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  • January 23, 2015
Tulsa private equity firm buys Lake Osprey Plaza

Private equity firm GBR Properties Inc. purchased the 32,600-square-foot Lake Osprey Plaza retail strip center for $3.68 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
If you could do it all over

A large majority of entrepreneurs, 86%, would remain entrepreneurs if they had a chance to start over, according to a new survey — but they would invest their time and money differently.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
First Watch serves up substantial move

East Manatee County-based breakfast-brunch-lunch chain First Watch was in business more than 20 years before it opened its first franchise location.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Lee commercial recovers

Commercial construction is coming back to Lee County, an area hit hard by the economic downturn.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Southern expansion pays off

When Sarasota homebuilder Pat Neal was scouting land in Lee and Collier counties in 2011, the recovery was far from a sure thing.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Stock Development buys estate lots in Esplanade

Naples-based Stock Development LLC purchased 25 lots in a private cul-de-sac in the Esplanade Golf and Country Club of Naples for $6.08 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Real Estate investor buys Main Street building

Business owner and real estate investor Chris Brown purchased a 7,386-square-foot auto repair shop at the corner of Pine Place for $1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Housing Trust Group developing Whispering Palms Apartments

Housing Trust Group purchased a 4.4-acre site just east of Seminole Boulevard in Largo for $1.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Set course for Wasmer Reef

Martin Wasmer is well known in money management circles, but now his name will be associated with great fishing and scuba diving, too.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Aloia Roland & Lubell law firm buys Doc Plaza building

The Fort Myers law firm of Aloia Roland & Lubell LLP purchased the 6,112-square-foot Doc Plaza office building for $1.3 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Charleston Management Co. buys Tanglewood Marketplace

Charleston Management Co. LLC, a Naples company affiliated with Marblehead, Mass.-based financial holding company S.J. Lockwood & Co. LLC, purchased the 48,735-square-foot Tanglewood Marketplace for $10.5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Firm led by Canadian businessman buys Global Court industrial building

A company led by William Boris Petron, owner of Ontario-based Magnus Logistics Solutions Inc., purchased a 31,034-square-foot office and warehouse building for 1.7 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Entrepreneurial group seeks growth

The area chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization, recently named one of a dozen organizations entrepreneurs need to join by Entrepreneur magazine, has dream-large plans for the Gulf Coast in 2012.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2015
Westshore 500 office building purchased for $20.9 million

Atlanta-based Fairlead Commercial Real Estate and equity partner Bridge Investment Group Partners purchased the 129,728-square-foot Westshore 500 office building for $20.9 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2015
Westchase firm nabs best product honors

The Eva-Dry dehumidifier was named best product of 2014 by Design Journal.

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