Business Briefs
GATES completes expansion of medical facility
GATES has completed the expansion and renovation of Children’s Specialists of Florida medical facility on Summerlin Lakes Drive in Fort Myers. Over 3,200 square feet has been added to the existing facility to provide additional exam rooms and specialty testing rooms.
The project was designed by Gora McGahey Associates in Architecture. GATES completed the project on schedule and on budget.
Children’s Specialists of Florida offers state of the art cardiovascular services in all areas of Pediatric Cardiology.
GATES, with offices in Florida and the Republic of Panama, is a fully integrated construction, development and real estate services company. For more information, call (239-593-3777 or visit the company Web site at www.GATESinc.com.
Kovacevic joins Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida
Dr. George Kovacevic has joined the Cape Coral obstetrics and gynecology practice of Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida.
He will continue to practice from his office at 3046 Del Prado Blvd. in Cape Coral. He is accepting new patients.
Dr. Kovacevic has been in private practice with Cape Women’s Care in Cape Coral since 2006. Prior to that, he worked at Collier Health Services Inc., in Immokalee, and at Women’s Health Care Center in Peru, Ill. While in Illinois, he also served as medical staff president and chair of the Department of Obstetrics at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru, Ill.
He received his M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago and served his OB/GYN residency at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago. He is the co-chairman of the Depart-ment of OB/GYN at Lee Mem-orial Health System.
Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida, a physician-owned and operated medical practice, was formed in 1996 by many long practicing local physicians and has grown to feature more than 45 physicians and medical professionals. Medical specialties include internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics.
Ten offices are conveniently located in Fort Myers, Cape Coral, and Lehigh Acres. For additional information, visit www.ppcswfl.com
Martial Arts Training Institute to host Women’s Self-Defense Class
The operators of Martial Arts Training Institute have hired new martial arts instructors and want to show them off. Recent staff additions are Sensei Adam Blum, teaching Ju Jitsu, Karate and Krav Combatives and Sensei Chris Higi, teaching Muay Thai, kickboxing and Judo, who join Shihan Steven Berkowitz, who teaches karate, Krav Maga, Tai Chi and American kenpo, and Shihan Emmanuel Ortega, teaching Hawaiian Kenpo Ju Jitsu and karate.
Women are welcome to come to a free Women’s Self-Defense Class Sunday, May 23, from 1-4 p.m., to be taught by the staff at MATI.
Martial Arts Training Institute is located at 1490 N.E. Pine Island Road, unit 7B, Cape Coral, in the plaza, Central Cape Business Park, across from Mel’s Diner.
For additional information, call 239-673-7740.
Roberts selected to serve on FDOT advisory group
Johnson Engineering’s Direc-tor of Environmental Services, Church Roberts, was recently selected to represent the Asso-ciation of Florida Community Developers Inc. and serve on the 2060 Florida Transportation Plan Community Livability, Environ-mental Stewardship and Mobility Advisory Group.
As part of this group, discussions will focus on the relationship between transportation policies and investment decisions involving community livability, land use and transportation, environmental stewardship, energy, air quality and greenhouse gas emissions, and public health.
The group will develop goals, objectives, and strategies to present to the full 2060 FTP Steering Committee.
Roberts has been with Johnson Engineering for more than 16 years and has been involved with environmental issues in South-west Florida throughout this time.
Founded in 1946, Johnson Engineering provides a complete range of services in land development, planning, landscape architecture, transportation, utilities, water resources, environmental consulting, surveying and mapping, and geographic information systems. The firm has offices in Fort Myers, Naples, Port Charlotte, LaBelle, and Land O’Lakes.
For additional information, contact Juli Kern at 239-461-2424 or visit the company’s Web site at www.johnsonengineering.com.
FPL participates in multiple ‘Power to Care’ events throughout state
Just days before Earth Day and in commemoration of National Volunteer Week, more than 1,000 Florida Power & Light Company employees and their families will volunteer this Saturday, April 17, in support of community service projects to benefit the environment and local charities.
This is FPL’s second annual Power to Care Day, which encourages employees to participate in one of more than 25 community volunteer projects throughout the company’s service territory. On this day alone, FPL volunteers will log approximately 4,000 hours with an estimated value to the community of $81,000.
In Lee County, FPL employees and executives will roll up their sleeves to support the following community events:
n Manatee Park – More than 35 FPL employees and their families will participate in a trash clean up and beautification project at the park, located at 5761 Palm Beach Blvd. (SR 80), Fort Myers, starting at 8:30 a.m.
n Habitat for Humanity – FPL employees and their families will work to prepare a new home for a local, low-income family, at 1288 N. Tamiami Trail, North Fort Myers, starting at 8:30 a.m.
Fafco Solar to hold open house to celebrate Earth Day
Fafco Solar, a Cape Coral solar energy solutions company, will be holding an open house to celebrate Earth Day. The open house takes place from April 19 to 23, 2010, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Attendees will be able to take a tour of Fafco’s Green Building, sign a “Declaration of Energy Independence,” and learn more about all the solar energy products offered by Fafco Solar.
Fafco will give those who attend a listing of other local Earth Day events, tips and suggestions for going green and a “Solar Bill of Rights” to take home with them.
The Fafco Solar team has over 116 years of pooled solar experience and is committed to reducing the use of fossil fuel to zero.
For additional information, call Fafco Solar at 239-574-1500.