New high-tech firmCambridge, Mass.-based Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. will be establishing a BioMEMS R&D Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a Multi Chip Module Center in St. Petersburg.Smith files bankruptcySmith Family Homes, an upscale homebuilder along the Gulf Coast, has filed Chapter 7 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Under Chapter 7, a court-appointed official liquidates the company's assets to pay creditors.udge upholds gun lawA Federal judge in Florida upheld a law allowing employees to keep concealed weapons inside their locked vehicles in their employer-owned parking lot.More arena delaysThe foreclosure of a unfinished hockey arena in Lakewood Ranch has been delayed again. German company relocatesOrbeco-Hellige Inc., a Long Island, N.Y.-based manufacturing company that specializes in building instruments for testing water and wastewater treatments, has moved its business to Manatee County. Enterprise opens Aug. 1Fort Myers city officials plan to dedicate the new Southwest Florida Enterprise Center on Aug. 1.News-Press layoffsThe Fort Myers News-Press, a daily newspaper owned by Gannett, told its readers recently it plans to lay off 36 employees and will not fill another 10 job openings.
