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Signing For 3 More Years at City Market Place, Palm Coast Explores New City Hall Options

FlaglerLive | April 24, 2012

Palm Coast city government’s new lease at City Market Place is considerably cheaper than the $20,000 a month it’s been paying since 2008, but council members are now talking about a lease-purchase deal for a new city hall at Town Center.

Citing Health Concerns and Competition, Palm Coast Kills Home-Based Bakeries

FlaglerLive | April 17, 2012

Palm Coast Mayor Jon Netts proved to be the swing vote against an initiative that would have allowed small bakeries to operate out of homes. The rejection adds to the city’s pattern of conflicted reactions to start-ups–supporting them with one hand while scuttling them with the other.

Panera Bread’s Covelli Secret: From Ohio to Palm Coast, By Way of a Social Conscience

FlaglerLive | April 13, 2012

Panera Bread’s odyssey from seed to giant, and its remarkable expansion during the country’s toughest years is a rarely told story of fortune and resilience, with that rare additive for American businesses: a social conscience.

Panera Bread Rises Crisply in Palm Coast, With Promise of Second Location Within a Year

FlaglerLive | April 10, 2012

Panera Bread in Palm Coast, long awaited, opened to a special reception for a few hundred people on Tuesday at the State Road 100 location, with a grand public opening on Wednesday. The company is planning a second location on Palm Coast Parkway by early 2013.

Palm Coast Data Revenue Now Half Its 2008 Level, When It Signed Job-Creation Deals

FlaglerLive | April 10, 2012

Palm Coast Data’s revenue was down to $15.6 million in the last quarter, less than half the $32.2 million it recorded in the quarter preceding its agreement to consolidate in Palm Coast. The company won’t say how many jobs are on its Palm Coast payroll.

Sorry, Kansas City: FAA Training Facility Will Stay in Palm Coast–For Now

FlaglerLive | March 9, 2012

The FAA Center for Management and Executive Leadership training facility will remain in Palm Coast for the foreseeable future, U.S. Rep. John Mica said Friday, but Palm Coast will still have to compete with other cities in the future to keep the facility and its 80 to 100 jobs.

Ear, Nose, Throat, Hard Hat:
Florida Hospital Flagler Shows Off Its New Digs

FlaglerLive | February 28, 2012

Florida Hospital Flagler’s new Parkway Medical Plaza, opening in July between Walmart and Golden Corral, is a $15 million expansion–and a signal of intensifying head-to-head competition in such fields as imaging and lab work.

Conflicted Incubator: A Divided Palm Coast Council May Relax Home-Based Bakeries

FlaglerLive | February 14, 2012

The issue, prompted by a couple looking to start a home bakery, illustrates two contradicting strains in Palm Coast’s idea of itself–the quiet residential town as opposed to the depressed and unemployed city looking for rejuvenation summed up in its economic-development slogan, “Prosperity 2021.”

Details Emerge in Strathmore Deli Collapse as Landlord and Lender Sue

FlaglerLive | February 2, 2012

The reality of the closure of the popular Palm Coast deli is more complicated than its owners let on as a lender just sued the owners over a loan default and the landlord sued them in December over $20,000 in back rent.

Sparing RVs, Palm Coast Takes On Truckers Making Rest Stops of Box Store Parking Lots

FlaglerLive | February 1, 2012

Truckers like using box stores’ parking lots as rest stops. Store managers haven’t objected and nearby restaurants love it. But Palm Coast is cracking down on the practice at council member Bill Lewis’s urging, though another council member says it’s not been an issue.

Debt, Divorce, Downsizing and Death: The Thriving State of Estate Sales in Palm Coast

FlaglerLive | January 26, 2012

Estate Sales have been the lifeblood of Diana Minotti’s business in Palm Coast in the last four years, underscoring the extent–and occasional upside–of a recession as people retrench and sell off luxuries from fine art to historic furniture.

“Hire a Hero” Program Designed to Spur Hiring of Veterans in Palm Coast and Flagler County

FlaglerLive | January 19, 2012

The Palm Coast Business Assistance Center and the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce are partnering to implement a new “Hire a Hero‟ program to encourage local businesses to employ local veterans and to guide new applicants through the intricate hiring process.

Palm Coast’s Business Assistance Center Offering Three Training Sessions in January

FlaglerLive | January 19, 2012

The training sessions, ranging in themes on how to start your business to managing cash flow to developing a marketing strategy, are priced between $15 and $35.

1 Architect, 1 Banker, 1 Health Consultant. Mix. Serve. Result: Thai Korner Restaurant.

FlaglerLive | January 2, 2012

Palm Coast’s Thai Korner Restaurant, open one year, is the result of an unlikely partnership between three vastly different latter-day restaurateurs willing to defy a climate murderous to new businesses.

Of Art and Soul: Erin Walker’s Pottery Studio For All Creators Coils Into Palm Coast

FlaglerLive | December 19, 2011

The Art and Soul Studio at 25 Pine Cone Drive in Palm Coast is recreational paint-your-own-pottery shop for all ages and many occasions, including birthday parties and Wednesdays’ Wine-d Down, a bring-your-own-wine ladies night.

