FAU’s Oct. 27–29 AI in Business certificate runs three full days in Boca or live virtual for $2,495: no coding, no prior degree, for managers who need a real decision framework before Q4.
A bipartisan federal film/TV credit was introduced Sept. 24. The bill text sets a 20% labor credit, up to 30% with uplifts — including one for federally declared disaster areas — and makes it transferable. Florida still has no statewide credit. Here’s the South Florida owner map.
Florida SB 484 sets the 100 MW and $150M path to a state data center sales tax exemption through 2037. What owners need to qualify and plan capital.
Evoke Strategy's Florida AI Visibility 2026 index found 94% of 28,488 studied businesses absent from AI search. What Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach owners should measure next.
Miami-Dade's District 9 Mom and Pop grant, up to $5,000 on a cost-reimbursement basis, took sealed applications by hand from Oct. 5 through Oct. 9, by 4 p.m., at the Richmond Heights Business Development Hub. The county had not announced awards as of Oct. 9.
Pembroke Park adopted data center fee stack and special-exception path. Broward owners can map fee cost and bond before signing a site deal.
Related Ross closed on Boca’s 124-acre BRiC campus. Who controls the former IBM site now, what tenants and vendors should do next, and how Palm Beach and Broward operators should read the money and mixed-use runway.
Georgia still posts 20%+10% uplift; New York posts 30% / $700M through 2036. Florida’s statewide credit ended in 2016, wasn’t restored in 2026 — and a Film Legacy plate is not a production credit. What owners, crews, and civic readers can do now.
Palm Beach County commissioners adopted the Large-Scale Data Center Moratorium ordinance 6 to 0 on Sept. 24, 2026. Here is what the one-year zoning review covers, what keeps moving, the sub-50 MW lane, and where owners, contractors and suppliers find work through 2027.
From Smorgasburg Flagler Village and CTZN Park in Progresso to Eataly and Equinox at CityPlace, Fletchers in Boca, Delray café announcements, and Palm Beach Improv in Wellington: a Broward/Palm Beach map of hangouts built for return visits, with owner adjacency and landlord pitch language.
South Florida owners: Miami AI Summit ran Fri., Oct. 23 at Loews Coral Gables, with $250 Standard and $600 VIP tickets. See who it fit and what is next.
Mandel Library’s Intro to AI in Small Business ran Thu., Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Clematis St. See the three session ladder and the next AI workshop.
