Features: 2006 INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
Two years, eight hurricanes, $2-plus gas prices and still Florida’s economy is going strong.

Features: RETAIL: Following the Condos - Industry Outlook
Some cities are doing a better job than others in encouraging a thriving downtown marketplace.

Features: RETAIL: New Names, Concepts - Industry Outlook
Stores on the low and high end plan to expand, but the real changes will come from retailers in the middle.

Features: HEALTHCARE - Industry Outlook
An overhaul of Florida’s $15-billion Medicaid program is set to begin this year.

Features: TOURISM - Industry Outlook
Local experts predict the pace of tourism in Florida will likely eclipse the rest of the nation, which is expected to see growth of about 2% this year.

Features: BANKING - Industry Outlook
Florida bankers will be watching a new fed chairman learn the job, something they haven’t done for 18 years.

Features: AGRICULTURE - Industry Outlook
In July, after Hurricane Dennis slammed into Florida’s oystering communities along Apalachicola Bay, real estate speculators snapped up nine demolished seafood packinghouses along U.S. Highway 98 in Eastpoint.

Features: TRANSPORTATION - Industry Outlook
Florida’s transportation sector won’t lack for opportunity in 2006. “A tremendous amount of work,” says Bob Burleson, president of the Florida Transportation Builders’ Association.

Features: RETAIL: No Middle Ground - Industry Outlook
Publix and Wal-Mart rule their markets, leaving the chains in the middle floundering.

Features: RETAIL: Dr. Location - Industry Outlook
More retailers are turning to “business geographers” like UF professor Grant Thrall.

Features: RETAIL: Adding Up - Industry Outlook
For expansion-minded Florida-based retailers, the year ahead will be a busy one.

Features: RETAIL: Lifestyle Change - Industry Outlook
The Florida mall frenzy is likely to abate — but big box retailers are still expansion-minded.

Features: RETAIL: Full Plate - Industry Outlook
The industry is projecting growth for 2006, but the storms of the past two years have given restaurateurs indigestion.

Features: RETAIL: Overdrive - Industry Outlook
Auto and boat dealers are expecting another strong year.

Features: REAL ESTATE: The Party's Over - Industry Outlook
'Flipping' will run its course this year as the face of Florida's real estate landscape changes.

Features: REAL ESTATE: Locking in Gains - Industry Outlook
More investors are looking to sell their properties — a trend that’s expected to continue this year.

Features: BIOTECH - Industry Outlook
With its first choice for a site in rural Palm Beach County bogged in environmental politics, the Scripps Research Institute shifted gears late last year and will try to build its biotech village at the Abacoa campus of Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter.

Features: INSURANCE: Lingering Issues - Industry Outlook
Reforms of the past have helped shore up workers’ comp, but there are still some loose ends.

Features: INSURANCE: Q&A with Rade Musulin - Industry Outlook
No Knee-Jerk Reactions, Please

Features: MANUFACTURING - Industry Outlook
Simclar Inc., a contract electronics manufacturer in Hialeah with nearly $58 million in annual U.S. revenues, has found success in low- and mid-volume production of parts for larger equipment makers — even exporting to the Far East, says President Barry Pardon.