ORLANDO-The 400 members of Teamsters Local 385 are pinning their hopes on a federal mediator to determine if a new three-year contract that doesn't guarantee a 40-hour work week is legal. The workers say they will strike without a contract.
ORLANDO-The 400 members of Teamsters Local 385 are pinning their hopes on a federal mediator to determine if a new three-year contract that doesn't guarantee a 40-hour work week is legal. The workers say they will strike without a contract.
ORLANDO-But the New York-based consulting and appraisal house gives the Orlando area low evaluations in retail and office. Apartments, Orlando's strongest sector, won a No. 4 ranking. Industrial placed fifth out of 59 metro markets surveyed in Integra's 12th annual Viewpoint analyses.
ORLANDO-Martin W. Boelens Jr. and Robert W. Boyd have agreed to plead guilty on separate charges of securities, mail and wire fraud in the total $214 million sales of unregistered mortgage-backed securities to 2,000 private investors across the country. Securities salesmen Thomas S. Spencer of Orlando and Anthony V. Micciche of Tampa, FL also agreed to plead guilty in the 15-month-old investigation.
MIAMI-Eagle, a Boca Raton, FL-based multifamily development and construction company, is now staring down the barrel of its fifth class-action lawsuit stemming from charges that it fabricated earnings.
ORLANDO-RIDA Development Corp. of Houston and New York-based Apollo Real Estate Advisors, joint developers of the $750 million, 1,400-acre golf resort five miles south of Walt Disney World, plan a 700-room hotel and conference center at an estimated hard construction cost of $150 million or a little more than $200,000 per room.
ORLANDO-William Franklin "Frank" Billingsley III, who has moved around from Chamber of Commerce positions to city posts to private industry, is back in the private-public sector as executive director of the Downtown Development Board. He replaces Tom Kohler who left to enter the private sector.
MIAMI-The locally based, 59-unit Asian-styled restaurant chain posted total revenue of $170 million for fiscal 2002 ended March 31 versus $161.9 million in fiscal 2001. Sales of $42.5 million in the last three months of fiscal 2002 compared to 41.9 million in the previous year.
ORLANDO-But the New York-based consulting and appraisal house gives the Orlando area low evaluations in retail and office. Apartments, Orlando's strongest sector, won a No. 4 ranking. Industrial placed fifth out of 59 metro markets surveyed in Integra's 12th annual Viewpoint analyses.
ORLANDO-The Atlanta-based bank company expects to open bids next week on office space and branches it is closing after the $705 million, Feb. 15 acquisition of 141 Florida branches from Columbus, OH-based Huntington National Bank which is leaving the state.