Media Coverage

Below is a small sampling of media coverage on Metro Orlando's business community.

Publication/Date:		Headline:	Media Coverage:

	Delta Sky September 2011	Orlando: Innovation City - From Tourism to Tech to Medical Mecca, O-Town is where Great Ideas Grow.	Whether you're a visitor or an investor, Orlando always delivers more than you expect.
	Orlando Sentinel February 13, 2011	Synergy city: Medical researchers head for Lake Nona	Lake Nona's medical city has made a lot of headlines.
	Mashable December 2010	5 Ways Cities Are Using Social Media to Reverse Economic Downturn	The economic downturn has forced cities and states across the country to be more creative as they compete to attract companies and stimulate local economies.
	CNN December 13, 2010	High-tech war games help save lives	Virtual life is around us every day, from online communities to simulation in computer games. It's fun, but it's also useful.
	R&D Magazine December 10, 2010	New Economy, New Playbook: Part 3	Describe your organization’s staffing and recruiting challenges as you see them now.
	The New York Times September 7, 2010	Orlando's Newest Attraction Is Medical	Just off State Road 417, a five-minute drive east from Orlando International Airport, a 650-acre parcel of land is fast becoming a $2 billion medical campus, including a medical school, research laboratories and hospitals.
	R&D Magazine August 10, 2010	A Spark of Success	Innovation can strike at any moment, without warning. The discovery of Teflon in the 1930s occurred when young DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett was working to make a new kind of chlorofluorocarbon.
	Real Estate Channel April 2010	Top Reasons To Do Business in Metro Orlando	Recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the world's "most fiercely competitive" communities, Orlando offers unlimited potential on par with the nation's top business centers; a diverse spectrum of industries; young, vibrant, talented workforce; multi-modal access to destinations around the globe; a do-what-it-takes attitude; and year-round sunshine.
	Real Estate Channel April 1, 2010	City of Orlando Targets Growing Digital Media Industry for 67-Acre 'Creative Village' Redevelopment Project	As the Orlando Magic NBA team transitions to its new $500M arena in the fall, the current Magic arena and surrounding buildings will become part of a large-scale commercial re-development project called the 'Creative Village'.
	FloridaTrend.com April 1, 2010	Central Fla. Yearbook 2010	Orlando/Orange County - The city, county and region are starting to breathe sighs of relief, cautiously, as multiple projects come to fruition that should create jobs and pump money into the economy.
	Circuit – Progress Energy Fall 2009	Florida Photonics Cluster Enabling Growth of Jobs, Businesses	As optics and light-related technologies become an integral part of modern life, companies and communities across Florida are harvesting a lucrative economic return.
	Ahora Orlando Fall 2009	Healthy Future	Magazine - cover to cover
	Orlando Sentinel October 3, 2009	Burnham’s impact may rival Disney’s in Metro Orlando	The glass-clad Burnham Institute for Medical Research shimmers in the sunlight, which pours in through banks of windows and a giant atrium that illuminates the building's interior.
	FirstMonday October 2, 2009	Medical Markers	A new EDC program celebrates strides in building the regin's life science industry.
	Florida Trend October 1, 2009	Medical City Is Changing Florida's DNA	Orlando's medical cluster is a big step toward critical mass for the state's biotech initiative.
	Orlando Home & Leisure August 2009	The Producers - Independent filmmakers breathe new life into Central Florida's Silver Screen dreams.	We are lurking in the cavernous, dimly lit recesses of Universal Studios building 25-A, awaiting director David Nixon’s hushed command, “Cut,” which will signal the end of a scene from his latest movie, Letters to God.
	Entrepreneur August 2009	Where to Be an Entrepreneur - The Coordinator: Orlando, FL	Orlando may be the house the mouse built, but a long stretch of intergovernmental and private cooperation is what turned the city into one of the most highly coordinated entrepreneurial engines in the country.
	CNNMoney.com August 2009	Best Places to Live	CNNMoney's Best Places database of 1,800-plus U.S. cities includes towns with populations 8,500 to 50,000 with satisfactory education and crime scores, where income is below 200% of the state median, and that are no more than 95% white – as well as cities with populations 90,000 and up.
	WFTV.com August 2009	UCF College Of Medicine: The Players, The Vision, The Future	There's a new model for American health care right in Central Florida. UCF has a new way of training doctors.
	CNNMoney.com July 21, 2009	Where the jobs are	Especially in a tough economy, plentiful job opportunities are key to making a great place to live. These 25 counties have experienced the most job growth over the last eight years.
	Forbes.com June 2, 2009	Best Cities For Technology Jobs	Is your local economy safe from the tech bust? You might be surprised.
	WDBO December 3, 2008	Simulation training show spotlights Orlando as industry leader	Orlando is home to the simulation training industry. Over the course of nearly 30 years simulation training has grown from simple programs to full 3D simulation that combines virtual reality with a game-like atmosphere.
	WESH.com December 3, 2008	Orlando is Bright Spot for High Tech Simulation Jobs
	Business Xpansion Journal December 2008	Florida is brighter and bolder	Florida is one of the leaders in the world in strategic geographic location, state of the art infrastructure, multilingual workforce, and concentration of corporate and financial resources. In fact, if a company wants to do international business, Florida is the state in which to begin.
	WMFE October 2, 2008	The Arts Connection In Conversation: Ralph Clemente
	WMFE March 27, 2008	The Arts Connection
	The New York Times September 6, 2007	What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)	Early this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.
	TechJournal South July 9, 2007	BioOrlando launch highlights growing tech hub	Think Orlando and you’re likely to conjure images of Disney World, theme parks, palm trees and golf courses. But behind the scenes, the city has quietly created a $15 billion technology industry, including a growing life science cluster.
	Florida Trend April 2007	Economic Yearbook A New Spirit	Economic Growth: Metro Orlando has been named a top 10 "geek mecca" by Wired magazine.
	Business 2.0 May 2007	The Best Jobs in the Hottest Markets	The great American hiring boom is slowing down — but as labor cools with the rest of the economy, a few choice regions will stay red-hot. You just have to know where to look.
	TechJournal South February 2007	Spotlight: Orlando The Light Fantastic in Central Florida	One day communications will travel on multi-colored beams of laser light delivering data, video, and the Internet at a terra bit–one trillion pieces of information–per second.
	Wired magazine January 2007	Best Geek Cities!	Using highly scientific methodology as well as algorithms snuck out of NASA and Google, we analyzed cities across the U.S. to find the Top 10 Places to get your geek on.
	National Real Estate Investor August 2006	Technology Triumph	When an unknown buyer began taking options on swampland south and west of Orlando in 1964, some speculators figured on an expansion of the Glenn L. Martin Co. missile plant.
	BusinessWeek August 21/28, 2006	Pushing for Growth: How Cities Succeed	Even with globalization, location still matters in economic competition. But it is more important than ever for communities to offer distinctive advantages.
	eWEEK June 2006	Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech	eWEEK editorial scoured dozens of news stories, job reports and technology forecasts, crunched them all together with a dash of insight, and came up with the following 10 cities and their surrounding areas.
	CBS News February 8, 2005	Military Using Video Games	Video games are increasingly used as teaching tools, and even the U.S. Military is taking up the theory that games can sharpen, rather than rot, the mind. Mark Strassmann reports on digital combat.
	National Real Estate Investor January 2005	Orlando Diversifies and Prospers	Beyond tourism, the regional economy is benefiting from a burgeoning high-tech corridor and downtown investment.