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  • July 20, 2011
Charlotte airport takes off

Allegiant Air leads passenger traffic growth in Punta Gorda.

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  • July 20, 2011
Reporting for duty at ... Starbucks?

To help accommodate the tech-savvy ways of its agents, John R. Wood Realtors Inc. is trying to make its offices look like coffee shops.

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  • July 19, 2011
Shuttered bank is diagnosed

Report shows that Century Bank of Sarasota had lending, other issues.

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  • July 19, 2011
Tampa apartments sell for $4M

Louisiana investor pays $17,500 per unit for the foreclosed Puritan Place.

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  • July 19, 2011
Rib City's smokin' growth

The Fort Myers restaurant chain is one of the fastest growing in the country.

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  • July 19, 2011
Lehigh Acres: There's going to be a there, there

Lehigh Acres, like so many developments in the 1960s in Florida, was left with miles of cookie-cutter residential lots and little thought to future commercial development.

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  • July 18, 2011
Tampa REIT buys $28.9M center

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT purchased a Texas data center.

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  • July 18, 2011
Naples housing supply falls

The area's housing inventory has decreased by 18.5% in the past year.

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  • July 18, 2011
Octex plans job growth

The Sarasota-based plastic mold injection business to add 80 employees.

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  • July 18, 2011
When new hires make headlines

In the latest update, the Agency for Workforce Innovation said the state's construction industry shed 14,300 jobs over the year. So when a construction firm hires, it's news.

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  • July 16, 2011
Home price forecast: more stability

Orlando's metropolitan area ranks third out of five major housing markets forecast to see price gains for the July to December period.

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  • July 16, 2011
A bit of growth could go a long way

The euphoria over technology firm stocks and IPOs, which has the outsized appearance of what looks like a bubble-in-the making, dropped a few seedlings on the Gulf Coast.

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  • July 16, 2011
Paddling their way to boost the Tampa economy

Thousands of tourists will boost Tampa Bay's economy this summer, once the World Dragon Boat Racing Championship begins.

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  • July 15, 2011
Two Sarasota entrepreneurs buy Creekwood flex buildings

Sarasota businessmen Paul Marchese Jr. and James Abrams purchased two flex buildings in Creekwood East Corporate Park for $1.68 million.

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  • July 15, 2011
Lighting First takes over A PartyWorld building

Greg and Steven Adams purchased a 12,056-square-foot A PartyWorld store for $1.1 million.

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