Category: Business
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Drive Shack follows Topgolf into area with January debut
A second golf-entertainment center Drive Shack is teeing up to open in Central Florida, just months after Topgolf. Drive Shake has pegged January to open its 66,000-square-foot, three-story golf, restaurant and meeting center in the Lake Nona District, said Sara Yakin, the company’s chief operating officer. The Lake Nona complex will be the debut location for the…
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Why You Should Check Out The New Firefox Quantum Browser
Mozilla claims its updated web browser is twice as fast as its last one, and uses a lot less memory than the competition—Google Chrome in particular. It’s called Firefox Quantum, and it might give the web’s most popular web browser a run for its money. How Quantum Compares to Chrome Firefox Quantum is twice as…
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The U.S. Is Tackling Global Warming, Even if Trump Isn’t
World leaders have been meeting in Bonn, Germany, since last week to discuss carrying out the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Sadly, though not unexpectedly, the White House and federal agencies have largely been absent from the negotiating table. But American leaders from state capitols, city halls and businesses across the country have shown up in…
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Next year’s iPhones could be even bigger and cheaper than iPhone X
Apple released two base models of the iPhone in 2017 — the iPhone 8/8 Plus and the iPhone X — which may have been a questionable strategy. The iPhone 8 has reportedly struggled in the market in the shadow of iPhone X, which may lead Apple to go back to selling just a single base model in 2018.…
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Water sports park planned for Lake Nona
A new water sports park is being planned for Orlando’s Lake Nona development, the Tavistock Group said Monday. (Photo via Tavistock Development Co.) Nona Adventure Park will feature a solar-powered water ski and wakeboard cable park, an inflatable aqua park, a climbing tower with a ropes course and climbing walls, the Bahamas-based private investment organization…
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Two Orlando-area hotels command $17.1M
Two Orlando-area hotels, a Hampton Inn & Suites and a Holiday Inn Express & Suites, sold for $17.1 million. The 81-room Hampton Inn and the 77-room Holiday Inn are in Apopka, are 13 miles north of Orlando. The buyer paid an average of $108,227 per room for the two-hotel portfolio and financed the acquisition with a $15.9 million bank loan.…
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MetroPlan to Amazon HQ2: We are open to changing priorities to meet your needs
It looks like the Central Florida region’s transit systems may get a speedy timeline for their ongoing project completions if Amazon’s second headquarters is built here. MetroPlan Orlando, the metropolitan planning organization for Seminole, Orange and Osceola counties, submitted a letter to the Amazon.com Inc. (NYSE: AMZN) HQ2 site selection team stating how it will work with…