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■ Focus on: LEGAL MATTERS, pages 6-10
Attorneys Steven Vasilaros,
left, and Michael Politis,
partners of Port Orange law
firm Vasilaros & Politis.
February 12, 2010
As seen
on TV:
Aggressive ad blitz helps boost
business for area law firm...p. 6
Inside:
Editor’s Notebook:
Mr. Bridgeman (local community banker)
goes to Washington … Page 4
CVB chief to retire:
After 22+ years, Sharon Mock to depart
tourism post in May … Page 4
Real Estate Roundup:
Florida Hospital proceeds with further
buildout of Daytona campus … Page 13
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ON THE COVER: As seen on TV: Aggressive ad blitz
helps boost business for area law firm. Pictured:
attorneys Steven Vasilaros, left, and Michael Politis,
partners of Port Orange law firm Vasilaros & Politis.
The partners credit the increase in their business,
despite the recession, to their decision to spend more,
rather than less, on advertising and marketing efforts,
which include television and radio spots, newspaper
ads, banners on buses and bus stop benches and
billboards. See story on page 6.
■ Focus on: LEGAL MATTERS, pages 6-10
Attorneys Steven Vasilaros,
left, and Michael Politis,
partners of Port Orange law
February 12, 2010
As seen
on TV:
Inside:
Aggressive ad blitz helps boost
business for area law firm...p. 6
Editor’s Notebook:
Mr. Bridgeman (president of Pinnacle
Bank) goes to Washington … Page 4
Hopeful sign:
Photo: David Tucker.
Permit activity picks up for commercial
projects, data shows … Page 12
Real Estate
Roundup:
Florida Hospital proceeds with further
buildout of Daytona campus … Page 13
INSIDE:
Editor’s Notebook: Mr. Bridgeman (local community banker)
goes to Washington....................................................................................................................................Page 4
Briefs: Convention & Visitors Bureau chief Sharon Mock announces
plans to retire, May 4;Stonewood cofounders battling it out in court;
Family Enterprise Center director departs ..................................................................................Page 4
Real Estate Roundup: Florida Hospital proceeding with further buildout
of its new Daytona campus; Apartment complex planned for Palm Coast;
New restaurant chain coming to Daytona Beach......................................................................Page 13
The List: Area’s largest general contractors/commercial
and industrial construction..................................................................................................................Page 14
Calendar of upcoming local business events ..............................................................................Page 15
People on the Move ..................................................................................................................................Page 15
Focus: Legal Matters
As seen on TV: Aggressive ad blitz helps boost business for area law firm ................Page 6
Following safeguards can help businesses avoid wrongful termination
suits, area attorneys say............................................................................................................................Page 7
Holding their own: Responding to recession by shifting focus
paying off for area law firms, execs say............................................................................................Page 8
The List: Area’s largest law firms......................................................................................................Page 10
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February 12, 2010
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Briefs
Convention bureau’s longtime
CEO to retire in May
Sharon Mock has announced plans to
retire in May as CEO of the Daytona Beach
Area Convention and
Visitors Bureau. Mock
marked her 22nd year
at the helm of the
bureau in December.
The bureau employs 19
full-time and 11 part-time
workers.
Mock
Mock’s successor has
not yet been named. Janet Kersey, the bureau’s
executive vice president, has applied for the job,
Mock confirmed.
Mock, who lives in Ormond Beach, described her reasons for retiring: “I’ll be 66 in
May and it seems like a perfect time to begin
what I’m calling ‘my next great adventure.’ … I
have many outside interests that I’ve never had
time to pursue and I look forward to a very
active life after CVB.”
Mock, who said she is proud of the bureau’s
accomplishments, recalled one particularly
memorable event: a spring break television
interview she did with a Japanese television
crew on Easter morning in 1989.
The television crew showed up at the
bureau office after taking a “slight detour” to an
address on West Orange Avenue, instead of East
Orange where the bureau is, said Mock. The
West Orange location was a bar.
“They arrived with broken camera equipment, which had been smashed by a basketball
thrown by a student visitor,” said Mock.
“They were incredulous that any community
would host an event, which appeared to invite
bad behavior.”
Mock said she “did my best tap dance and
tried to put a positive spin on it,” but added: “To
this day I wonder what the people of Japan
thought of Daytona Beach after seeing this
piece on TV.”
Fidanzi out as director
of Stetson’s Family
Enterprise Center
A “retooling” of Stetson University’s Family
Enterprise Center program resulted in the departure of the center’s director, Mario Fidanzi,
and his administrative
assistant Diane Morgan
in mid-January, Stetson
officials confirmed.
Fidanzi, who directed the
center the past three years,
could not be reached for
comment. Fidanzi maintains
Fidanzi
two businesses in Heathrow
called MedTeam Staffing and Fidanzi
Management Consultants.
Peter Begalla, an adjunct professor who has
taken over as Family Enterprise Center program
coordinator, said the center will continue its
plans to produce, in partnership with a
national magazine, a
conference in April for
next-generation family
business owners.
The center is now run
by Begalla, Greg McCann,
a Stetson professor of
family business and
Michelson
business law who has
taken over as the center’s academic
coordinator, and Stuart Michelson, dean of
Stetson’s business school.
“We’re taking a different direction with the
Family Enterprise Center,” said Michelson.
“We’re going to be much more focused on the
academic programs, much more student-focused and our outreach programs will be more
related to what will benefit (Stetson’s) academic
goals and strategies” as opposed to running
conferences that strictly cater to the business
community, with little value to students,
he said.
See BRIEFS p. 12
Opinions
Mr. Bridgeman (local community banker) goes to Washington
D
avid Bridgeman doesn’t need to watch
television or read reports to understand
the devastation the recession is causing on
Main Street.
The Orange City community banker
witnesses those effects daily — sometimes
even in his own office.
The CEO of Pinnacle Bank recalls a local
small business owner recently breaking
down in tears in front of him while explaining how his company’s financial situation had
become so dire he was forced to lay off
several longtime employees.
It’s a story that
Bridgeman has been
hearing from far too
many area businesses
these days. Several
have closed in recent
months, including
Bridgeman
the West Volusia
Chamber of Commerce.
The increasing need to provide loans to
small businesses prompted Pinnacle last year
to become the first community bank based in
the Volusia-Flagler area to receive Troubled
Asset Relief Program funds from the federal
government.
