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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Florida Living Options files Hawthorne site plan

Assisted-living facility owner and operator Florida Living Options has filed a site plan to develop its Hawthorne Manor skilled nursing facility on the five acres at the southeast corner of DeSoto Road and Honore Avenue in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Sarasota Memorial looks at Brownfield site

Officials with Sarasota Memorial Health Care System are exchanging information with the city of Sarasota over the future of a 13-acre parcel on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way between U.S. 301 and Mango Avenue.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Commercial property sales remain frozen

A recent report by Real Capital Analytics shows just how powerful the credit freeze was on commercial real estate sales in the Tampa Bay region last year.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
HMA sees Florida recovery

Hospital visits may not be pleasant, but patient growth is a good leading economic indicator.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
First Watch eats away at Oklahoma competition

First Watch, the Lakewood Ranch-based breakfast, brunch and lunch chain, has taken a bite out of the competition: An Oklahoma City-based restaurateur has sold his interest in five IHOP restaurants in order to sign a multi-unit franchise agreement with First Watch.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Pulse of the market: faint, but still alive

The latest pulse of the commercial real estate market from LoopNet is much like the market itself: Not too good.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Ford chief Mulally wins over retirees

Retirees are often a company's harshest critics.It was no exception for Ford Motor Co. President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, who faced a tough crowd in Bonita Springs recently. Despite the fact that Ford posted a profitable year in 2009, grumpy retirees milling about before Mulally's presentation weren't exactly singing the company's praises.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Hyde Park Builders on 'Extreme Makeover'

Tampa-based Hyde Park Builders will get a national boost when the company appears on a popular ABC program in May.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Political grudge trumps budget deficits

Declining property values and budget deficits weren't enough to convince Charlotte County Commissioners to go along with naming its Tampa Bay Rays spring training stadium Mosaic Field at Charlotte Sports Park.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
You can't have it both ways in Lee

It's no surprise that Lee County Administrator Karen Hawes blogs as a cheerleader for the county's economic development programs considering the county suffers as much as any in the nation from foreclosures, declining property values and high unemployment.

  • News
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • February 25, 2010
Management Stars

Property management companies are lining up to help banks and other lenders manage distressed commercial real estate. It's one of the few bright spots in an industry decimated by the recession.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 24, 2010
Bank raises profile with new hire

The Sarasota-Manatee unit of Whitney National Bank has hired Chris Pennewill, Jr., a well-known local executive, to run its commercial banking division.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
McNichols took on 'way different job'

Even in today's hyper online social networking, it pays to attend business lunches.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Groups use litigation, again

Environmental groups continue to be aggressive pursuing litigation when not prevailing with government bureaucracy or legislatures.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
November Consumer Durables

Naples was the last area of the Gulf Coast region to feel the effects of the economic downturn and that's reflected in the steepest year-over-year decline in consumer durable taxable sales in November.

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