iCAMR CEO: ‘Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center will be a think tank for small and big businesses’ Chester Kennedy didn’t pay attention when the initial rumblings began about Osceola County and the University of Central Florida wanting to create a high-tech, smart sensor facility. But that changed once the former Lockheed Martin Corp. executive noticed how it could greatly impact…
What began as a two-story, 30-bed hospital about two and a half years ago in Osceola County is now a four-story, 76-bed hospital. Poinciana Medical Center on Nov. 17 opened two more floors and 46 new private-patient beds across 40,000 square feet. The hospital, owned by HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA), announced its plans for the $26 million expansion in June…
Air Flamenco, a mainstay of air travel in the Caribbean, will open a satellite base of operations at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) early next year. Rubén Torres, who founded the Puerto Rico-based airline in 1976, now lives in Kissimmee and has a deal to co-locate with Quantem, a fixed-base operator at the municipal airport. The airline…
October 15, 2015 (Kissimmee, FL) -The City of Kissimmee’s Economic Development Office announced today that Infinity Medical Engineering will open their business in the City by the end of this year. Infinity Medical Engineering, a medical device research, development and manufacturing company, will open at 301 Church Street, near historic downtown Kissimmee, and will house a 10,000…
New hotels are just one element of the longterm master plan for Osceola Heritage Park. Don Miers, the county’s director of sports facilities, told GrowthSpotter that for months, county planners have “been dabbling with different concepts of what a master plan could look like.” The 168-acre park on U.S. 192 houses the 11,000-seat arena, the Houston Astros training…
Kissimmee-based developer George Chen should break ground within a few weeks on a $6 million winery, botanical gardens and event space in partnership with Florida’s Island Grove Wine Company, an attraction he hopes oenophiles and nature-lovers will flock to while visiting the W192 tourism corridor. Based on 11 acres on the northeast corner of Funie…
PBS Newshour Valencia College and UCF Featured on PBS NewsHour for Efforts to Help Low-Income Students Finish College
The smart sensor project currently underway in Osceola County is big and some call it a game changer, but the president of University of Central Florida thinks it’s much more than that. During a panel discussion July 15 at the Florida Economic Development Conference, UCF President John Hitt was asked what he thought about the…
A year after it was created, The International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research is planning its “coming out party” at the nation’s leading semiconductor manufacturing conference, which runs July 14-16 in San Francisco. Last June, the University of Central Florida, Osceola County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council committed funding and resources to develop…
Valencia College had a dilemma. When it got a $2.5 million federal grant under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative in 2014 to expand training and education in high-tech manufacturing, it was missing a key component: A manufacturing training center. Wanting to get started on training the future workforce due to…