest Florida is set to give $2 million dollars back to nearly 850 members who primarily live, operate or own farms in northwest Florida’s rural communities. This refund is the equivalent of approximately 15.6 percent of the interest earned on each member’s loan during the last year, and is paid entirely in cash.
Apr 30, 2015
Film officials try 3rd time for new incentive program
Proponents of Florida’s film industry are back in Tallahassee for the third year in a row, trying to get funding for a new tax incentive program.
Apr 30, 2015
Entrepreneurship program trains transitioning service members
Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), recently announced that the agency’s Boots to Business program has trained 25,000 transitioning service members.
Apr 23, 2015
Gulf Power and military large-scale solar plans approved
Gulf Power received unanimous approval from the Florida Public Service Commission April 16 to build solar energy farms at three different facilities across Northwest Florida in partnership with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force.
Apr 23, 2015
Nelson: Decade-old Gulf oil leak is ‘unacceptable’
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Florida) is pressing federal officials to disclose technical data and other information about a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, after an investigation by The Associated Press revealed evidence that the spill is far worse than a company or government regulators have publicly reported.
Apr 16, 2015
Silver Airways now connects Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward joined representatives from Silver Airways and Visit Pensacola last week at Pensacola International Airport as Silver launched new service between Pensacola and Jacksonville International Airport , with connecting service to Fort Lauderdale.
Apr 16, 2015
5 years after BP spill, industry touts ability to respond
An oil consortium says an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico today can be cleaned up far faster than five years ago when BP’s Macondo well blew out 45 miles off the coast of Louisiana, spawning the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.