Take a drive down Northwest 60th Avenue and the distinctive blue and white buildings of Cordis will stand out.      The 69-year-old firm manufactures devices for cardiac patients, and its global headquarters is in Miami Lakes.       The company is expanding, and plans to fill up to 300 new, full-time jobs in town.       Its campus in Business Park East is also...

 Miami-Dade County has many programs to support small businesses and Manny Cid, asst. director for the Miami-Dade County Strategic Procurement Department, described some of them to the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce on March 11.      Whether it’s helping Mom and Pop firms launch with legal, staffing and marketing advice to winning bids for county contracts, Cid, a former town mayor and council member, said there...

    Chela’s Cocteleria has created more reasons to stay in town to party.      The Mexican restaurant’s goal: To offer high energy, culturally relevant experiences for Miami Lakers, says Marketing Director Vanessa Martinez.      Its target audiences are Generation X-ers (born after 1965) and millenials, born between 1981 to 1996, though women in their 40s are coming for the fun,...

     Another major sponsor was UniVida Medical Centers and George Garcia, director of Construction, and St. Thomas University, whom Dieguez also recognized that night.  Shown in the photo, from left: Council members Angelo Cuadra Garcia and Steven Herzberg; Mayor Josh Dieguez; Kimberly Trelles of The Trelles Cottage and her sons Grayson and Gabriel Trelles; Councilman Ray Garcia; Special Needs Advisory Board Chair Vivian...

     The Education Fund recognized Laura W. Ratliff, one of three sponsors it spotlighted during its annual Taste of Education at Hialeah Park on Feb. 24. Ratliff is a vice president and the commercial portfolio manager at The Graham Companies.  Both The Graham Companies and The Education Fund are based in Miami Lakes. For more than 35 years the developers have supported the Fund and its projects.    ...