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Business Observer | Business Observer

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 21, 2012
Wear shorts, stay for a long time

Sarasota tourism officials responded to a pair of thumping setbacks suffered over the past year with a new, and aggressive, attack plan.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 20, 2012
Naples home prices rise

Home prices rose and inventory continued to shrink in Naples in June.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 20, 2012
Company plans to add 300 jobs

An Indianapolis company expands facility, plans to add 300 jobs in three years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 20, 2012
Insurance firm targets Florida

A national company with a focus on small business clients buys two local firms.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 20, 2012
Prominent business changes ownership

A saga more than two years in the making inside the corner office at one of the region's largest locally owned tree and landscaping businesses is officially over.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Businesses grow cautious

Business executives are more cautious today, a recent survey shows.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Business owners get prison time

Two Hillsborough residents sentenced to federal prison for battery theft operation.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Sarasota residents reject taxes

Residents, in a countywide survey, oppose any new taxes or expanded services.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Sarasota County hospital district buys Hillview medical building

The price equated to $269 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Louisiana culinary company buys former Coke distribution building

The price equated to $30 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Pinellas' Brookside Gardens sells for $975,000

The price equated to $22,159 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Tampa Electric buys land near its Eastern Operations Center

The price equated to $87,196 per acre.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
Minto Communities buys land for gated Bonita Isles community

The price equated to $50,000 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
New York's Ninigret Group buys Northbrooke Plaza

The price equated to $141 per square foot.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 17, 2012
From worst to first

Some of the metro areas that suffered the most in the real estate collapse saw some impressive year-over-year house-price gains in July.

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