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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 13, 2024
Breeze adds Connecticut flights to Sarasota, Fort Myers

Breeze Airways is adding routes to southwest Florida from New Haven, Connecticut.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • August 13, 2024
Long-serving president of Florida Southern College retires

The incoming president will kick off the fall semester.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 13, 2024
Michael Saunders & Co. buys land for south Sarasota County office

The real estate company plans to construct an office and a building for lease in Wellen Park.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 12, 2024
Florida Supreme Court rejects bankers' request in funding dispute

The state's bankers’ association says that despite this latest setback, it will continue pushing to change the current IOTA rule approved last year.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 12, 2024
Broker: $2.3M Sarasota complex sale shows 'market stabilization'

The Class B and C multifamily sector should "continue to stabilize," says Sean Dreznin, agent and partner in Dreznin Pappas Commercial Real Estate.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 12, 2024
Big Lots to close 6 stores in region

After losses due to declines in consumer spending, Big Lots is shuttering some stores from Port Richey to Naples.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • August 12, 2024
Tampa bitcoin company gets $5.6M loan to buy Texas mining facility

LM Funding, a bitcoin-mining company based in Tampa, announced a letter of intent to purchase a mining facility in Texas after securing a $5.6 million loan last week.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 11, 2024
Walmart shopping center in Brandon sells for $6.9 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, matching Sarasota apartment buildings sell, a CRE firm closes a deal and wins a prize in Fort Myers, and an interesting Lakeland property is on the market.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 10, 2024
Sarasota firm ranks among top 13 construction insurance companies in US

FCCI Insurance Group received top ratings based on surveys with hundreds of brokers nationwide, according to Insurance Business America.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • August 9, 2024
Subsidiary of Tampa insurance firm hits $1B premium milestone

Second quarter earnings nudged the firm into new territory.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 9, 2024
Wolfgang Puck restaurant may be coming to Punta Gorda Airport

Plans for the Punta Gorda Airport terminal expansion include a Wolfgang Puck Kitchen + Bar.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 8, 2024
Newly built 279-unit Sarasota County apartment complex sold

Tropia in Wellen Park, an apartment community built in 2023, changed hands.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • August 8, 2024
Court rules against St. Pete in construction hiring ordinance case

The city of St. Petersburg decided not to appeal the court decision.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 8, 2024
Construction begins on 211 apartments in Riverview

A Chicago developer that's been active in Tampa is building the apartment community on Big Bend Road.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 8, 2024
Child welfare nonprofit names new board officers

The Safe Children Coalition named three new officers for its board of directors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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