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Business Observer | Business Observer

    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 5, 2025
$68M Tampa health tech firm appoints new CEO

The new leader has been with the company almost a decade.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 5, 2025
144-bed behavioral health hospital opening in North Port

The hospital specializes in helping those with mental health and substance use issues.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 5, 2025
Tom Brady is coming back to Hertz

The retired football star is staring in a new add for The Hertz Co.'s used car sales division, his second stint a pitchman for the Lee County rent-a-car chain.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 4, 2025
Local closures expected as Advance Auto, Red Robin shutter stores

The retailer and restaurant chains, joining a growing number of chains that are trimming store counts across the country and region, have said they plan to close locations.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 4, 2025
Former Tampa banker to serve 15 months, pay $400K in restitution for fraud

He will also forfeit $300k in assets obtained as a result of the crimes

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 4, 2025
Naples developer pays $26M for downtown Sarasota sites

The Lutgert Cos. has built more than a dozen projects in Naples.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Lesley Dwyer
  • March 4, 2025
Manatee County reconsiders buying shuttered fruit farm appraised at $16M

The property could become a county complex that includes a library, park and community center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 4, 2025
$150M Sarasota real estate firm merges with global agency

Living Vogue Real Estate has become part of eXp Realty.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 4, 2025
Report: Florida leads the South in CEO exits

The south has the second highest rate of departures.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 3, 2025
Los Angeles wellness chain coming to prime Tampa development

Local franchisees are opening a Pause Studio location in late March at Midtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 3, 2025
Boutique luxury home community coming to west Bradenton

Home prices at Tideline start at more than $980,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 3, 2025
Large Tampa office complex lands major tenant, nears full occupancy

The new tenant is expanding into three buildings on campus.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 3, 2025
Goodwill Manasota opens new donation center in Lakewood Ranch

The Goodwill donation center is in a “prime position,” according to the nonprofit’s senior director of real estate.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 3, 2025
Charlotte County hospital sells for $260 million, renamed

The purchase includes the land for ShorePoint Health Punta Gorda, a local hospital that closed year after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 2, 2025
Lee County hospital sells for $32M to Nashville health care group

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a refurbished Hilton opens in Fort Myers, a Tampa retailer built on controversial property sells, and more homes coming to North Port.

  • Florida
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