Corporate raider Carl boosts WCI stake, demands talks with companyThe Florida Venture Forum will set a milestone next month when 26 companies make presentations at the 2007 Venture Capital Conference in Boca Raton.In Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For ranking, published in the magazine's Jan. 22 issue, the Sunshine state has a measly four companies, with the closest one to the Gulf Coast being Lakeland-based Publix - number 57. The honeymoon can't last forever. Things have to get back to normal eventually. Right?And that's where the national housing market is headed now from its all-time peak in 2005, says LaSalle Bank Corp. economist Carl R. Tannenbaum. Normal.The Southwest Florida chapter of the Urban Land Institute is seeing green.The group, composed of planners, developers, engineers and others associated with development, plans to tackle the issue of green building standards this year.
