Recipe for success

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 10:00 a.m. November 28, 2014
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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In a six-year effort to transform a shuttered steakhouse restaurant on Longboat Key, Sarasota real estate investor W. Howard Rooks, even with his decades of experience, faced a formidable adversary: the recession.

 

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