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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 7, 2017
Hotel trades Hulk Hogan for South Beach

Oxford Capital Group has completed phase one of the Bay Harbor Hotel renovation project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 7, 2017
Developer breaks ground on $95M senior living project

Avida Senior Living will be Quadrum Global's first U.S. senior residence project

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2017
Design firm expands market presence

The deal gives Haneke entry into Sarasota and Bradenton

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2017
Manufacturing CEO to take leave of absence

Jim Fredlake hopes to return later this year

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
Medical system promotes physician to new leadership role

The promotion is part of a push to improve patient care.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Back from the brink

An Illinois developer has plans to revitalize a Tampa eyesore.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Some runway left

Signs of a CRE bubble are emerging elsewhere. But Southwest Florida seems primed for future growth.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Tampa area brokerages shake up

A trio of top Tampa commercial real estate brokerages have kicked off 2017 with some high-level personnel moves.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Maryland firm buys Lee site for apartments

One of the Baltimore area's best-known development firms has acquired a 37.6-acre tract in Fort Myers, where it plans an “upscale” apartment community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
Mr. Russell goes to Washington

Sarasota Housing Authority Executive Director William Russell headed to Washington, D.C., a few days before Inauguration Day — but not for the parties or the protests.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
IN MEMORIAM | Wendel Kent 1924-2017

A trio of well-connected Sarasota business executives, over lunch one day in 1982, decided they could no longer stay quiet against what they considered an unfriendly business environment. They specifically geared up to contest a proposed two-year moratorium on new construction.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
Make it real

Babcock Ranch now has an official “first family.”

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
Hall gets two new members

A pair of prominent Southwest Florida business leaders are the latest to get the call from the hall: Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will induct Teri Hansen and Sandy Stilwell into the Business Hall of Fame, Lee County, later this year.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
The Outsiders

Visit Florida can sure show the money.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2017
Car dealer steers a victory

Tampa-area auto dealer John Williams and some fellow auto executives spent a portion of the past few months checking out all kinds of luxury — for research.

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