Category: Business

Our friends at the Florida Times Union are cleaning the pie off their collective faces this morning after an embarrassing incident that started an avalanche of negative buzz on twitter, facebook, and other social media towards the publisher who also publishes the St Augustine Record.

Historic City News readers interested in the Visitor and Convention Bureau “State of the Industry Report”, an annual event that presents the current state and future projections for tourism affecting St. Johns County, are invited to join more than 300 local travel and hospitality professionals for this year’s event.

United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced to Historic City News that the United States has settled allegations that nine hospitals in Jacksonville had a practice of routinely ordering basic life support ambulances when this type of transport was not medically necessary.

New interest in a petition on the Internet website change.org has been sparked by last week’s controversial approval, in a 5-2 split vote, allowing a planned unit development for the former Dow Museum of Historic Houses; making way for a 30-room hotel to be operated in the heart of one of the city’s historic preservation…

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After more than an hour-long parade of residents and other interested parties, Historic City News can report that five-of-seven members of the St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board are okay with developer David Corneal’s plan to convert the Dow Museum of Historic Homes into a 30-room boutique hotel, to be called “Cordova Inn”.

Historic City News was informed that Flagler College held the inaugural meeting of its new Business Advisory Board; a group of prominent area business leaders who will serve as the primary link between the business community and the College’s Business Administration Department.

Richard Goldman, President & Chief Executive Officer of the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra & The Beaches Visitors & Convention Bureau, informed Historic City News last week that the VCB will provide staff support to a newly organized VIC Advisory Committee.

Businessmen and women who read Historic City News in St Augustine and St Johns County will be interested to know the results of the most recent annual report of visitor activity and spending generated by our two national monuments.