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  • March 7, 2011
Universal plans Sarasota hires

Universal North America, an insurance carrier, will add 70 jobs in two years.

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  • March 7, 2011
Jabil eliminates 90 jobs

Jabil Circuit cut back on employment at its factory in St. Petersburg.

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  • March 7, 2011
Jackson Lab still has many hurdles ahead

Jackson Lab may have selected Sarasota County for its 120,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, but that's just one of several steps to making it a reality.

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  • March 4, 2011
Bradenton Urgent Care buys Manatee Avenue office

Bradenton Urgent Care purchased its 4,000-square-foot building on Manatee Avenue for $700,000.

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  • March 4, 2011
Canadian developer buys dinner theatre

An affiliate of Mississauga, Ontario-based Centre City Capital Ltd. purchased the 12,708-square-foot Golden Apple Dinner Theatre building for $1.75 million.

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  • March 4, 2011
Accutek Packaging Equipment expands to Cape Coral

The Chocholek family purchased 12.03 acres with two large warehouse buildings in the East Cape Commerce Center for $1.61 million.

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  • March 4, 2011
Caspers executive buys Kennedy office buildings

Tampa businessman Blake Casper purchased two office buildings on Kennedy Boulevard for $1.15 million.

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  • March 4, 2011
Broadstone Net Lease buys Tower Radiology buildings

Broadstone Net Lease Inc. purchased four medical offices operated by Tower Radiology for $14.51 million.

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  • March 4, 2011
Blake Whitney Thompson buys Largo building

The Blake Whitney Thompson Co. LLC in St. Petersburg purchased the 192,099-square-foot former Special Data Processing building for $2.8 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • March 4, 2011
Sarasota County Commission issues traffic system contract

The Sarasota County Commission awarded a nearly $3.7-million construction contract to Highway Safety Devices Inc. of Tampa.

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  • March 4, 2011
Coldwell Banker Residential appoints two brokers

Pauline Bennett and Bob Huff joined Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate of Florida in Sarasota as managing brokers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • March 4, 2011
Red Sox begin construction

Developers broke ground on the new Lee County ballpark for the Boston Red Sox.

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  • March 4, 2011
IFC gaining momentum

Integrated Freight Corp.'s subsidiaries posted an operating profit to end 2010.

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  • March 4, 2011
Alico explores for commodity

Tests show land owned by the LaBelle firm could contain a valuable resource.

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  • March 4, 2011
Sarasota officials seek hotel proposals

The Sarasota City Commission approved an “invitation to negotiate” for developers who want to build a hotel on a vacant Palm Avenue parcel.

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