Palm Coast Would Underwrite Small Business Loans With Tax Dollars as New Incentive

FlaglerLive | December 13, 2011

The city’s loan-guarantee program would set aside $55,000 for existing, for-profit businesses looking to expand–or survive. The program is part of a series of economic development initiatives centered around the seven-month-old Business Assistance Center.

Palm Coast Pinch-Hits for Troubled Marathon Promoter Dean Reinke, Securing TDC Grant

FlaglerLive | October 19, 2011

Half-Marathon promoter Dean Reinke’s Dean Reinke Sports Group attempted three times to get Tourist Development Council subsidies in the last two years and was turned down because of deceptive practices. Palm Coast government stepped in and got the grant for the January event.

Mike Taschler, Palm Coast Data VP and COO, Is Out as Revenue Continues to Fall

FlaglerLive | October 17, 2011

Taschler’s departure follows less than three months after the resignation of Palm Coast Data CEO John Meneough, and three weeks after the company posted another steep revenue decline.

Palm Coast’s First Business-to-Business Expo: How-To For Recession-Defying Entrepreneurs

FlaglerLive | October 7, 2011

Some 60 businesses and agencies turned up for the day-long business-to-business expo organized by Palm Coast’s Business Assistance Center to focus on local, small and emerging businesses.

At European Village Jewelry Store, Two Unspeakable Words, One Charge, Then Jail

FlaglerLive | October 1, 2011

Dan and Edith Ferrena have run Palm Coast Gold Buyers at European Village for more than two years. At noon Friday, their world unraveled in a brief confrontation with a man who threw a supreme insult at Edith and accused Dan of pointing a gun at him.

Palm Coast Code Enforcement Declares War On Door-to-Door Salesmen. Arrests Follow.

FlaglerLive | September 2, 2011

Four door-to-door solicitors were arrested in August, two more, selling meat, were jailed on Thursday as the sheriff’s office has been following through on a complaint by Code Enforcement Board member Norman Mugford that the city’s ordinance was not being enforced.

With Pill Mills and “Internet Cafes” in Sight, Palm Coast Prepares Stricter Regulations

FlaglerLive | August 30, 2011

The Palm Coast City Council holds little hope for state law to crack down on gambling posing as Internet cafes, which are proliferating in the city, so it’ll regulate them through zoning laws. It’s doing the same for pain clinics, once moratoriums on both types of businesses expire.

Palm Coast Data Lays Off 18 More, This Time in Magazine Customer Service

FlaglerLive | August 22, 2011

The Palm Coast Data layoffs are the latest in a string of job losses that have struck the company’s warehouse, membership services, IT and management.

Sheriff Fleming on Palm Coast and Bunnell Gambling Halls: “I Have Bigger Fish To Fry”

FlaglerLive | August 19, 2011

Sheriff Don Fleming’s stance on internet cafes and other such gambling halls has wide implications for Palm Coast and Bunnell, both of which are wrestling with ordinances that would regulate the establishments.

Enterprise Flagler Is No More

FlaglerLive | August 18, 2011

After 11 years, Enterprise Flagler voted unanimously on Thursday to disband, a vote reflecting resignation to financial realities (Palm Coast and Flagler County are no longer funding the agency) rather than enthusiasm from Enterprise Flagler members. There is no clear plan in place to replace the agency’s work.

Bowing to Public Pressure, Palm Coast Opts for Bidding Out Trash Hauling Contract

FlaglerLive | August 16, 2011

Citing an epiphany in the shower, Palm Coast City Manager Jim Landon reversed his recommendation to negotiate an garbage-contract extension with Waste Pro. The city will open up the process through a broader request for proposals.

Trash Flips: Waste Pro Lobbies Another County To Go to Bids While Urging Palm Coast Not To

FlaglerLive | August 15, 2011

Waste Pro wants to keep the $7-million-a-year garbage hauling in contract in Palm Coast, so it’s opposing a bidding process, but it’s arguing the exact opposite in Hillsborough County, where it’s hoping to win the contract.

I Love Waste Pro. But.

Pierre Tristam | August 12, 2011

To my 7-year-old son, Waste Pro’s twice-weekly pickups are a sacred, joyful ritual made more so by Waste Pro’s thoughtful workers. That doesn’t mean Palm Coast should shirk its responsibilities to residents when it comes to bidding out a new garbage contract.

Florida Hospital Flagler’s David Ottati Is Among Northeast’s Ultimate CEO Award Winners

FlaglerLive | August 4, 2011

The Jacksonville Business Journal’s fifth annual Ultimate CEO Award drew some 40 nominations from northeast Florida. Ottati, Florida Hospital Flagler’s CEO for the past five years, was among 13 winners.

Palm Coast Data CEO John Meneough Resigns After 15 Years As Company Struggles

FlaglerLive | August 1, 2011

John Meneough, 62, had been with Palm Coast Data in its various incarnations since 1996. A successor has not been named. Meneough’s resignation is part of broader changes at Palm Coast Data parent Amrep Corp.

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