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  • Jean Gruss
  • February 25, 2010
Management Stars

Property management companies are lining up to help banks and other lenders manage distressed commercial real estate. It's one of the few bright spots in an industry decimated by the recession.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 24, 2010
Bank raises profile with new hire

The Sarasota-Manatee unit of Whitney National Bank has hired Chris Pennewill, Jr., a well-known local executive, to run its commercial banking division.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
McNichols took on 'way different job'

Even in today's hyper online social networking, it pays to attend business lunches.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Groups use litigation, again

Environmental groups continue to be aggressive pursuing litigation when not prevailing with government bureaucracy or legislatures.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
November Consumer Durables

Naples was the last area of the Gulf Coast region to feel the effects of the economic downturn and that's reflected in the steepest year-over-year decline in consumer durable taxable sales in November.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Agencies hit the phones

Cold calls and cold weather could prove to be a winning formula for adding new businesses to Sarasota.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Gates: Collier is anti-business

Collier County is chasing prospective business away with its high taxes and lengthy permitting process, according to a well-known businessman.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Company tries to stay in the lines

A startup franchise company with ambitious growth goals — and a catchy tag line — has targeted the Gulf Coast for its nationwide debut.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Heads roll in Palmetto's $6 million grant mistake

The city of Palmetto is typically eligible to receive up to $1.5 million a year in federal community development block grant funds. But bad advice resulted in those funds not being applied for from 2006-2009, costing the city up to $6 million.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Big permit news in Collier - not

Collier County, which has elevated glacially slow construction permitting to a fine art, recently announced major news about obtaining a building permit.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Colony resort owner seeks more investors

A high-stakes plan worth at least $20 million is in the works to save the hotel connected to the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, a landmark tourist destination on Longboat Key.

  • News
    By
  • Alex Walsh
  • February 19, 2010
Level playing field

Level 3 Communications is preparing to take market share from their competitors in Tampa Bay.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Attorney opens travel healthcare

It was a hole in the market that led Sarasota attorney P. Christopher Jaensch to open a Passport Health franchise — a real estate hole.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Goodwill Industries buys Arborgate

Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida Inc. purchased the 30,875-square-foot Arborgate Shopping Center at the corner of Colonial Boulevard and Treeline Avenue, plus eight acres of undeveloped land, for $3.36 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Skatepark owner buys Ybor building

Ybor City Properties LLC, led by Brian Schaefer, owner of the Skatepark of Tampa, purchased an 11,360-square-foot two-story historic building at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and 14th Street in Ybor City for $825,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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