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  • March 29, 2013
Report: Little-known tax will cost Fla. jobs

The NFIB says an Obamacare provision could reduce Florida employment by 10,000 jobs by 2022.

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  • March 29, 2013
Dunk City, aka Fort Myers, rides team's success

Area businesses jump on the FGCU cheering squad.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
National burger chain chews Florida debut

Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers will move into an empty Arby's.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Sharing, in this case, can be good for business

Sarasota-based Advershares, which calls itself a social commerce network, is entering the crazily fast-growing mobile apps industry.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Dunk this: FGCU is Free Market U.

It's not every day that an economics department gets national media attention. Fact is, most scientists labor in obscurity.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Longtime PR counsel joins foundation

Carolyn Rogers, a well-known Fort Myers public-relations professional, is closing up shop and joining the Southwest Florida Community Foundation.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Neal Communities buys land for Colonial Lakes on Winkler

The price equated to $86,792 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Massachusetts' DeMatteo Properties buys New Port Richey Dollar General

The price equated to $147 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Center for Allied Health & Nursing buys Sabal Park office building

The price equated to $54 per square feet.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Sarasota couple opening new Italian restaurant

The price equated to $198 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Fort Myers Patel family buys two Clark hotels

The price equated to $40,432 per room.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Lakewood Ranch couple buys 16 flex condo units

The price equated to $40.50 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Kolter Group files plans for revised Gulfstream project

The developer of the undeveloped 17-story Grande Sarasotan project for downtown Sarasota has submitted new plans to the city for a condominium-hotel development on the 2.9-acre parcel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 29, 2013
Wal-Mart Stores Inc buys Nebraska Avenue land for supercenter

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. purchased roughly 20 acres of land at the northwest corner of Bearss and Nebraska avenues for $5.6 million.

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  • March 29, 2013
Baptist Slavic church buys New Life center building

The price equated to $72 per square foot.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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