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  • January 24, 2014
GL Homes buys 550-acre piece of Naples' TwinEagles development

The price equated to $63,636 per acre based on the rough acreage.

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  • January 24, 2014
Air Products completes work on Port Manatee manufacturing plant

Air Products says the location near Port Manatee will allow it ship the large equipment it produces globally and in larger sizes than what is currently being built.

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  • January 24, 2014
Laundry Plus moving north, buys larger industrial building

The price equated to $30 per square foot.

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  • January 24, 2014
Tampa restaurateurs buy former Tokyo Restaurant building

The price equated to $454 per square foot.

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  • January 24, 2014
Lowry Park Zoo receives tax-free loan to build animal care complex

The Lowry Park Zoological Society plans to develop a new animal-care complex.

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  • January 24, 2014
Safety Harbor real estate investor buys Fountain Court Apartments

The price equated to $49,839 per unit.

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  • January 24, 2014
Miami Lakes' Kislak Organization buys Twin Lakes Apartments

The price equated to $75,000 per unit.

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  • January 23, 2014
Homeowners Choice: state's first flood insurer

Company covering Seminole single-family home for below Biggert-Waters dictated premium increase to federal flood-insurance program.

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  • January 23, 2014
Port Manatee cement plant part of $720M deal

A Colombian concrete and cement firm seeks to grow its Florida presence.

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  • January 23, 2014
Feds approve hospital deal

Federal regulators approved Community Health Systems' $7.6 billion acquisition of Health Management Associates.

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  • January 23, 2014
It's gotta be the shoes

A Sarasota firm with U.S. distribution rights for Blackstone shoes, a popular canvas-style brand in Europe, found some unusual partners for its latest marketing initiative: Retired basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal and the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.

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  • January 22, 2014
Craft Equipment relocating longtime headquarters

The Tampa-based firm is relocating to Massaro Boulevard to keep up with its growth the past three years.

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  • January 22, 2014
PGT stretches national sales department

Firm adds two sales executives to continue post-recession comeback.

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  • January 22, 2014
Fort Myers single-family sales rise 24%

The median price of an existing single-family home in the Fort Myers area rose to $177,000 in December.

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  • January 22, 2014
Broker seeks national attention for niche lease

Tampa area commercial real estate broker David Sobelman, who literally wrote the book on triple net lease investments, is about to take the niche investment approach to another audience.

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