The nearly $4.4 million Pinnacle received
Clayton
Park
Editor’s Notebook
from the TARP Capital Purchase Program
should not be confused with the bailouts the
feds have been doling out to the so-called
too-big-to-fail Wall Street firms and
national banks.
To qualify for TARP funds, community
banks, unlike the banking giants, must prove
they are financially sound.
Pinnacle, in both November and December, was ranked by the U.S. Small Business
Administration as the No. 2 SBA lender in
the North Florida district, which includes
Volusia and Flagler counties, in terms of
dollar amount.
But “unduly harsh” restrictions placed by
federal regulators, including requiring community banks to have higher than reasonable
or necessary risk-weighted capital ratios, are
making it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for banks to continue issuing loans to
small businesses, says Bridgeman.
If President Obama and Congress are
serious about wanting to encourage banks to
give Main Street businesses a helping hand,
they need to ease restrictions on community
banks, says Bridgeman. Making federal funds
available to community banks is good and
fine, but of no use if those funds come with
too many strings attached, he says.
On Feb. 11, Bridgeman will get a chance to
tell members of Congress.
Thanks to a recommendation from
Congressman John Mica (R-Winter Park),
Bridgeman recently received an invitation
from the office of U.S. Rep. Barney Frank to
testify before a joint-meeting of the House
financial services and small business
committees in Washington, D.C.
“They wanted somebody who’s a real
banker down in the trenches that’s been
recently examined by the FDIC … someone
in banking where the rubber meets the road,”
Bridgeman explains.
They certainly found a person who fits
that bill in Bridgeman.
Daytona chamber dinner moved
to Ocean Center
Commerce announced its decision to move
the event to the Ocean Center convention
center because advance ticket sales
were poised to exceed the maximum
1,400-seat capacity for the Hilton Daytona
Beach Oceanfront Resort, the original
intended site.
Blame it on the immense popularity
of the event’s keynote speaker:
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor
and 2008 Republican nominee for
U.S. vice president whose outspoken
views and personal charisma have
made her one of the most sought-after
speakers in the nation, according to
Ted Doran, the chamber’s immediate
past-chairman.
This year’s annual dinner, which will
start at 6 p.m., is expected to set a new
record for attendance, far exceeding
the 1,400 tickets sold a few years ago for a
dinner that featured Rudy Guiliani, the
former New York City mayor, as keynote
speaker.
For tickets to this year’s dinner, contact
the chamber at 386-255-0981 ext. 229.
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Two weeks before its annual dinner on
Feb. 15, the Daytona Regional Chamber of
Clayton Park can be reached at [email protected] or at 386-681-2470.
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6 February 12, 2010
As seen on TV:
Aggressive ad blitz helping to boost business for area law firm, partners say
By Chris Anderson
Business Report Staff
U
nlike most businesses, Port Orange
law firm Vasilaros & Politis has
responded to the worst economic
downturn since the Great Depression by
stepping up the amount of money it
spends on advertising and marketing
each year.
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This year the personal injury law firm
expects to spend $500,000 in advertising –
more than three times the $150,000 it
spent in 2003, when it began running its
television spots.
The firm’s aggressive marketing efforts
— which include radio and newspaper ads,
banners on buses and bus stop benches, and
billboards — has done more than make
Vasilaros & Politis a well-known name in the
Volusia-Flagler area.
It has also resulted in a steady increase in
business for the firm, which now handles
more than 1,000 cases a year.
That growth prompted Vasilaros &
Politis in February 2009 to open a branch
office in Bunnell and, in December, relocate
its southwest Volusia branch from Deltona to
a larger office space in Orange City.
In the past year, Vasilaros & Politis has
added four support workers as well as attorney Mark Matovina, who joined in October.
The firm now has a staff of three attorneys
and 23 support personnel.
“We’re doing well,” said partner Michael
Politis. “We’re getting busier and busier and
doing our best to keep up.”
The firm handles a wide range of cases,
including wrongful death, automobile
accidents, motorcycle accidents, spinal cord
injury, traumatic brain injury, dog bites,
drunk driving-related accidents, and
slip-and-fall accidents.
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If someone is let go based on poor performance, those evaluations can be used against the
employer later to say that the laid-off worker
was, in fact, a fine employee, said Snell.
Companies should also create and
distribute a handbook that clearly states what
is and what isn’t permitted at work and carry
out those rules in a consistent and fair
manner to all employees, said Snell.
Otherwise, if two employees are treated differently for the same offense, someone may
come to the conclusion that they’re
being mistreated, said Snell.
Employers should also be careful when
deciding to offer a severance package to an
employee it is letting go, he said, adding that
the worker might come to the conclusion
that the company has a liability and might be
encouraged to pursue a claim.
Companies can drastically decrease their
chances of being sued by maintaining an
“open line” for complaints from the time
someone is hired to the moment they quit or
are let go, said Hood. “Most people wouldn’t
have sued had they had someone to talk to
about it,” he added.
Judith Lane, a partner with Daytona
Beach law firm Lane a n d Ertl, e c h o e d
H o o d ’s t h o u g h t s : “ T h e r e a l w a y s
n e e d s t o b e c l e a r communication between the employer and employee. If
someone is beinglet go, they need to know
why they are being let go.”
If a company is small and doesn’t have a
professional human resources staff, it should
send senior management to seminars
covering the basics of the most common
employment claims, said Kaney. She added
that companies should consult their
attorneys if they aren’t sure what to do in
regards to employment issues.
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s wrongful termination lawsuits increase across the U.S. as a result of more
companies laying off workers because of the
recession, businesses need to know what
measures they can take to lessen their
chances of going to court, say local attorneys.
Businesses should take several steps to
safeguard themselves by implementing basic
practices from the time they hire someone
to the moment they decide to let that
person go.
Employee lawsuits, especially wrongful
termination cases, are one of the fastestgrowing areas of litigation in the country.
“No employer can afford to ignore its
exposure to employment claims, which
can be expensive, time consuming, and
disruptive to the workplace,” said Elan Kaney,
a partner of the law firm Cobb Cole
in Daytona Beach.
Perhaps the most i m p o r t a n t t h i n g a
company can do to protect itself from
wrongful termination is “document,
document, document,” said David Hood, a
partner with Daytona Beach law firm
Smith Hood Perkins.
