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Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) President Mike Martin has named Katherine “Kitty” Green as the vice president for advancement and executive director of the FGCU Foundation. Green has served as president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties since 2010. She begins her new role at FGCU June 24. “I consulted with a variety of community and…
Metro Forecasting Models, a high-tech firm that provides accurate and reliable forecasts for commercial demand, population growth and housing demand for communities nationwide, announced that Chief Executive Officer David H. Farmer has recently been recognized by the Realtors Land Institute (RLI) as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the field of demographics and land planning.…
Enterprise Truck Rental continued its North American growth with the opening of more than two dozen new locations so far in fiscal year 2019, making it one of the fastest growing truck rental companies in the industry. That includes a new location in Fort Myers. The openings are a part of a broader growth strategy that provides short-…
The Lee Board of County Commissioners awarded a contract to create an artificial reef at Chris Koepfer’s ARC Reef Site using a $120,000 grant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The contract awarded to Kelly Brothers is for the creation of an artificial reef using 1,000 tons of donated concrete or limestone within the Chris…
Accounting for Profitability, which provides CPA services, financial and business consulting to clients primarily in Southwest Florida, and Clearwater Business Advisers, a national mid-market general management consulting firm based in Tampa, signed an agreement to provide expert business advice to companies in the Tampa-Naples corridor. Typically, large regional and global brand-name consulting firms are unaffordable…
Michele Smith, a mortgage loan specialist with 12 years of experience, recently joined Charlotte State Bank & Trust’s professional residential lending team. She is based at the bank’s Peachland office, 24163 Peachland Blvd., Port Charlotte. Smith has lived and worked in Southwest Florida since 1980. She began her real estate lending career in Sarasota in…
Ammie Black has been named Human Resources Manager for the Life Plan community of Cypress Cove at HealthPark Florida. A former associate in their Human Resources department for the past six years, Ms. Black is responsible for the community’s daily operations of the human resource office and providing management of employee relations, recruitment, retention, professional…
Hope Healthcare is hosting a series of Recruitment Open House events this month for full- and part-time positions in Lee, Charlotte, Collier, Hendry and Glades counties. Open Houses are scheduled Thursday, May 9 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Joanne’s House at Hope Hospice, 27200 Imperial Parkway in Bonita Springs; Saturday, May 18 from 9…
Alta Resources Corp., a global customer service outsourcing company supporting Fortune 500 companies, released plans to build a new location at Skyplex on Paul J. Doherty Parkway in Fort Myers. The new $21-million, three-story, 90,000-square-foot office building is made possible in part through partnership and coordination with Lee County, Lee County Port Authority and Enterprise…
ECS Florida, LLC is pleased to announce that Matt Robertson, EI has joined the Fort Myers team as Senior Project Manager of our Geotechnical Group. He brings 6 years of experience in geotechnical engineering including subsurface investigation, interpretation and analysis of field and laboratory data, deep foundation load testing and quality assurance, and geotechnical…