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Business Observer | Business Observer

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 26, 2009
The U.S. economy: 'Rescued to death'

Donald Luskin is not a Pollyanna by nature, and he is staying true to that when looking at our economic future.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 26, 2009
Ginn land auction sets a Naples floor

Fort Myers commercial developer and luxury homebuilder John McGarvey and two partners, Dan Gerner and Alan Freeman, bought 262 home lots and a clubhouse in North Naples called Quail West from Orlando developer Ginn Resorts for $13.5 million. Spread over the lots alone, that's $51,527 per lot.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 26, 2009
Snowbirds still come for sunshine

The line that 1,000 people move to Florida daily has been rendered obsolete in this sour economy. But frigid northern winters are still on our side.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2009
Gulf travel agency expands its menu

Admiral Travel Gallery, the Sarasota-based travel agency known for putting together star-studded cruises and safaris, has added another exclusive trip to its repertoire: A culinary journey with Bon Appetit magazine, the esteemed epicurean periodical.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 24, 2009
Condo-tel rooms for convention center?

For more than two decades, officials with the Manatee Convention Center have been trying to find a developer to build a hotel nearby. Now with the real estate market downturn maybe those vacant luxury condominiums next door in Riviera Dunes could be the answer to that need.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 24, 2009
Mack first to call for Geithner's ouster

At a time when Florida's governor has fallen under President Barack Obama's big-spending spell, one politician hasn't been entranced by stimulus siren song. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, who represents the area that stretches from Port Charlotte to Naples, became the first congressman to call for the ouster of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner this week.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 20, 2009
TRIM notice lacks truth and millage

The truth-in-millage notice, commonly known as the TRIM notice, that every property owner receives each year is supposed to give an estimate of proposed property taxes and assessments. But it apparently has lacked a degree of truth, not to mention the word “millage.”

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 20, 2009
Know what you want before you buy

Commercial retail broker Michael Milano with Colliers Arnold may be on to something.Milano recently closed a sale of the 143,000-square-foot Western Way shopping center in Brooksville for $11.5 million.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 20, 2009
Gulf Coast banker hits back

Century Bank President John O'Neil spent part of the past week in Washington, D.C. with some of the country's top banking regulators. He was there for a fight.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 13, 2009
Bank shrinks its executive base

Florida Bank Group, a Tampa-based institution trying to grow its presence statewide through a series of independent subsidiary banks, could be on the verge of a strategy shift.

  • News
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 26, 2009
Risk Redux

Developer Steven Kossoff has a knack for turning doubts into demonstrable success. Can he do it during a recession?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • February 26, 2009
Conservation Collision

A conservation group backed by millions of dollars from wealthy Naples residents is seeking tighter federal restrictions on large-scale development in rural Collier, Hendry and Lee counties.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 23, 2009
Landlords missing out on tax savings

In another possible indicator that conditions may be improving or at least changing in the residential real estate market, Realtor.com, one of the most visited real estate research Web sites is reporting more interest nationwide in discounted properties.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2009
Tampa Bull

More residents, events and a riverwalk are among the reasons Christine Burdick is bullish on downtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Partnership buys San Carlos building

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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