Greg Snell, principal owner and attorney
with the Ormond Beach law firm Snell Legal,
agrees. Good documentation can start as
soon as the day you hire someone, he said.
Companies should implement a 90-day
probationary period upon someone’s hiring
that clearly states the employer has the right
to let that person go before and after the
probation period ends, said Snell.
Companies should also be sure to give
t h e i r e m p l oye e s c l e a r a n d a c c u ra t e
performance evaluations, said Snell.
Snell said supervisors quite often fill out
“unwarranted, highly positive evaluations” for
an underperforming employee.
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Holding their own:
Responding to recession by shifting focus paying off for area law firms, execs say
Casey
Chiumento
By Chris Anderson
D
espite the recession, Volusia-Flagler
area law firms overall appear to be
holding their own, with some even seeing
an upswing in business that’s prompting
them to expand.
Their secret? Shifting their firm’s
focus to fit the changing needs of
their clients.
Business has been steady since this
time last year for Daytona Beach-based
Cobb Cole, said CEO John Ferguson.
Ferguson said business is better so far
this year than it was to begin 2009 for his
firm. Cobb Cole is the Volusia-Flagler
area’s largest law firm with 31 attorneys
and 39 support staff.
“We’re happy where we’re headed, but
we’re not where we were in 2008,”
said Ferguson.
Ferguson, who succeeded Lester
Kaney as CEO at the beginning of January,
said his firm responded to the recession
by adjusting some of its practice areas,
including putting a greater emphasis
on workouts to help clients in tight
financial situations.
“We’ve noticed that there are many people out there that need help with creditors, but aren’t necessarily in need of
filing for bankruptcy,” said Ferguson. He
added that his firm favors negotiating
agreements on behalf of its clients with
their creditors to help them avoid having
to file for bankruptcy.
Cobb Cole also encourages its attorneys with lighter workloads to spend that
free time networking with potential
clients at local events.
Jim Rose, a partner in the Daytona
Beach law firm Rice & Rose said business
has been slightly up so far this
Doran
Ferguson
year,compared with the same time
last year.
Though Rice & Rose didn’t take on
bankruptcy-related cases a few years
ago, those types of cases now comprise
5 percent of the firm’s business.
Rice & Rose currently employs 17
people, including five attorneys.
Attorney Greg Snell, owner of
Ormond Beach-based Snell Legal, said
business has been “relatively good” for his
firm. “We’re doing well, but not as good as
in 2007 or 2008,” he said.
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Rose
litigation to fix those mistakes.”
Some area law firms have recently
expanded.
The Palm Coast firm Chiumento
& Guntharp moved into new digs
in November.
The firm moved from its offices off of
Old Kings Road into a 4,700-square-foot
office on the third floor of the newly built,
three-story City Centre mixed-use
building in the Town Center at Palm
Coast development.
Mike Chiumento, a partner of the firm,
“We’re happy where we’re headed, but
we’re not where we were in 2008.”
John Ferguson, CEO, Cobb Cole
Snell Legal employs three attorneys
and four support staffers, including a paralegal hired recently because business is
starting to pick back up, said Snell, who
noted that December was his firm’s
busiest month in 2009 and that January
was fairly busy too.
Business has been exceptionally good
lately for at least one local firm.
“We’ve never been busier,” said Brooks
Casey, partner of the New Smyrna B e a c h
l aw f i r m Wr i g h t & C a s e y, which
launched in January 2009.
Casey said he and his partner, Tom
Wright, saw a void in southeastern Volusia County for attorneys specializing in
business law. So far, the decision to launch
their firm has been paying off, he said.
During the last real estate boom,
“There were a lot of mistakes made by
people in the real estate industry, such as
title companies, developers, attorneys,”
said Casey. “We are now seeing a lot of
and his wife Kris developed City Centre at
a cost of nearly $9 million.
Though the firm’s new office location
is about the same size as the old one, it has
more usable office space, allowing the
firm the room to hire more attorneys and
staff in the future.
The Chiumentos’ son, Michael
Chiumento III, who succeeded his father
as managing partner of Chiumento &
Guntharp at the beginning of 2009, said
his firm’s revenues are keeping pace with
last year so far. Legal matters related to
mortgages, short sales and foreclosures
account for much of the firm’s work load
these days, he said.
The Daytona Beach law firm Doran
Wolfe Ansay & Kundid merged with a
smaller law firm, Blacks, Sims & Birch,
on Dec. 1. The combined firm, now called
Doran Sims Wolfe Ansay Kundid
& Birch, has 15 employees, including
seven attorneys.
Snell
Prior to the merger, Doran Wolfe
Ansay & Kundid had 11 employees,
including five attorneys.
To make room for the expanded staff, Ted
Doran, the firm’s senior partner, paid $1.65
million to acquire a two-story building at
1020 W. International Speedway Blvd.
Doran’s firm in July will move
into the building’s 9,0 0 0 - s q u a re - f o o t
s pa ce o n t h e first floor.
Doran’s firm has occupied a 4,265square-foot space on the eighth floor of
the 444 Seabreeze office building since
1986. Its lease there expires June 30.
Daytona Beach attorneys Judith Lane
and Christene Ertl formed a new firm
called Lane and Ertl, which opened its
doors July 1.
The firm, which specializes in business
law, is located on the ninth floor of the 444
Seabreeze Building, literally next to the
general practice law firm where the two
attorneys previously worked: Smith Hood
Perkins.
Lane was a partner at Smith Hood
Perkins, while Ertl was an associate
attorney with the firm.
The two decided to launch their own
firm after seeing how well they
worked together, said Lane. They also
shared a belief that there was a need in the
area f o r a l a w f i r m t h a t s t r i c t ly
focuses on serving business clients.
Lane said business a t t h e f i r m i s
growing steadily and it recently added its
seventh support staffer to keep up with
the increase in work.
The firm, which currently has only
two attorneys, also plans to hire a third
attorney in the next couple of months,
Lane said.
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Ranked by number of attorneys
Law Firm
Top Local Executive
Address
Phone & Web site
# of Attorneys
Year Est.
Areas of Specialty:
1
CobbCole
John P. Ferguson, President
150 Magnolia Ave., Daytona
Beach 32114
(386) 255-8171
www.CobbCole.com
31
1925
Diverse General Practice
2
Smith, Hood, Perkins, Loucks, Stout,
Bigman & Brock, P.A.
