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fter 2 1/2 years of
community workshops,
the Plum Creek timber
company has submitted a longterm master plan for nearly 61,000
acres in Alachua County.
Elizabeth Hamilton
The company, which owns a total of 65,000
acres, is proposing to develop 11,000 acres
between Newnan’s Lake and Hawthorne
to include up to 14 million square feet of
commercial space and up to 10,500 homes.
The company plans to place 23,000 acres in
conservation while retaining timber rights,
on top of the 24,000 acres already in conservation. Smaller allotments are earmarked
for agriculture and rural land. County staff
will review the plan before sending it to
the county planning commission, county
commission, state and back to the county
commission for a final vote in about a year.
Jamillah Jordan leads a small group discussion at the Martin Luther
King Jr. Multipurpose Center in February 2013 during the Envision
Alachua community workshop regarding the long-term plans for Plum
Creek .
Honors: Infinite Energy was named Best Overall Large
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Erica Brough
Doug Finger
Chad French, president and CEO of PeerFly.
Business and PeerFly was Best Overall Small Business at the
Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year
Awards. Infinite Energy has 370 employees and provides natural
gas services in four states and electricity in Texas. The company has
been named one of the best companies to work for by Florida
Trend magazine in four of the past five years. PeerFly has 12
employees and provides internet marketing to about 2,000 clients
in 150 countries after 4 1/2 years in business. Other winners were:
Mindtree, International Business Award; RTI Surgical, Best
Business Expansion; Mobiquity, Best New Business; neutral7
design group, Best Minority-Owned Business; ProActive Tax and
Accounting, Leading Women’s Enterprise; and Peaceful Paths,
Best Nonprofit. … Jim Painter of Painter Masonry was named
Builder of the Year by the Florida Home Builders
Association for his efforts to train young people in
construction trades and his advocacy from Tallahassee
to Washington, D.C., on behalf of the construction
industry. Painter is the first mason contractor to win
Painter
the award and the fourth winner from Gainesville,
following George Kirkpatrick Jr. in 1981, A.W. Fletcher in 1982
and Barry Rutenberg in 1994.
Emilie Doan paints at a camp
for kids at Corks & Colors.
Open: Consolidated
Moving & Transport
LLC, www.
consolidatedmove.com;
Five Bar, 104 S Main St.
Zoës Kitchen, 3730 SW
Archer Rd., No. 200
Relocated: Corks
& Colors to Westgate
Regency Center, 3401 W.
University Ave.; Tucker
Chiropractic to 4041 NW
37th Place, Suite A.
Big deals: Prioria Robotics was awarded $4.5 million worth of
Tasting room at Swamp Head Brewery.
Erica Brough
Beer and (e)cigarettes: Swamp Head Brewery and
Ovale USA, an e-cigarette distributor, recently announced that
they will be constructing new buildings as part of expansion plans.
Since Swamp Head’s current brewery might be demolished to make
way for an Interstate 75 overpass, the company is taking advantage
of the situation and doubling its space with a new 13,300-squarefoot brewery and tasting room off of Southwest 42nd Avenue near
Alley Katz Lanes. Construction is scheduled to start in April.
Ovale, which distributes e-cigs to 230 stores nationwide from a
small Gainesville retail store, plans to build a 7,500-square-foot
warehouse in the 55th Place Industrial Park off of U.S. 441 and start
manufacturing flavored liquid nicotine locally.
contracts to produce 36 small unmanned aircrafts and 12 ground
control stations for the U.S. Army. CEO Bryan da Frota says the
contracts will allow the company to meet its goal of creating 40 new
jobs over four years as part of its application for tax rebates. …
Gainesville-based Foresight Construction Group landed a contract
that could be worth up to $4 million to provide construction services
for a year at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. …
Paracosm has secured $800,000 in private and public funding to
advance its 3D modeling and navigation software. The funding
includes $500,000 from private investors and a $300,000 match from
the Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public
Research. … Anamar Environmental Consulting was awarded a
10-year contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to monitor tide, current and water level data in U.S.
waters for use by the maritime industry. ... Spin Chill raised $40,000
— four times its goal — through a crowdfunding campaign at
Kickstarter.com to produce its beer-chilling inventions. The Chill Bit
and Beerouette attach to cans and bottles to spin beer in ice water
and provide a cool drink in 30 to 60 seconds without the foamy side
effects. The inventions were created by University of Florida
mechanical engineering students Trevor Abbott and Ty Parker.
Hired: Bob Kloepfer, 56, was named president of
Environmental Consulting and Technology, leading a firm with
more than 200 employees in 19 offices nationwide, including 45 at its
Gainesville headquarters. In his last position, he was global director of
environment and energy for a 1,200-person division of London-based
WSP Environment and Energy.
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