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  • December 31, 2009
Find the Bottom

With rental rates down and vacancies up, will 2010 drag commercial property owners further underwater or to some needed stability?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 31, 2009
COVER UPDATE: Quiet Consulting

The focus on big-headache public sector environmental work has helped Tampa Contracting Services stay successful. But going forward, Dan Harte will need to do more — and plans to do it quietly.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 31, 2009
Economic Snapshot: South Florida Inflation

Inflation remains tame in South Florida, led by declines in apparel and recreation. The only category that showed a meaningful year-over-year increase was “other goods and services,” which rose 8.6%.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 31, 2009
Entrepreneur aims at small businesses

Mike Sisti, founder of a Sarasota-based branding and marketing firm, plans to spend some of 2010 getting out a message of his own: Small businesses and entrepreneurs need to start banding together against government power grabs before it's too late.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 25, 2009
Economic Snapshot: Gulf Coast Employment

The Gulf Coast has lost nearly 91,000 jobs in the one-year period ending Nov. 30.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Going to the back to make a comeback

Erik Vonk, a banking and staffing industry executive who has been credited with both saving and nearly wrecking the same Gulf Coast human resources firm, is back in the business.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Gulf Coast bank stocks rally on news

The publicly traded stocks of two beleaguered Florida bank-holding companies in Naples, TIB Financial and Bank of Florida, surged earlier this week on news that former Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Hugh McColl is among a group of investors seeking to invest in Florida bank assets.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Top consumer priority: Save more money in 2010

Sean Tennant works for Edward Jones as a financial advisor in St. Petersburg, and he's pleased with the results of his company's latest survey.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Tell it to the judge: Earth Justice may have lied

When state agriculture and consumer services commissioner Charles Bronson appeared before a state Senate committee Dec. 9, he didn't mince words about a new federal standard.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Small investment brings validation dividends

To Roger Branton, the recent $50,000 investment in his $16 million mobile phone technology company is worth infinitely more than the extra cash, at least in terms of what the company is really going after: Validation.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Insiders to lead Barron Collier

Paul Marinelli will have been the last family outsider and chief executive of the family owned Barron Collier Companies, at least for a while.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Hometown Democracy or Mutually Assured Destruction?

Hometown Democracy, the state constitutional amendment going to voters in November, is known in some circles merely as “HD” and also increasingly as Amendment 4 because that's the number assigned to it on the ballot.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Travel agents look to space

Sarasota-based travel agents Ryan and Malaka Hilton have been making a name for themselves in international circles by putting together eclectic trips with starry guest hosts.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
New Jersey contractor buys South Bay

Perry Pavicic, who owns a New Jersey construction rehab company, purchased the 44-unit South Bay Apartments at the southwest corner of Dale Mabry Highway and Wisconsin Avenue for $500,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Shirley Ann Hotel owners buy Kelly Hotel

Hoteliers Bruce Gramaila and Gary Kalberg of the Shirley Ann Hotel in St. Petersburg purchased the nearby historic 65-room Kelly Hotel at the southwest corner of 1st Avenue and Florida 687 for $910,000.

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