Charles David Hood, Jr.,
Partner
444 Seabreeze Blvd., Suite 900,
Daytona Beach 32118
(386) 254-6875
www.daytonalaw.com
12
1988
N/A
3
Rue & Ziffra PA
Allan L. Ziffra, Managing
Partner
632 Dunlawton Ave., Port Orange
32127
(386) 788-7700
www.rueziffra.com
9
1991
Personal Injury, Worker's
Compensation, Social Security
4
Hassell Moorhead & Carroll
F. Bradley Hassell, President
1616 Concierge Boulevard, Suite
100, Daytona Beach 32117
(386) 238-1357
8
1995
Insurance Defense
Landis Graham French PA
William Sherman
145 E. Rich Ave., DeLand 32724
(386) 734-3451
www.landispa.com
8
1902
N/A
Upchurch, Watson, White, and Max B
John J. Upchurch, CEO,
Managing Partner
125 South Palmetto Avenue,
Daytona Beach 32114
386-253-1560
uww-adr.com
8
1996
Mediation, Arbitration, Special
Magistrates
Doran Sims Wolfe Ansay Kundid & Birch
Theodore Doran, Senior
Partner
Daytona Beach 32118
(386) 253-1111
www.doranlaw.com
7
1994
Family Law, Bankruptcy, Real
Estate
Hill & Ponton PA
Brian D. Hill, Partners
Carol J. Ponton
444 Seabreeze Ave. Ste. 235,
Daytona Beach 32118
386-257-2100
www.hillandponton.com
7
1981
Social Security Disability,
Veterans Disability
(386) 252-1561
www.kvplaw.com
7
1946
Civil Office Practice, Civil Trial
Practice, Construction Law
7
Kinsey, Vincent, Pyle, P. L.
LaRue Williams
150 S. Palmetto Ave., Suite 300,
Doyle Tumbleson, Managers
Daytona Beach 32114
Korey Sweet McKinnon Simpson & Vukelja
Robert Kitt Korey
595 W. Granada Blvd., Suite A,
Ormond Beach 32174
(386) 677-3431
www.ksmsvlaw.com
7
1996
Real Estate, Wills and Probate,
Personal Injury
11
Paul & Elkind PA
Harlan L. Paul, President
142 E. New York Ave., DeLand
32724
(386) 734-3020
www.paulandelkind.com
6
2002
Personal Injury Litigation
Wrongful Death Litigation
Commercial Litigation
12
Chiumento & Guntharp, P.A.
Michael D. Chiumento III,
Managing Partner
Michael D. Chiumento
145 City Place, Ste. 301, Palm
Coast 32164
(386) 445-8900
www.palmcoastlaw.com
5
1973
Real Estate, Estate Planning,
Personal Injury
Damore, Delgado, Romanik & Rawlins
David R. Damore
Aaron D. Delgado, Partners
227 Seabreeze Blvd., Daytona
Beach 32118
386-255-1400
www.communitylawfirm.com
5
2008
Criminal Workers'
Compensation Personal Injury
Heebner, Baggett, Upchurch, & Garthe, P.L.
Peter B. Heebner, Senior
Partner
523 North Halifax Avenue,
Daytona Beach 32118
(386)255-1428
www.lawdaytona.com
5
1975
Construction Lien Law,
Eminent Domain, Business Law
Rice & Rose
Paul E. Rice
James L. Rose, Partners
222 Seabreeze Blvd., Daytona
Beach 32118
(386) 257-1222
www.riceroselaw.com
5
1983
Business Litigation, Real
Estate, Family Law
Crotty & Bartlett, P.A.
Laurence H. Bartlett
Kathleen L Crotty
Michael D. Crotty, Partners
1825 Business Park Blvd.,
Daytona Beach 32114
(386) 274-6395
www.cbklegal.com
4
1999
Estate Planning, Real Estate
Litigation
James & Zimmerman PL
Mark A. Zimmerman
431 E. New York Ave., DeLand
32724
(386) 734-1200
www.jamesandzimmerman.com
4
1980
Worker's Compensation-PI,
Criminal, Family Law
(386) 253-9790
www.kstlaw.com
3
1991
Mediation, Personal Injury,
Wrongful Death
16
18
Kolodinsky Seitz & Tresher
Rick Kolodinsky
647 S. Ridgewood Ave., Daytona
William H. Seitz
Beach 32114
Frederick Tresher, Attorneys
Lane & Ertl
Karen Judith Lane
Christene M. Ertl, Partners
Daytona Beach 32118
(386) 492-4880
www.laneandertl.com
3
2009
Civil Litigation, Business
Ownership Disputes, Real
Estate, Intellectual Property
Snell Legal
Gregory D. Snell, Managing
Attorney
160 E. Granada Boulevard,
Ormond Beach 32176
(386) 677-3232
www.SnellLegal.com
3
2004
Business Law, Business
Litigation
Vasilaros & Politis, P.A.
Michael Politis, President
730 Dunlawton Avenue, Port
Orange 32127
(386)767-0911
www.JusticeForTheInjured.net
3
1993
Personal Injury, Criminal
Defense
(386) 253-7865
www.whitedlawfirm.com
3
1983
DUI, Criminal Defense
Whited Law Firm
Olive Ave., Daytona
Fleming K. Whited, III, Owner 630 N. Wild
Beach 32118
The law firms list is ranked by number of attorneys. Firms listed with an equal number of attorneys are secondarily listed alphabetically. Only firms that responded to our email survey
request for information are included. For more information, contact the Business Report at [email protected].
B 8 attorneys in Volusia County and 27 total including offices in Maitland, FL and Birmingham, AL.
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Serving You
Focusing on the founders’ vision, Cobb Cole encourages collaboration among attorneys, personal attention to
client demands, and maintaining a thorough level of knowledge in the most sought after areas of the law.
The firm offers representation in areas including:
• Administrative Law
• Business and Corporate Practice
• Civil Litigation
• Commercial Finance
• Construction Law
• Education Law
• Employment and Labor Law
• Environmental Law
• Estate Planning and Probate
• Family Law
• Franchise Law
• Guardianships
• Internet and Technology Law
• Land Use and Development
• Media and First Amendment Law
• Real Estate
• Regulatory Matters
• Right of Privacy
• Sunshine Law
• Tax Practice and Planning
• Trademark and Copyright
Serving the Community
The following area organizations are those to which members of the Cobb Cole team donate personal time and
resources in service as chairperson, president, legal counsel, advisor, committee member or volunteer.
Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber of Commerce • Ormond Main Street • Daytona Beach Partnership Association • Executive Women’s Council • Volusia Home Builders Association
• 1000 Friends of Florida – Litigation Committee • Florida Coast to Coast • Bethune-Cookman University Board of Directors • Florida State University Foundation • Daytona Beach
International Festival • Civic League of the Halifax Area • Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce • Daytona Beach Rotary Club • Oceanside Rotary Club • Ormond Beach West
Rotary Club • DeLand Breakfast Rotary Club • Kiwanis Club of Downtown Daytona Beach • Seaside Music Theater • Daytona Museum of Arts & Sciences • Ormond Art Museum
• First Amendment Foundation (appointed by Governor) • Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District • Special Population Activities and Recreational Council
• Volusia Land Trust • Volusia Vision • Leadership Daytona • Leadership DeLand • Leadership Southeast Volusia • Smart Growth Initiative Steering Committee • Volusia County Association for
Responsible Development • DeLand High School Business Partners • Halifax Fish Associates • Halifax Area Trade Council • Daytona Beach Community Foundation, Inc.
• Junior League • Easter Seals of Volusia & Flagler Counties • Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Volusia County • American Red Cross • Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida
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Association • Homeless Assistance Corporation – STAR Center • Volusia-Flagler Association for Women Lawyers • Real Property Council of Volusia County • House Next Door
Serving You. Serving the Community.
150 Magnolia Ave. Daytona Beach FL 32114 - 386.255.8171
351 E. New York Ave. Ste. 200, Deland FL 32724 - 386.736.7700
www.cobbcole.com
For additional information or questions regarding this message please contact Heather Vargas, Partner, Cobb Cole.
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BRIEFS from p. 4
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE VISION
Justice For All
Justice wasn’t meant for just some. Justice was meant for all. The Justice For
All campaign provides equal access to justice for more people with critical legal
needs; the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, victims of domestic violence and
working poor families with children. Our thanks go to the members and friends
of the legal community for making generous gifts to Justice For All.
VISIONARY OF JUSTICE - GIVING $100,000 OR MORE
Jay Bond
Robert Bowling
Scott Cichon
W. Warren Cole, Jr.
John Ferguson
Rhoda Bess Goodson*
Andrew Grant
Bruce Hanna
Thomas Hart
Harold Hubka
Elan R. Kaney
Jonathan Kaney, III
Jonathan Kaney, Jr.
J. Lester Kaney
Andrea Kurak
Thomas Leek
Katherine J. Miller
Robert Merrell, III
Michael P. Olivari
Kelly Parsons
Joshua Pope
Maja S. Sander
Leanne Marie Siegfried
Michael Sznapstajler
James A. Stowers
Heather Bond Vargas
C. Allen Watts
Mark Watts
Kathryn D. Weston
Michael J. Woods
CHAMPION OF JUSTICE - GIVING $10,000 OR MORE
(or $1,000 or more per attorney per year)
SNELL LEGAL
PHILLIP H. ELLIOTT, JR.
BROWN & BROWN INSURANCE
Joseph M. Mason
William Abbuehl
CHOBEE EBBETS
CHANFRAU & CHANFRAU
Judith Thompson
Peter Heebner
Virginia Townes
David Vedder
ADVOCATE OF JUSTICE - GIVING $5,000 OR MORE
(or $500 or more per attorney per year)
Rice & Rose
The Florida Bar Foundation
Brighthouse Networks
Sands White & Sands
Christopher Quarles Eduardo J. Quinones Susan Dean Michael J. Politis
Steven T. Vasilaros Leonard Marinaccio III Amy E. Goodblatt Joseph D. Krol
Stacy Eckert
Stephen R. Ponder
James G. Hahl
Mark Zimmerman
Michael G. Howard John A. Thompson Clay Henderson Mary Jane Henderson
Siobhan C. O’Donnell R. Wesley Bradshaw Michael Mountjoy
GUARDIANS OF JUSTICE - GIVING $1,000 OR MORE
(or $350 or more per attorney per year)
Larry L. Adams
Hon. Sharon Atack
Timothy S. Babiarz
Kim E. Bouck
Jeffrey Brock
Lloyd Eugene Brown, Jr.
Richard A. Burt , Sr
Richard A. Burt II
Thomas E. Caldwell
Paul Caldwell
Darren Coleman
Charlie Collins
Monroe A. Coogler, Jr.
Lawrence H. Bartlett
Robert J. Corcoran
Hector R. Cuprill, Jr.
Steven DeLaroche
C. John De Salvo
Raymond M. Donadio
Charles Early
Clayton K. Ellis
Andrew K. E. Findley
Carly Renee Fishpaugh
Timothy A. Frantz
Louis Gaitanis
Larry Glinzman
Mitchell A. Gordon
Luis R. Gracia
Katherine L. Gray
Anthony J. Grezik
Henry Haenftling, Jr.
Gregory Harrell
Christy F. Harris
Daniel Hicks
Donell Hicks
Charles D. Hood, Jr.
Daniel H. Hunt II
Daniel H. Jones
Michael Kelton
R. Colt Kirkland
Fred J. Krim
Grant Lacerte
Carolyn Lawrence
Michele Lieberman
William Livingston
William Loucks
Archie Lowry
Sandra Manjasek
Janet Martinez
Larry Metz
Beverly Morris
Patricia R. Mueller
Kelly Musleh
Victor Musleh, Jr.
Nneka Nwakoby
Michael S. Orfinger
MaryEllen Osterndorf
Harlan Paul
John D. Rue
Edward Rue
Marianne Salcedo
Kimberly Sands
Tura Schnebly
Richard A. Schwartz
Glenn Shuman
Dorothy Sims
Harold Southard
Lena R. Smith
Elizabeth Stakenborg
Andrea V. Stephens
Gary Summers
David L. Sweat
Teresa J. Thornton-Hill
William L. Townsend, Jr.
