Vroom's Tom Shortt: Growth had to slow in 2022
Shortt said the company didn’t set a target for sales in 2023, instead focusing on buying vehicles, selling them while reducing costs in several areas.
Biden delays bid to grant electric carmakers renewable fuel credits
The proposal was excluded from drafted regulation setting biofuel-blending quotas for the next three years that is undergoing final review at the White House.
Axiom’s private mission inches commercial space station dreams closer to reality
Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station. The company is ready to do it again, but with more focus on its endgame: having its own commercial space station in what could potentially be a crowded playing field in low-Earth orbit.
“The goals of these missions, which we sometimes call precursor missions, are to build up first the Axiom internal operations capability — the tools, the processes — to train flight controllers that are going to be required down the line to operate our Axiom Station in the future,” said Axiom Space’s Derek Hassmann, chief of mission integration and operations.
The Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) flight is slated to send a crew of four to the International Space Station inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A.
Liftoff is targeted for Sunday at 5:37 p.m. with a lone backup opportunity on Monday at 5:14 p.m.
Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts only a 60% chance for good conditions with worse weather predicted for Monday. Because of a busy schedule at the ISS as well as competing uses for the KSC launch pad, if the rocket can’t go up in this window, the mission could see a delay into at least August.
Apopka mayor asks state to strip project of affordable housing money
After Apopka was sued for denying an affordable housing project, a judge sided with the developer and determined that the city was violating state statutes by not allowing it on land reserved for its city center.
In the months that followed that December court ruling, the city still has not granted permits to Wendover Housing Partners for its 192-unit Southwick Commons project and the mayor has launched an effort to strip the project of its state funding. Now, the Altamonte Springs-based developer is threatening more litigation, according to a report in GrowthSpotter.
The Florida Housing Finance Corporation approved $10.8 million in loans and tax credits in 2020 for Wendover’s Southwick Commons project. That included $7 million from the State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL) program. According to state documents, the project calls for five units to be set aside at 22% of the Area Median Income, 30 units at 30% of the AMI, 120 units at 60% AMI, and 45 units at 80% AMI.
The loan commitments were set to expire on Dec. 29 but Wendover was granted a six-month extension to complete the underwriting because of delays from the city. Now the June 29 deadline is coming up, and Wendover can’t get their loans without a permit.
11 charged with stealing cars from 26 dealerships in Ohio
At one dealership, prosecutors said, some of the suspects gave a salesperson their real names while casing the showroom before stealing from it the same night.