Hard Rock International filed a notice with the state saying it is laying off 184 people at its Orlando headquarters – the vast majority of its staff there. The Orlando Sentinel previously reported last year that the company is moving the headquarters to South Florida. On Monday, the Sentinel reported…
Walmart is giving a big boost to a homegrown Orlando company, O’Dang Hummus, with a new deal to place its hummus salad dressings in 2,000 stores. But don’t look for it by the hummus in the deli. The new product will be side-by-side with the oil-based dressings. It’s a dream come true for entrepreneur…
Orlando area businessman Nikesh “Nik” Patel was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison in a $179 million loan fraud scheme that lasted from 2010 to 2014. In handing down the sentence in Chicago, U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras said the scheme perpetrated by Patel was the biggest he’d seen…
Paul Mears III, president of Mears Transportation Group, is seeking approval from the City of Winter Park to build a large new waterfront home on Lake Virginia near Rollins College. The two-story, 5,758 square-foot home would be built on two lots that are being combined, at 1234 Lakeview Drive….
Hard Rock International should be done moving its headquarters out of Orlando in April, company officials confirmed, a little ahead of schedule. The company, which includes casinos, hotels and 160 cafes in more than 70 countries, has been based in Orlando since the Seminole Tribe bought it in 2007….
Amid growing protectionist moves by President Donald Trump’s administration, Canadians in Florida are expanding a chamber of commerce between the nation and the state, and highlighting the huge volume of Canadian visitors, trade and second-home buyers in the Sunshine State. What started as the…
Former Miami Beach Mayor Phil Levine, who is running for governor, joined a growing chorus of politicians telling Delta Airlines to move its headquarters out of Atlanta in response to political sparring between Delta, the NRA and the Georgia state government. Levine sent a letter to Delta CEO Ed…
After Hurricane Matthew devastated southwest Haiti in 2016, there was little left standing around the school that hotelier Harris Rosen built. Photos show its bright red roof mostly intact, surrounded by fields of destruction near the town of Chantal. By stroke of luck or providence, the school…
Lockheed Martin’s recent hiring binge is snapping up engineers and tech talent from the University of Central Florida and other schools almost as fast as they graduate, and bringing in people from other cities to work in Orlando. Alex Borell got his bachelor’s degree in engineering from UCF in…
Piedmont Office Realty Trust has purchased downtown Orlando’s HD Supply building at 501 W. Church St., according to Orange County property records. The five-story building was opened in 2004 near the Amway Center. The sale closed on Thursday, and the sale price as recorded on Tuesday is $28 million,…