Michael Stefen Tuma
John J. Upchurch
Claude Ashton Van Hook III
Denise Vanness
Kathryn Vaughan
William J. Voges
Benjamin Wallace
Daniel Wallace
Keith Warnock
Raymond M. Warren
Dennis M. Whalen
Terrence M. White
Fleming Whited, III
J. Herbert Williams
Allan L. Ziffra
*Justice For All Chair
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida
128 Orange Avenue, Suite 30
Daytona Beach FL 32114
386-255-6573 Ext. 2250
Stonewood restaurant chain’s
cofounder sues partner
Doug Sullivan, CEO and cofounder of
Ormond Beach-based Stonewood Holdings LLC,
the parent company for the Stonewood Grill &
Tavern and Peach Valley Cafe restaurant
chains, recently sued the
company’s other cofounder,
Ormond Beach entrepreneur
L. Gale Lemerand.
The suit, filed in the seventh judicial circuit court in
Volusia County, also names
Tim Curtis, chairman of the
Lemerand
board at Stonewood Holdings,
and Christian Jenny, Lemerand’s personal
assistant, as defendants.
The suit accuses Lemerand, a past-chairman of the board, for, among other things, misusing his position for personal financial gain, and
for violating his noncompete agreement by recently teaming up with a new partner, Brad
Disch, to open a restaurant to compete with
Stonewood Grill. The new restaurant is called The
Dish Tavern and Grille.
Lemerand in an e-mail to the media
described his present role with Stonewood
Holdings as a major investor, lender and
AD BLITZ from p. 6
The firm’s seemingly ubiquitous ads are
only part of the reason for its success, said
Politis. “If we don’t do a good job, word of
mouth spreads fast and the ads won’t matter
if we have a bad reputation,” he added.
While most of the firm’s clients are from
the Volusia-Flagler area, some come from as
far away as Orlando and Jacksonville and
even beyond, the partners say.
“We’ve built a reputation,” said partner
Steven Vasilaros. “Many of our clients are referred to us from past clients. Sometimes,
people will call us from another state and say
their relative that lives in Daytona Beach told
them to call us.”
As a kid growing up in Steubenville,
Ohio, Vasilaros said he got his first taste
of law watching his friend’s father, a wellknown trial attorney in the area at the time,
in action in the courtroom.
“It was the best show I’d ever seen,” said
Vasilaros. “That was it for me.”
After earning his law degree from Ohio
Northern University, Vasilaros became a
partner of a law firm in Steubenville, where
he later also became the city’s police
prosecutor and acting city attorney.
Vasilaros decided to move to Daytona
Beach in 1986 to be closer to family. He joined
the firm now known as Becks & Becks as an
associate attorney, where he forged a friendship with Politis, a law student at the time
who worked for the firm as a clerk during his
summer breaks.
member of the board of managers.
Lemerand stated that he and the other defendants “deny all of Mr. Sullivan’s allegations of
wrongdoing.” Curtis is working with the board “to
expeditiously resolve this dispute,” Lemerand
wrote, adding: “In the interim, the board has
taken steps to ensure that the company’s day-today operations will not be interrupted.”
Enterprise Flagler
event draws sizeable turnout
More than 75 people, including government
officials and business leaders, attended the firstever quarterly luncheon for Enterprise Flagler,
the public/private economic development arm
for Flagler County, on Jan. 20. The purpose of the
event was to inform the public about Enterprise
Flagler’s efforts to boost the local economy.
Those efforts include a plan to designate
more than a dozen properties in the county as
“brownfields” — i.e., areas such as abandoned or
underused industrial or commercial sites that
could potentially be redeveloped, with the aid of
economic incentives. Gregory Rawls, executive
director of Enterprise Flagler, said the county
could use incentives to encourage redevelopment of those properties, which would add jobs
and generate tax revenues.
■
Politis said he was inspired to pursue a
career in law by his family’s attorney,
Nick George, who still practices today
with the law firm Ossinsky & George in
Daytona Beach.
After earning his law degree from Nova
University in Fort Lauderdale, Politis began
working for the state attorney’s office in
Daytona Beach, first as a misdemeanor
prosecutor, then as a felony prosecutor, and
finally chief of homicide.
In 1993, Vasilaros asked Politis to join his
firm, then known as the Law Office of Steven
T. Vasilaros. The firm adopted its current
name, Vasilaros & Politis, with the addition
of Politis as partner.
The firm moved in 2007 from its original
offices on Halifax Avenue in Daytona Beach
to its present location in Port Orange.
The two partners say their similar
business philosophies and professional
backgrounds have played a big part in their
firm’s success.
“We both learned how to be sensitive to
clients while we were prosecutors,” said Politis. “We’d have to explain how someone’s
loved one got killed and explain to them the
process of the law and steps of the trial.”
Added Vasilaros: “It made sense for us
to have a firm together. We believe in the
same things. We also think and work
the same way.”
■
Florida Hospital proceeding with a further buildout of its new Daytona campus
C
onstruction of a $15 million cancer
treatment facility is underway at
Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center
in Daytona Beach.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the
future one-story, 31,652-square-foot Cancer
Institute was held Jan. 28. Construction is set
to be completed this fall.
The cancer treatment facility will be the
third building at the hospital’s new campus,
located on the west side of Williamson
Boulevard, a half-mile south of Granada
Boulevard.
The hospital, formerly known as Florida
Hospital Ormond Memorial, moved from
Ormond Beach to Daytona Beach in July
2009. The campus currently has two buildings: a 12-story, 718,000-square-foot tower
that houses the hospital and a five-story,
137,697-square-foot medical office building.
Birmingham, Ala.-based Robins &
Morton is the general contractor for the
Cancer Institute building.
Klima Weeks Civil Engineering is the
project’s engineer. HuntonBrady Architects
of Orlando is the project’s designer.
When it opens, the Cancer Institute is
expected to employ up to 37 people, said
hospital spokeswoman Michelle Lynch.
T h e h o s p i t a l ’s c a n ce r t re a t m e n t
department currently employs 30 people
and is located at its old campus at 875
Sterthaus Ave. in Ormond Beach.
New restaurant chain
coming to Daytona
Rendering courtesy Florida Hospital Memorial System
Artist’s conception of Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center’s future Cancer Institute building.
Chris
Anderson
Real Estate Roundup
Though the hospital initially planned to
sell its old campus, the 26-acre property has
been taken off the market temporarily
because of the real estate downturn, said
Lynch, who added: “We are continuing
discussions with potential buyers.”
The hospital is in negotiations with a
company to build and operate a wellness
center at its new campus that would offer a
gym, classrooms, physical therapy and
re h a b o ff i ce s , a n a u d i to r i u m , a n d a
daycare for children of its employees.
