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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
West Manatee Fire buys medical building

The West Manatee Fire & Rescue District purchased the 12,026-square-foot former Manatee Obstetrics & Gynecology medical office building on 3rd Avenue north of State Road 64 for $1.1 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
SamWest buys 2,259 acres in Duette

James Grainger's SamWes purchased two parcels, totaling 2,259 acres of grazing land, in Duette near State Road 64 for $12.22 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Tampa investors buy Columbus Plaza

Tampa investors Sam and Laurice Hachem purchased the 119,502-square-foot Columbus Plaza shopping center for $2.8 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Bethlehem Baptist Church building for charter school

Faced with growing space needs, Bethlehem Baptist Church in Sarasota is looking to relocate its pre-school, but its ultimate development plans will also affect more school age kids.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Crosland, DDA awarded $2.6 million

Charlotte, N.C.-based Crosland LLC, in a partnership with DDA Development, has been awarded more than $2.6 million from the City of Tampa to acquire, rehabilitate and resell foreclosed homes in the Tampa area under HUD's Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Garrison Developer Group to develop Preserve at Alafia

Tampa-based Garrison Developer Group of Florida has closed on a $48-million loan to fund development of The Preserve at Alafia, 351-waterfront luxury apartment development near downtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Chamber chairman never gets his chair

The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce had barely elevated a Sarasota County employee to be its next chairman when word spread that a government worker would head the county's premier business group and the chamber backed down.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Lee County catches Collieritis

Collier County has a well-deserved reputation for its anti-business local government, but Lee County seems to be catching up with its neighbor to the south.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Fuel Prices Continue to Rise

The price of a gallon of regular gasoline has risen substantially over the past year as the economic recovery begins to take hold, but prices are still well below their highs in 2007.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Check unemployment

After last quarter's GDP results were released last week showing a 5.7% spike for the fourth quarter, Coffee Talk spoke with one banker who does not follow that number.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Budget politics in bloom

A proposed drop in the state corporate income tax from 5.5% to 4.5% is a bit mind boggling for Senate Democratic Leader, Sen. Al Lawson, D-Tallahassee.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Economy drowns online pool guy

Chris Smith, founder of a once high-flying, Internet-based Gulf Coast pool supply business, is drowning in debt caused by an admitted massive miscalculation in the economy.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
Real estate will lead us out

With all the talk about economic diversification, it's not politically correct to suggest that real estate will be the leading economic driver when the recovery takes hold on the Gulf Coast.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
'Generatives' help determine value

Can businesses learn from the Internet start-up culture? When it comes to creating a product with value, Kevin Hale thinks so.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2010
What took regulators so long? Immokalee?

We'll never know why it took so long for regulators to shut down long-suffering Florida Community Bank, but speculation among bankers was its unique headquarters location: Immokalee.

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