SRQ Magazine | February 2022 | Engaging With the Titans of Business

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february 2022

friendly skies

Two years after a pandemic reduced passenger traffic to nearly nothing, SRQ International Airport just closed a record year. Now there’s a $60 million expansion with a new terminal opening soon. Written by Jacob Ogles | Photography by Wyatt Kostygan

medical advance

Even as it faces a public health crisis, Sarasota Memorial Hospital reached upward and outward in 2021, serving the community in more places and ways than ever before.Written by Jacob Ogles | Photography by Wyatt Kostygan

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SRQ Airport President and CEO Rick Piccolo on the tarmac, photo by Wyatt Kostygan.

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SRQ Magazine | February 2022 | Engaging With the Titans of Business

Published on Jan 31, 2022

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This month, it's all about popcorn-colored fashion, streetside Mediterranean coffee at Bradenton's new Kefi cafe, local craft beer cans and Gulf Coast-approved Vital Wetsuits for women's surfing. SRQ also hits the high notes with interviews with revered musical talents who are making an imprint on the area such as Sarasota Orchestra's new award-winning music director, Bramwell Tovey, as well as Sarasota Opera's tenor, Willian Davenport. SRQ Airport's CEO Frederick Piccolo shares why our region's airport is now one of the fastest-growing airports in the world and Sarasota Memorial Health Care's CEO David Verinder and Sarasota Campus President Lorrie Liang discuss the hospital's exponential growth and evolution to better serve the community. With diverse content that ranges from fun and conversational to poignant and newsworthy, get your local fix of stories this month.

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