Apartment complex planned
for Palm Coast
Photo: Chris Anderson
Construction of the Cancer Institute is
underway at the campus for Florida Hospital
Memorial Medical Center.
A Winter Park development group is
planning an apartment complex along State
Road 100 in Palm Coast.
Atlantic Housing Partners, doing business as Beach Village at Palm Coast LLC,
plans to build a 106-unit apartment complex
on the north side of State Road 100, just west
of the newly built, Publix grocery-anchored
Beach Village shopping center that is just
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Construction is slated to begin soon, said
Scott Culp, executive vice president of
Atlantic Housing Partners.
The development company is also
building Taylor Place, a similar 106-unit
complex in DeLand along Taylor Road.
Construction of that project is scheduled to
be completed in May.
The company’s other local developments include Cape Morris Cove and Windy
Pines in Daytona Beach, Saxon Trace in
Orange City, Hunters Creek in DeLand,
Sunrise Point in Port Orange, and Newport
Sound in New Smyrna Beach.
An outparcel building at International
Speedway Square shopping center in
Daytona Beach, which up until November
housed a Buca Di Beppo Italian restaurant,
has been demolished to make way for a
future BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse.
The location will be the first in the VolusiaFlagler area for the California-based BJ’s chain.
The Buca Di B eppo eatery on
International Speedway Boulevard had been
in business since 1999.
The Business Report was unable to reach
officials with the Minneapolis-based Buca
Di Beppo restaurant chain for comment.
Construction of the BJ’s Restaurant &
Brewhouse eatery is scheduled to begin in
the coming weeks, said Greg Levin, a
spokesman for the Huntington, Calif.-based
restaurant chain. Levin said his chain’s
restaurants are typically 8,500 square feet in
size, with seating for about 280 people. The
chain has 90 restaurants, including locations
in Gainesville, Kissimmee and Orlando. ■
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Product Liability | Boating Accidents | Criminal Defense
Corrected List*
General Contractors/Commercial & Industrial Construction
Ranked by total value of current projects (permitted, under construction or completed in 2010) in Volusia and Flagler counties.
Company
Top Local Executive
1
BE&K Building Group B
N/A
2
EMJ
Ted Lambert, Project
Manager
3
Vanacore
Vanacore Construction Inc. ScottTodd
Vanacore, Owners
4 S.E. Cline Construction, Inc.
Samuel Cline
5
Hall Construction Co Inc
Dennis Hall, President
6
Peck & Associates
Construction
Edwin Peck, President
7 T.G. Glass & Associates, Inc.
Thomas Glass,
President
8
Freese Construction
Bill Roach, General
Manager
9
M. L. Underwood
Construction, Inc.
Mike Underwood,
President
10
ConTech Restoration &
Construction of Winter
Gardens
Greg Bruce, V.P. of
Operations
11
Commercial Construction, Gary Roberts, President
Inc.
12
Edifice, Inc.
N. Eric Laster,
President/CEO
13
Chinelli Design Build
Michael Chinelli,
President
14
A&T Builders, Inc.
Paul Traider, President
Tom Arnold, Vice
President
Co., John Merrell, President
15 J.H. Merrell Construction
Inc.
16
Michael C Construction
Michael Luddeni,
President
17
Billco Construction, Inc.
William Pageau
18
19
Morash, Project
Silverking Contracting, Inc. Jeremy Manager
Hammock Communities
Rich Smith
Address
2000 International
Park, Birmingham,
AL 35243
2034 Hamilton
Place Blvd.,
Chattanooga, TN
37421
1293 N. US Hwy 1,
Suite 3, Ormond
Beach 32174
18 Utility Drive,
Palm Coast 32137
902 S. Nova Road,
Daytona Beach
32114
2430 S. Atlantic
Ave. Ste F,
Daytona Beach
Shores 32118
100 La Costa Ln.
Ste 140, Daytona
Beach 32114
5401 South
Kirkman Rd. Ste.
610, Orlando
32819
310 Wilmette Ave.
Suite 5, Ormond
Beach 32174
700 W. Plant Str.,
Winter Garden
34787
624 N. Wild Olive
Ave., Daytona
Beach 32118
1401 West
Morehead Street,
Charlotte 28208
1019 Town Center
Dr. Ste. 102 ,
Orange City 32763
925 Beville Road,
Ste. 1, South
Daytona 32119
2430 S. Atlantic
Ave., Suite B,
Daytona Beach
Shores 32118
530 Ridgewood
Ave., Holly Hill
32117
1010 Palm View
Dr., South Daytona
32114
300 S. Madison
Ave. Ste. 4,
Clearwater 33756
267 Old Moody
Blvd., Palm Coast
32164
Phone
Web site
Total Value of Current
Projects
Number of Current
Projects Permitted or
Underway
Names of Projects
(704) 551-2700
$430,000,000
1
Daytona Live!
