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Business Observer | Business Observer

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Northern Gulf Coast better in real estate

As painful as the real estate market may feel, at least half of the Gulf Coast appeared to have faired better than the rest of the state over the past four months.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Big-name attorneys team up in Tampa

Tampa attorney Fred Zinober is big on big cases and on making sure people know he is big on big cases.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Sarasota-Manatee

Mainsail Development Group buys lodge

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Mainsail Development Group buys lodge

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  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Gurley Leep buys, renames Gateway Honda

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  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
TIB Bank takes back three properties

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  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Tampa Bay

Gurley Leep buys, renames Gateway Honda

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Lee-Collier

TIB Bank takes back three properties

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 13, 2009
Aquarium director dies of heart attack

Jeff Swanagan, 52, the man who helped start the financial turnaround at the Florida Aquarium in downtown Tampa as its former director, has died in Columbus, Ohio of an apparent heart attack.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 9, 2009
Abel Band law firm folds into Shumaker

One of Sarasota's most high-profile law firms, practicing everything from trademark secret cases to condo law disputes, is being blended in to a larger Ohio-based firm.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 7, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Tampa Bay

U.S. Juice Holdings LLCbuys East Pointe Park center

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 7, 2009
Entrepreneur: 'It's time to buy land'

Prominent Lakewood Ranch-based homebuilder Pat Neal knows the real estate market is strewn with the remains of investors that were positive the residential market had hit bottom. Even so, he is willing to bet it's fallen far enough.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 3, 2009
Feds temporarily shelve panther protection request

The federal government has shelved a petition by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida to designate panther habitat in a large swath of Collier, Lee and Hendry counties, handing landowners there a reprieve for now.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 2, 2009
New technology for Lee County tourism

The travel industry was one of the first to be rocked by the recession. So companies that specialize in lowering the cost of vacation packages have grown in demand.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 1, 2009
FDIC approves Naples bank merger

In the midst of the credit collapse and tightening federal standards, opening a bank on the Gulf Coast has been all but impossible.

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