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Martin County Business Development Board Announces Spring/Summer
2019 Cohort for Impactful Business Accelerator Program
With its partners at the Florida Small Business Development Center and the Corporate
& Community Training Institute at Indian River State College, the Business Development
Board of Martin County (BDBMC) is proud to announce the business owners and
entrepreneurs selected for the 2019 Spring/Summer Cohort who will receive business
counseling, technical assistance and training, and the opportunity to compete for small
business grants at the conclusion of the Business Accelerator Program in July 2019. The
cohort includes: Althia Carvalho, Josephine Da Luz, Ronise Da Luz, Cory Ender, John
Everett, Dionesha and Dunbar Johnson, Fred Kirkhart, Bonnie Landry, Christina Martin,
Amanda Mohorek, Darby Munroe, Jason Porter, Beena Thomas, Siju Thomas, Olavo Verissimo
and Tina Quintero. For more information on joining the Fall 2019 Cohort, call the
Everything is flying high at
Martin County’s Witham Field
Earlier this year, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection opened a new
3,200-square-foot facility at Witham Field,
a general aviation airport, to better serve
the boaters, pilots, residents and visitors
of Martin County and the Treasure Coast
region seeking to conveniently clear customs.
From opening day through March,
nearly 250 aircraft and marine vessels
utilized the new facility. With the increase
in airport traffic, customs officers, airport
staff and fixed base operators (FBOs)
have improved both processes and level
of service. In fact, the Stuart Jet Center
was recently ranked among the top FBOs
in the Americas in a survey by Aviation
International News. Scoring an average of
4.65 out of 5 in five survey categories, the
Stuart center secured the:
• No. 1 spot for line service, including care,
fueling and handling services for passenger,
crew and aircraft needs
• No. 3 spot for customer service representatives
• No. 9 spot among the world’s most
improved FBOs.
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BDBMC at 772-221-1380.
(Re)Development in Martin County
The Washington Post recently profiled Knight Kiplinger, the journalist and real estate
visionary, for his transformational plans to build a new small town called Pineland
Prairie in Martin County on a 3,400-acre parcel his family has owned for decades.
What makes this long-term development project stand out is the unique promise
to only develop 30 percent of the land. “Seventy percent of this property will be left
open forever,” said Kiplinger in the article. “I am using the other 30 percent, 1,100 acres,
to create a compact, new town by the best practices of modern planning. Compact,
walkable, environmental.” For more information on the emerging mixed-use, village-like
project, visit https://pinelandprairie.com/
901hub launches next generation co-working think
tank in heart of Stuart Arts & Entertainment District
The 901hub is a next generation, co-working think-tank environment,
providing professional and creative spaces populated
by Martin County and City of Stuart entrepreneurs and artists. The
venue offers an affordable, yet expansive, solution for entrepreneurs
and start-ups to set up an office space, professional mailing
address or a place to schedule client meetings. With a robust
speaker and social events calendar, 901hub aims to become the
heart of the diverse entrepreneurial and artistic community.
“The City of Stuart and Martin County are full of creative
entrepreneurs, artists, start-ups and digital nomads who would
benefit from a co-working membership
in our newly designed Arts & Entertainment
District master plan around Bruner
Pond,” said Anthony Olivieri, founder
for 901hub, Inc. “For digital nomads, we
offer an alternative to coffee house work
environments, or a home base business to set up client meetings.
For small business owners and professionals, we offer affordable
office space in the City of Stuart, with the benefit of so many community
space features that expand the feel of their work space
without adding to their bottom line.”
To learn more, visit http://901hub.com.
DEVELOPMENT
Whitham Airport Customs Facility Grand Opening
with U.S. Customs and Martin County Officials 2019
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