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West Palm gives initial “ok” to funding digital film school project as city gateway, job creator
West Palm Beach city commissioners Monday tentatively approved establishing the Digital Domain Institute without any disapproval from the public, banking on the high-tech college to become the city’s premier industry. The artist rendering posted here below the proposed The Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts to be built in West Palm Beach. John Textor, the head of Digital Domain Holdings who brought Port St. Lucie a digital animation studio in exchange for land and money, wants to do a similar deal with West Palm Beach.
View the series of newspaper articles available on this topic:
West Palm Beach WBPF (8/30/10) (with video)
Disney’s Entrepreneur Center Makes Plans to Relocate to Orlando Fashion Square
0The Orange County Board of County Commissioners voted to approve a five-year lease at the Orlando Fashion Square for the relocation of the Disney Entrepreneur Center (DEC). The DEC is a public/private partnership established in 2003 to support and assist small business development in Central Florida backed with the full support of Walt Disney World Resorts (NYSE:DIS), Orange County Government Florida, the City of Orlando and several other organizations.
More coverage here on The Real Estate Channel.
Metro Orlando’s Emergence as an Entertainment Technology Leader in new TEXTURE magazine
The Metro Orlando EDC is proud to showcase Texture, a publication focused on the technology companies, personalities and innovations that are “putting imagination to work” throughout Metro Orlando.
View it here: Texture Vol 7 Issue 1 2010
Subscribe to Texture Magazine here
DMAF Board Member Wins SBA Honor
Our own Waymon Armstrong, president and CEO of ECS (Engineering and Computer Simulations, Inc.), was recognized by President Barack Obama as the US Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Person of the Year!
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