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What will Santa bring? For Vero Beach Regional Airport, a U.S. Customs facility

Corporate Air is close to breaking ground on a $20 million expansion at Vero Beach Regional Airport that ...

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Island’s biggest homebuilder saving oaks to preserve Vero’s ‘Old Florida’ ambiance

Near the end of a roller coaster year for the construction and real estate industries, GHO Homes continues ...

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Instant buildings: Tilt-wall construction a traffic stopper

Turns out tilt-wall construction is more than just a super-strong building technique, producing steel and concrete structures that, ...

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Building boom getting underway on Central Beach oceanfront

A minor building boom is getting underway along the Central Beach oceanfront, with three new homes totaling more ...

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Real estate mystery: More homes coming on market, but island prices so far remain strong

There is a bit of a real estate mystery on the barrier island. Inventory has increased dramatically since ...

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32963 luxury developers look to South (Hutchinson Island)

As waterfront land in 32963 gets harder to find, high-end island brokers, builders and developers are turning some ...

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Across the lagoon, Waterway Village nearing completion

Across the lagoon from Indian River Shores, off to the west of Grand Harbor, bulldozers are rumbling in ...

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FPL solar fields here will soon be able to totally power our community

Almost overnight, Indian River County has gone from producing no electricity – except for a trickle from scattered ...

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Backers of $50M land acquisition bond issue stress urgency

The $50 million land acquisition bond issue that’s on the November ballot was more than two years in ...

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City Council candidates who support the vision

The city’s grand redevelopment plan for the site of Big Blue – which if it comes to pass ...

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Former rocker turned healthcare exec finds his passion reimagining barrier island homes

How fun is real estate Vero Beach? Fun enough that Ken Cooper, a highly successful entrepreneur and executive ...

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Upcoming development projects excite city and county officials

Top officials from Vero Beach, Sebastian, Fellsmere and Indian River County appeared at a symposium at the Indian ...