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Southeast Steel is ready to make a move for just the second time since the company was founded 85 years ago. But instead of relocating to the suburbs, the downtown appliance retailer wants to stay at its Amelia Street location in the heart of Orlando’s Central Business District, where it will move into a new building.

“I think just from the growth in Central Florida was just one of those things,” VP Spencer Kimball said. “We’ve outgrown the size of the building for our needs, and it was an opportunity that we’ve been exploring for quite some time. And now it’s gotten to the point of all right, let’s see if we can make it go right.”

Kimball’s grandfather founded Southeast Steel in 1940, and it’s been in the family ever since. They currently occupy a former produce packing warehouse that was built in 1918. “We were previously at the location where the bus station is now,” he said. “We moved here in 1978.”

Kimball, the third generation of the family to run the business, told GrowthSpotter they wanted a modern building — a “shiny new toy” — that paid homage to the company’s origin in the steel business. read more

SpaceX looks to knock out the Space Coast’s 18th launch of 2025 but now targeting Monday night.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites is targeting an 11:14 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a four-hour launch window. SpaceX had originally been targeting Sunday night.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts an 80% chance for good conditions at the launch site Monday.

This is the debut launch of the rocket’s first-stage booster, which will aim for a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed in the Atlantic.

SpaceX has flown all but one of the missions from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral this year, with Blue Origin’s New Glenn responsible for the other.

The Space Force at the beginning of the year had forecast up to 156 launches from the Space Coast in 2025, an average of 13 a month. It saw 10 in January, and this would be the eighth so far in February.

SpaceX has at least one more launch planned this month, a moonbound payload for commercial company Intuitive Machines with its Athena lunar lander set to lift off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A as early as Wednesday targeting a 7:17 p.m. liftoff. read more