(423) 855-1550
www.emjcorp.com
$150,000,000
1
The Pavillion at Port Orange
(386) 672-8285
www.vanacorehomes.com
$47,800,000
6
Village Business Centre, Forest Glen, Ormond Station
(386) 446-6444
www.clineconstruction.net
$18,243,018
27
Causeway Park Boat Ramps Old Kings Road Widening
Lehigh Rail Trail
(386) 252-2526
www.hallconstruction.com
$16,265,000
7
Vince Carter's Restaurant , Port Orange Public Safety,
Volusia Teachers Organization Office Building
(386) 255-7336
www.peckcompanies.com
$15,400,000
6
Pain Holding Medical Callalisa Villas Port Orange
Radiology Building D
(386) 274-1422
$15,000,000
1
Raydon Corporation
(407) 373-6000
www.freeseco.com
$14,300,000
1
Victoria Medical Park, DeLand
(386) 672-6651
www.mlunderwoodconstruction.com
$6,000,000
3
AO Precision Manufacturing Bldg., Bethune Cookman
University Athletic Training Center, Country Side
Medical Offices
(407) 905-4662
www.contechconst.com
$6,000,000
2
Royal Floridian
(386) 238-1570
www.commercialconstructiondaytona.com
$5,323,698
13
LaQuinta Inn & Suites, Port Orange Bert Fish Medical
Center CT Renovation/Replacement Chabad
Lubavitch of Greater Daytona
(704) 332-0900
edificeinc.com
$4,712,000
1
Epic-Palm Coast 14-Plex, Palm Coast, FL
(386) 775-8888
www.chinellidesignbuild.com
$4,200,000
3
Land, Building, & Beyond; Daytona Heart Deland,
LLC; Mid Florida Infectious Diseases Specialists
(386) 767-0055
$1,665,000
2
Ormond by the Sea Oceanfront Park Center Point
Business Park Health Care Offices
(386) 253-0471
$1,500,000
4
Edgewater Alliance Church Sunrise Aviation/MAC
Charter 33 Unit T-Hangars and 4 Unit Box Box Hangar
South Nova Business Park
(386) 257-1068
www.michael-c-construction.com
$1,400,000
3
Global Prayer Center
(386) 322-2123
www.billco.com
$1,000,000
2
Flagler County Historic Courthouse, New Smyrna
Beach Middle School Campus
(727) 446-7944
www.silverkingcontracting.com
$500,000
1
Dollar General Port Orange
386-437-4699
www.TheLighthouseProperties.com
$200,000
1
Airport Corporate Center
The General Contractors/Commercial & Industrial Construction list published in the Jan. 29, 2010 issue of the Volusia/Flagler Business Report contained errors in some of the listings that
were the result of a technical glitch. This page is a corrected version of that list, which is ranked by the total value of projects that are permitted, currently under construction, or recently
completed in 2010 in Volusia and Flagler counties. This corrected list also contains corrections and additions reported to the Business Report since the publication of the original list. The
listings are based on company reports and various sources. Not all contractors with current projects are included. For further information, contact the Business Report via email at
[email protected].
B A site plan for the Daytona Live! project has been approved. Only one of the planned building has been completed thus far.
People on the Move
Gardner
Baxter
Price
Chait
Business organizations
Healthcare
The Flagler County Chamber of
Commerce has hired an employee and
promoted another:
Christine Gardner has joined the chamber as information specialist. Gardner previously was a lender/investor coordinator
with Family First Mortgage in Palm Coast.
Brittany Baxter has been promoted
from information specialist to publications
assistant.
Anita Chait has joined Florida Hospital
DeLand as an obstetrics and gynecology
physician. Chait also recently opened the
Women’s Wellness Center in Deltona.
Chait previously worked as a physician at
the Women’s Center for Ob & Gyn in
Rutherford, N.J.
Florida Hospital Flagler has hired an
employee and promoted another:
Noseworthy
Toupin
Noseworthy previously was director of food
services at Florida Hospital Orlando.
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Duane Price has been hired as director
of the hospital’s cancer institute. Price
previously was director of clinical
effectiveness at Florida Hospital Memorial
Medical Center.
Ann Toupin has been promoted from
surgical services coordinator to assistant
director of surgical services.
How to submit items:
The Business Report welcomes submissions of announcements about your company’s recent new hires,
staff promotions and industry and/or community awards.
E-mail announcements and photographs (individual
headshots only; 300 dpi preferred) to [email protected].
People on the Move announcements should include
name and new title of the person, the company’s name,
and the city where that person works or will work. Please
include the person’s previous company and title.
Shawn Noseworthy has joined Florida
Hospital Memorial Medical Center in
Daytona Beach as director of food services.
Calendar Upcoming local business events
February
Thursday 11
Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce,
business after-hours, 5-7 p.m. at Chases on the Beach,
3401 S. Atlantic Ave., New Smyrna Beach. RSVP: 428-2449.
Friday 12
Thursday 18
West Volusia Business Connection, WOW lunch,
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Gustoso Pizza & Grill, 481 Deltona
Blvd., Deltona. Info: 574-6693.
Holly Hill Chamber of Commerce, ambassadors
meeting, 4 p.m. at chamber, 1056 Ridgewood Ave., Holly
Hill. Info: 255-7311.
Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce, quarterly
networking breakfast, 7:30-9 a.m. at Oceanside Country Club,
75 N. Halifax Drive, Ormond Beach. Info: 677-3454.
Monday 15
Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce,
annual dinner, 6 p.m., Ocean Center, 101 N. Atlantic Ave.,
Daytona Beach. Keynote speaker: former Alaska
governor and Republican vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin. Cost: $100 members; $150 nonmembers.
RSVP: 255-0981.
Tuesday 16
Flagler County Chamber of Commerce, business after-hours, 5:30-7 p.m. at Flagler Auditorium, 5500
E. Highway 100, Palm Coast. Cost: members $5; non-members $10. Info: 437-0106.
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE),
workshop on surviving difficult financial times, 6 p.m. at
Daytona Beach International Airport. Info: 255-6889.
Daytona Beach Young Professionals Group,
networking social, 6-8 p.m. at Arena Sports Cafe, 180 N.
Beach St., Daytona Beach. Cost: members $5; non-members $10. Info: [email protected]
coffee social, 7:30-9 a.m. at chamber, 115 Canal St.,
New Smyrna Beach. Info: 428-2449.
Volusia Manufacturers Association, materials
division breakfast, 7:45-9 a.m. at Daytona Beach International Airport, Volusia Room. Speaker: Chris Kearney, Orlando assistant service center manager for UPS Freight.
Topic: “Are You Getting the Best Rates and Service From
Your Carrier?” Cost: $18. RSVP: 673-0505.
Wednesday 17
Port Orange/South Daytona Chamber of
Commerce, sunrise business forum, 7:45 a.m. at chamber, 3431 Ridgewood Ave., Port Orange. Info: 761-1601.
Friday 19
Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce, quarterly
networking breakfast, 7:30-9 a.m. at Sunset Harbo Yacht Club,
861 Ballough Road, Daytona Beach. Info: 677-3454.
Tuesday 23
West Volusia Business Connection, networking
breakfast, 8-9:30 a.m. at Integra Landings at Ivey Lake, 1112
Integra Landings Drive, Orange City. Info: 888-494-0125.
Ned Harper, director of the Small Business Development
Center. Info: 490-4606.
How to submit items:
Volusia Manufacturers Association, general
membership meeting, 5:30 p.m. at Daytona Beach International Airport. Speaker: Tom O’Neal of University of
Central Florida. Cost: $25. RSVP: 673-0505.
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E-mail notices of upcoming business events for possible inclusion
in the Calendar at least 30 days in advance of the event to
[email protected]. Events must be held either in Volusia or Flagler
counties and must be of a business nature.
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