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  • February 20, 2014
Stock of cancer lab takes a hit

Uncertainty from Medicare reimbursements causes a 14% drop in the share price of NeoGenomics.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 20, 2014
Exec tees it up in print

FCCI Insurance Group human resources executive Lisa Krouse didn't take up golf until 2010, when she was 52 years old, but she quickly became addicted.

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  • February 19, 2014
Court halts Channelside Bay Plaza sale

Irish Bank Resolution Corp. was ordered to conduct further due diligence on the retail property before it can sell it.

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  • February 19, 2014
Bonita Springs chain pinches Tampa area

Pinchers Crab Shack is expanding to the Tampa Bay area in June with a new restaurant in the Shops at Wiregrass.

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  • February 19, 2014
Branding firms forge new entity

Boost Studio and Digital Frontiers Media are now boostDFM.

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  • February 19, 2014
Smoking hot business grows like a weed

New personal marijuana use laws in Washington state and Colorado have pushed a Pasco County business from super-busy to unhinged, send-in-the-reinforcements, crazy hectic.

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  • February 18, 2014
Pension fund buys Channelside apartments for $76.5M

Miami developer Related Group sells its new 356-unit apartment to the state public pension fund.

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  • February 18, 2014
Sarasota-Bradenton housing starts up 41.8%

Region is back to 2006 levels for new homes under construction.

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  • February 18, 2014
Lee hotel revenues jump

Higher occupancies pushed revenues up 19% at Lee County hotels in December.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 18, 2014
It's good to be second

The commercial real estate theme for 2014 seems to be this: Investors are moving out of the big cities and into secondary markets such as Tampa and Southwest Florida.

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  • February 17, 2014
Lennar hires new land acquisition manager

The national homebuilder appoints Jim McCarthy, a former vice president of land acquisition for both M/I Homes and KB Home.

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  • February 17, 2014
Naples home prices spike 45%

The median price of an existing single-family home in Naples reached $340,000 in January.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 17, 2014
Pirates buy Bradenton eatery for expansion

The team plans to add parking spots on the property.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • February 17, 2014
Supply of new homes shrinks

That's all the supply of finished but vacant new homes in Lee and Collier's master-planned communities based on current sales pace, according to market tracker Metrostudy.

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  • February 14, 2014
Finance chief indicted for embezzlement

The former controller of a Naples developer was charged with embezzling $2.4 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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