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Business Observer | Business Observer

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Palm Avenue Properties buys small retail strip

Palm Avenue Properties, a company owned by prominent Sarasota developer Dr. Mark Kauffman, purchased a 1,900-square-foot retail strip along Palm Avenue west of Main Street for $410,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Sarasota County, North Port offer to buy Springs

Sarasota County and the city of North Port have offered to buy Warm Mineral Springs in North Port. The two municipalities proposed paying Cypress Lending Group Ltd. $6.5 million for the roughly 81-acre property.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Westshore's Sheraton Suites completes renovation

The Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore has completed a multimillion-dollar renovation.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Manatee County School Board moves MTI building to SR 70

The Manatee County School Board has approved moving a planned new Manatee Technical Institute facility to property it owns on State Road 70 and Caruso Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Popular bar to get new look

The Clubhouse Tavern, will be renamed Rusty Hook Tavern by its team of entrepreneurial owners.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 22, 2009
Watch grass grow, get a degree

Hodges University, which has campuses in Fort Myers and Naples, plans to offer an associate degree in turf grass management next year at the Kenneth Oscar Johnson School of Business.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Rail bill's own breakfast-gate

In an apparent attempt to evade capture by public records requests, “pancakes,” “waffles” and “French toast” were used as code words in e-mails about rail legislation between top officials at the Florida Department of Transportation and perhaps others involved in crafting the bill approved by the Legislature during the recent special session.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Good news: Speculators are back

Urban Land Institute gatherings on the Gulf Coast aren't as much fun as they used to be.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Economic Snapshot: September Building

Naples and Sarasota, two of the most difficult areas to obtain building permits, saw the biggest drops in building investment in the region in September on an annual percentage-change basis.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Company moves, EDC waives the flag

In some corners, the nugget that Bradenton-based Teltronics is moving from its old facility in southern Manatee County to newer digs in northern Manatee County is legitimate good news during a troubling economic time.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Mr. Campbell sends to Washington

One of the Gulf Coast's more successful businessmen is touting a plan — really just a simple rule change — that could have an impact worth billions of dollars and knock down the number of foreclosures.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Enemies among meat companies

Boar's Head Provisions, the nationwide deli meat company with a corporate headquarters in Sarasota, has found itself in a food fight with a competitor.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
McDonald was right: Exxon buys XTO Energy

Last week, Coffee Talk cited a conversation with John McDonald, senior managing director at Hyde Park Capital Partners, about the current market for mergers and acquisitions.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
Bank executive takes banking break

The Gulf Coast banking industry has an accomplishment to celebrate — one that has nothing to do with raising capital to stave off regulators.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2009
More funny stuff with rail vote?

A simple analysis of how Democrats and Republicans voted on the rail bill supported by Republican Gov. Charlie Crist shows that, for those legislators who voted against the bill, Democrats were nearly three times more likely to have voted “nay” than the traditionally more conservative Republicans.

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