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  • Elizabeth King
  • June 19, 2024
Sarasota kombucha company partners with national grocery chain

221 B.C. Kombucha is launching a line inside Harris Teeter stores.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • June 19, 2024
Developing Manatee County community to hit $75M in new home sales

North River Ranch, a master-planned community in Parrish, is approaching a sales milestone.

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  • Mark Gordon
  • June 19, 2024
Naples health care tech CEO invests $1M in firm — despite $20M in losses

HealthLynked Corp. CEO has an "unwavering belief in the company's mission."

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  • Laura Lyon
  • June 18, 2024
$10B bank based outside Miami names Tampa, Central Florida leader

Mike Nursey joins Amerant Bank as Central Florida market president.

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  • Louis Llovio
  • June 18, 2024
Notorious Clearwater motel site to become affordable housing development

Construction will officially kick off this week on a four-story apartment building near downtown where the Economy Inn once stood.

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  • Elizabeth King
  • June 18, 2024
Sarasota finance agency acquired by national wealth management firm

Atlas Fiduciary Financial in Sarasota, which manages $219 million in client assets, was acquired by a national wealth management company.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • June 18, 2024
Farm-to-table restaurant Naked Farmer opening in Sarasota

A restaurant concept that started in St. Pete is opening its seventh location, at University Town Center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • June 18, 2024
$12M Naples soap, wellness brand names new CFO

Naples Soap Co., a health and wellness brand known for skin and hair care products, has named veteran financial executive Richard James Kujak CFO.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Elizabeth King
  • June 17, 2024
Event space owner opens Sarasota location, second in region

Celebrations Venue in Sarasota is owned by an entrepreneur with a Brandon location as well.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • June 17, 2024
Prosecutors seek second contempt charge, jail for AeroVanti founder

Maryland prosecutors are asking a federal judge to force Patrick Britton-Harr to produce documents related to his finances or incarcerate him until he complies.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • June 17, 2024
Apartment complex in Sarasota sells for $43M

Huntington Place Apartments more than doubled in value in the past 11 years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • June 17, 2024
Business Observer 2024 40 Under 40 nominations now open

The Business Observer's annual 40 Under 40 issue celebrates the best of the best of the up-and-comers.

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  • June 16, 2024
Developer pays nearly $18M for 195 acres along I-75 in Punta Gorda

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota tower is approved, four Tampa properties are included in $1.5 billion portfolio sale, and a Cape Coral pizza joint opens.

  • Florida
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  • Louis Llovio
  • June 15, 2024
City vote on Rays stadium, development a 'regulatory' but hopeful step

After years of fighting to get a new stadium built in the city, or elsewhere, a St. Pete City Council vote last week is a positive, though tentative, step forward for the team and its fans.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • June 14, 2024
Florida business owner charged with running human trafficking ring

The attorney general highlighted a human trafficking case out of spas in Manatee and Hillsborough counties in pointing to the need for a newly formed state task force.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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