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News

    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • July 7, 2024
Top 10 Business Observer stories of the first half of 2024

While some news is of closings and layoffs, people and companies in the region are also busy buying land, expanding and taking risks.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 6, 2024
84-unit affordable housing community to open in Sarasota

Cypress Square opens at a time when finding affordable or attainable housing is getting more difficult and bridges “the affordable housing supply-demand gap.”

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 6, 2024
2 dog bars in region on USA Today’s 10 best list for 2024

St. Petersburg and Sarasota are home to two of the best dog bars in the country, according to USA Today.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • July 5, 2024
South Carolina hospitality group brings pair of restaurants to Tampa

Two new restaurants are slated to begin serving in 2024 and 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • July 4, 2024
Clearwater construction firm expands its services to plumbing

Home Love Construction, a Clearwater-based firm founded in 2017, is expanding another arm of its business to an adjacent field in the home services industry.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 3, 2024
Food service vendor loses contract at SRQ airport, cuts nearly 100 jobs

New concessions and shops, with several local brands among them, are coming soon to the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 3, 2024
Manatee pet waste removal company scoops up competitor

Parrish-based poop-scooping business DoodyCalls on the Suncoast has acquired Clearwater-based ByByPoo.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 2, 2024
Investor gets $40M loan to buy Fort Myers apartments

Berkadia arranged the five-year loan for the Boca Raton firm that bought the Brantley Pines apartments off of Cleveland Avenue.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • July 2, 2024
Aeromexico celebrates new flight service at TPA

Aeromexico is the first airline to offer service to Mexico City from TPA in three decades.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
Waterfront Naples condo sells for $6M, beats building record by $1M

A condominium on “Millionaire’s Row” in Naples sold for almost $1 million more than what the buyer paid for it in 2022.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 1, 2024
National fraud allegations include Tampa nurse for siphoning fentanyl

Four people in the region were charged in a variety of cases.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
$15M freestanding emergency room opens in north Manatee

HCA Florida Palmetto Emergency is affiliated with HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton and is expected to have 26 full-time employees.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • July 1, 2024
Longtime popular family-owned deli sold in Tampa

Wright's Gourmet House is officially property of Caspers Co., a Tampa-based hospitality business that was previously a large McDonald's franchisee.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 1, 2024
Naples firm buys Michigan ferry company, increasing fleet to 46 ships

The family-owned conglomerate’s Michigan holdings now include more than 100 properties as well as docks, ships and newspapers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
Sarasota biotech firm develops new prototype for treating concussions

Oragenics aims to help the millions of people who suffer concussions and lose consciousness.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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