DAYTONA BEACH The increased push by retailers to provide online shoppers with same- or next-day delivery is creating a need for more distribution centers within a short drive to large numbers of customers.
That could transform Volusia County into a major distribution hub in the coming years, predicts commercial real estate broker David Murphy, an executive vice president with CBRE, a commercial real estate services and investment firm in Orlando. They re coming, Murphy told a recent gathering of the Volusia County Association for Responsible Development, also known as VCARD.
Noting that Volusia County is at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Interstate 95 within an hour s drive of 2.7 million residents, Murphy forecast that the Daytona Beach area will become like Lakeland within the next few years. Today, the Lakeland area is home to more than 30 distribution centers, including three Amazon facilities, as well as fulfillment centers for Publix, Walmart, Home Depot, L
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Freeport’s Desert of Maine forms new non-profit organization
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The Desert of Maine, a Freeport tourist attraction founded in 1926, will partner with a newly-formed non-profit organization to offer artistic and educational programming.
The Desert of Maine Center for the Arts and Environmental Education, which was incorporated in April, has hired Hannah Gathman, a former coordinating director of the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Freeport, as its first executive director.
The Desert of Maine, a commercial entity, will continue to operate a campground and tourism ventures.
The non-profit will organize and promote arts and cultural programming, educational workshops and school field trips on site in the Desert of Maine’s historic Tuttle Barn and on its dunes.
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