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  • February 10, 2012
Fort Myers Preparatory & Fitness relocating to Robb & Stucky building

Fort Myers Preparatory & Fitness Academy plans to use a former Robb & Stucky warehouse and showroom as the new Fort Myers home for its charter school.

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  • February 10, 2012
Reliant Group investment fund buys Woodbury Apartments

CAP VI- Eden Pointe, an affiliated fund of The Reliant Group, purchased the 270-unit Woodbury Apartments in Bradenton for $11.2 million.

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  • February 10, 2012
German investor 1030 International buys Marco Island Walgreens

An undisclosed German investor, operating as 1030 International Speedway Boulevard Ltd., purchased a 14,467-square-foot Walgreens building on Marco Island for $5.7 million.

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  • February 10, 2012
Sarasota permits: $2.7M of work

A pair of Target renovations account for most of the commercial activity.

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  • February 10, 2012
Farm firm sells $25M in crops

Alico saw its revenues from agricultural operations increase by 60%.

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  • February 10, 2012
Time Warner chooses Westshore

The company announced an expansion of staff and space in September.

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  • February 10, 2012
Spirit connects Tampa to DFW

The discount airline will connect the two southern cities starting in May.

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  • February 10, 2012
What a (bank) bargain

Fort Lauderdale-based Stonegate Bank told its shareholders it got a great deal when it bought Fort Myers-based Southwest Capital Bank and First Commercial Bank of Tampa Bay.

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  • February 10, 2012
Corporate Report: Feb. 10

The latest from AVI-SPL, Versatile Packagers, and other Gulf Coast companies.

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  • February 10, 2012
Gulf Coast Week: Feb. 10

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • February 9, 2012
Board gets tough on capital expenditures

When Gov. Rick Scott appointed six new trustees at the State College of Florida last summer, he made a point to say the board, and its peers statewide, should prioritize fiscal prudence.

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  • February 9, 2012
Lester inducted to Citrus Hall of Fame

W. Bernard Lester, the former president and CEO of Alico, will be inducted into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame March 2.

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  • February 9, 2012
Give up! It'll help our unemployment rate

A report on the state of the local economy from Sarasota County details a 17.4% drop in the unemployment rate from December 2010 to December 2011 — good news, to be sure.

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  • February 9, 2012
A parade of recovery

Here's more evidence of a housing recovery.

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  • February 9, 2012
Foreigners eyeing St. Pete real estate

Point2 Homes, a website that lists real estate throughout the country, shows that the highest traffic to the site's residential home listings came from our neighbors to the north.

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