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Business Observer | Business Observer

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  • Jean Gruss
  • November 19, 2009
Open receiver

Developer Kenneth Saundry Jr. spent 31 years in the real estate business in Florida building homes, RV parks, shopping centers and offices. Now, he's reinvented himself as a court receiver to manage distressed properties.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2009
County rehabs its business image

DemanData Systems, a Bradenton-based firm with a niche in developing supply chain software for health care companies. DemanData, with 40 local employees and another 60 employees outside Florida, had outgrown its office space and was seeking a new headquarters.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2009
Pizzuti attracted to public-private partnership

Pizzuti Solutions, the public-private division of the Columbus, Ohio-based Pizzuti Cos., is working on several new projects with governments in Florida, including two along the Gulf Coast in Dunedin and Naples.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 16, 2009
Tech start-ups boosted by STAR TEC

Five Tampa Bay-area technology entrepreneurs won support from the STAR Technology Enterprise Center, or STAR TEC, this week and will be getting office space and branding support from the organization.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
World-class lab hidden in Ybor

Few people would associate Ybor City with the phrase “biomedical research hub.”

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
More brain drain in development

Talented development professionals have felt the brunt of the real estate downturn and the uncertain outlook is forcing them to look outside the state.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
Wine and dine with the Redfords

Bidders in search of over-the-top auction lots at the Naples Winter Wine Festival won't be disappointed this year.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
August Business Investment

Taxable sales in the business-investment category in August fell more than statewide (-12.4%) in Naples, Sarasota and Fort Myers.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
Not so newsy: Bank needs capital

There was a time when regulatory orders, strictly written memos of understanding and other command-style communications from regulators to bankers was top news.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
First resident in waiting, and waiting

It may not be that unusual for a big city mayor-elect to have to wait a couple months to take office. But it's the first time for the city of St. Petersburg.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
Realtor tries to rock marketplace

Jim Soda, one of more prominent residential Realtors in Manatee and Sarasota counties, has tried all sorts of marketing techniques to sell houses during the recession.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
Tech start-ups recognized

Five Tampa Bay-area technology entrepreneurs won support from the STAR Technology Enterprise Center, or STAR TEC, this week and will be getting office space and branding support from the organization.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 13, 2009
Local executive lands new job

Tom Randle, one of the longest tenured credit union executives on the Gulf Coast, is going from building home loan portfolios to actually building homes.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 12, 2009
KAMCO Property Co. buys Manatee Woods, other units

Plano, Texas-based commercial real estate firm KAMCO Property Co. purchased the 212-unit Manatee Woods apartment complex on 4th Avenue Drive and 14 units in the nearby Serendipity condominium for $4.2 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 12, 2009
Florida investor group buys Spring Glade apartments

Elster/Rocatica LLC purchased the 78-unit Spring Glade apartments off 22nd Street north of Fletcher Avenue at a foreclosure auction for $915,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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