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  • January 7, 2010
Hoffman Development selling new condos fast

The Review declared that WCI founder Al Hoffman Jr. was back in the real estate game in 2008. Since then, his new firm's results are harkening back to the good old days

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  • January 7, 2010
Homebuilder Neal bets on the ranch

Neal Communities purchased 63.8 acres in Lakewood Ranch's Country Club East from Schroeder-Manatee Ranch's subsidiary LWR Communities LLC for $4.81 million. The purchase price is $75,356 per acre.

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  • January 1, 2010
EXECUTIVE DECISION

Should companies be mandated to give employees sick days?

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  • December 31, 2009
Senior housing not immune to recession

Senior residential housing is feeling the pinch just like the rest of the housing market.

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  • December 31, 2009
Florist uses Facebook to find more fans

Art Conforti, a gregarious New York transplant who runs one of the Gulf Coast's most successful independent florists, has long said he cherishes the personal connections he makes with customers when selling flowers.

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  • December 31, 2009
Find the Bottom

With rental rates down and vacancies up, will 2010 drag commercial property owners further underwater or to some needed stability?

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  • December 31, 2009
COVER UPDATE: Quiet Consulting

The focus on big-headache public sector environmental work has helped Tampa Contracting Services stay successful. But going forward, Dan Harte will need to do more — and plans to do it quietly.

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  • December 31, 2009
Economic Snapshot: South Florida Inflation

Inflation remains tame in South Florida, led by declines in apparel and recreation. The only category that showed a meaningful year-over-year increase was “other goods and services,” which rose 8.6%.

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  • December 31, 2009
Entrepreneur aims at small businesses

Mike Sisti, founder of a Sarasota-based branding and marketing firm, plans to spend some of 2010 getting out a message of his own: Small businesses and entrepreneurs need to start banding together against government power grabs before it's too late.

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  • December 25, 2009
Economic Snapshot: Gulf Coast Employment

The Gulf Coast has lost nearly 91,000 jobs in the one-year period ending Nov. 30.

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  • December 24, 2009
Going to the back to make a comeback

Erik Vonk, a banking and staffing industry executive who has been credited with both saving and nearly wrecking the same Gulf Coast human resources firm, is back in the business.

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  • December 24, 2009
Gulf Coast bank stocks rally on news

The publicly traded stocks of two beleaguered Florida bank-holding companies in Naples, TIB Financial and Bank of Florida, surged earlier this week on news that former Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Hugh McColl is among a group of investors seeking to invest in Florida bank assets.

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  • December 24, 2009
Top consumer priority: Save more money in 2010

Sean Tennant works for Edward Jones as a financial advisor in St. Petersburg, and he's pleased with the results of his company's latest survey.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 24, 2009
Tell it to the judge: Earth Justice may have lied

When state agriculture and consumer services commissioner Charles Bronson appeared before a state Senate committee Dec. 9, he didn't mince words about a new federal standard.

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  • December 24, 2009
Small investment brings validation dividends

To Roger Branton, the recent $50,000 investment in his $16 million mobile phone technology company is worth infinitely more than the extra cash, at least in terms of what the company is really going after: Validation.

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