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  • January 16, 2015
Lee Drywall buys Bill Creek building for additional storage

Lee Drywall Inc. purchased a 40,023-square-foot industrial building for $1.31 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Casto Southeast buys land for future Port Charlotte project

The real estate firm Casto purchased 12.2 acres on Veterans Boulevard west of Cochran Boulevard for $1.03 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Investors buy industrial land on Englewood's River Road

Investors Daniel and Leah Light, Shannon Pirron, an investment managed by Randy Thibaut and the Joan M. Reese Revocable Trust purchased 93.2 acres of industrial land for $1 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Yea for Entrepreneurs

The Young Entrepreneurs Academy, with eight locations in Florida and more than 100 nationwide in 37 states, will make its debut on the Gulf Coast later this year.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Hizzoner joins bank board

Randy Henderson may be best known as the mayor of Fort Myers, but fewer people may know his early career was in banking.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Gainesville's Collier Cos. buys Camden Lakeside apartments

Gainesville-based apartment company The Collier Cos. purchased the 228-unit Camden Lakeside apartments in Brandon for $22.35 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
2015 surprises: office, industrial growth

As Wells Fargo Senior Economist Mark Vitner wound down his 2015 forecast Wednesday in Sarasota for the members of the Gulf Coast CEO Forum, he saved his headline news for last:The biggest economic surprise in 2015 for Florida, Vitner predicted, will be “how substantially the single-family housing market will have rebounded and how office and industrial will have done as well as it did.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Naples firm navigates Hollywood

Filming a fast-boat chase through the Hong Kong Harbor at night and navigating a 1,000-foot ship with helicopters through the Malacca Straights, one of the world's busiest ship channels, takes a steady hand at the helm.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Headquarters sweepstakes heats up

The big to-do in national corporate headquarters relocation news so far for 2015 is Mercedes-Benz blowing out of New Jersey for metro Atlanta.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Mattamy Homes buys development land in Forest Lakes Golf and Country Club

Mattamy Homes purchased 24 acres near the northeast corner of Beneva Road and Webber Street for $5.88 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Real estate market looks bright

The national commercial real estate market is fairly healthy going into 2015, according to an analysis from global property firm CBRE Group.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Brightwork Real Estate buys ranch land for Wawa

Brightwork Real Estate Inc. purchased 2.14 acres at the intersection of State Road 70 and Lorraine Road for $1.2 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2015
Michigan real estate firm McKinley buys Liv @ Boca Ciega waterfront apartments

Ann Arbor, Mich.-based real estate firm McKinley Inc. purchased the 50-unit Liv @ Boca Ciega apartments in South Pasadena for $6 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 15, 2015
Enviro-Serv buying Tampa Pestmaster franchise

The company believes the pest-control company will give it greater access to government contracts.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 15, 2015
Hodges names business dean

Hodges University named Aysegul Timur dean of the Johnson School of Business, where she has been teaching since 2000.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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