Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:24:38 PM
Real estate agents Rick Solik and Betsy Owens were handed what seemed like an impossible task in the spring of 2008: Take a 15 percent vacant, 190,000-square-foot Class A building in Lake Mary to 100 percent leased at a time when there were no prospects and local office vacancy rates were 12.1 percent.
Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:20:53 PM
It is no small sign of trouble when a region's total employment base at its biggest companies continues to shrink by thousands of jobs a year.
Posted on Sunday, December 6, 2009 7:06:56 PM
Paula Hawkins, the "housewife from Maitland" who blazed a trail for women in politics in Florida and throughout the South, died Friday in Orlando after complications from a recent fall, according to a family statement.
Posted on Friday, December 4, 2009 6:47:52 PM
The OrbiTouch keyboard, originally created to help people with carpal tunnel syndrome, is taking the gaming world by storm.
Posted on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 7:44:22 AM
He's everything she's ever wanted in a man: distinguished, a caretaker, a homeowner.
Posted on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:20:42 PM
The Maitland Art Center Reproduced with permission December 12 - The Maitland Art Center will host Sculpturefest, an art festival featuring the works of sixteen of Central Florida's top sculpture artists.
Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 12:02:32 PM
Hard feelings Concrete Realities Through Jan. 3 at the Maitland Art Center 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.org $3 'Wet concrete is no joke!' says curator Richard Colvin, describing the molded and delicately patterned artwork on display for the first time ever at the Maitland Art Center gallery .
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:43:49 AM
Vacancy in Orlando is expected to push up above 17% this year, while the gains in asking and effective rents recorded since 2006 will be erased, according to a fourth-quarter Office Research Report by Marcus & Millichap.
Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2009 11:30:35 AM
PHOTO COURTESY ED BLACKMAN Hopkins Hall - Hopkins Hall is headquarters for the 13th biennial Lake Helen Christmas Home Tour.
Posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:09:21 AM
Bats are making a smelly mess in one Maitland neighborhood and now people who live there want the state to do something about it.
Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009 3:29:16 PM
A 3-year-old boy reported missing from Florida Hospital Altamonte has been found in Maitland while officers search for a suspect, according to Altamonte Springs police.
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 3:25:04 PM
A Maitland police officer was justified in using deadly force on a teenager who was stabbing his mother, the state attorneya TMs office said Friday.
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 11:19:00 AM
Maitland police and Seminole County deputies searching for the man who took a child from Florida Hospital Altamonte on Monday afternoon without his mother's permission captured the suspect in a Seminole County neighborhood Tuesday morning.
Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:59:39 AM
The man accused of snatching a 3-year-old boy from Florida Hospital Altamonte was dragged kicking and screaming out of a backyard in Maitland Tuesday morning.
Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:47:52 AM
Authorities this morning nabbed the man who is suspected of taking a child from a hospital Monday.
Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 6:16:21 PM
Half of U.S. teens with cell phones admit talking on them while driving and a third say they've written text messages while they were at the wheel, according to a report released Monday.
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:09:06 AM
How safe are Orlando's office towers? A smile and a nod are all it took for me to gain access to most of the high-profile office buildings in downtown Orlando, from SunTrust Center to the Wachovia Tower.
Posted on Friday, November 6, 2009 12:36:48 PM
We all lead busy lives, and sometimes our "to-do lists" can get in the way of quality family time.
Posted on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:27:23 PM
Farmers markets are a dime a dozen in Central Florida, with weekend markets popping up everywhere from Maitland to Waterford Lakes.
Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 12:19:22 PM
A garbage truck employee was run over this morning on Highway 17-92 near Mayo Avenue in Maitland, police said.