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  • December 4, 2009
Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy season

A good indicator of the upcoming tourism season is airport traffic. Tourism officials in Fort Myers and Naples cheered in August and September when Southwest Florida International Airport reported more passengers than in the same months last year.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 4, 2009
SW Florida foreclosures continue to decline

The Cape Coral-Fort Myers area always garners headlines about being one of the worst places in the country for foreclosures.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 4, 2009
Largo publisher takes on the NBA

It's not every day Random House is forced to make such a late change to their publishing schedule. But when the book in question tells all about what could be the most damaging breach of officiating integrity in sports history, it can be one of those days.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 4, 2009
Construction firm faces more difficulty

The troubles at Kesselring Holding Corp., one of the only Sarasota-based publicly traded construction firms, roll on.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 4, 2009
More evidence banks not lending

With most banks scared to lend money as federal officials breath down their necks, what are business owners to do when their mortgages start to mature?

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 4, 2009
Technology group ushers in changes

A four-year-old support organization for technology executives and entrepreneurs in Sarasota and Bradenton is getting a new name and a new partner.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
City sells Ed Smith to county

The City of Sarasota has officially sold the 53-acre Ed Smith Stadium spring training facility at the southwest corner of 12th Street and Tuttle to Sarasota County for $1.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
Domino's owner buys Del Prado building

The owners of a four-store Domino's Pizza franchise in Lee County — Nancy Drury and Scott Dennis — traded buildings with Richard Manner of Cape Coral in a move to bring one of their pizza stores directly on to Del Prado Boulevard.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
Kadampa Meditation Center plans Buddhist temple

Kadampa Meditation Center New York purchased a 9,500-square-foot office building on the east side of U.S. 301 between 7th and 8th streets for $1.25 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
SantaFe Senior Living buys Bonita Springs land

Bonita Springs Retirement Village Inc., a limited liability company of SantaFe Senior Living, purchased 20 acres that includes Nicola's Liquors on Tamiami Trail near Highland Woods Golf and Country Club for $7 million.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
Hayes buys MLK building

Nashville-based Hayes Pipe Supply purchased three buildings, totaling 12,731 square feet, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Clewis Avenue for $1.21 million.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
Highwoods Properties buys Westshore offices

Raleigh, N.C.-based Highwoods Properties purchased a 219,815-square-foot, 10-story office building in Westshore for $22.25 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
Tampa General Hospital buys Kennedy building

Tampa General Hospital purchased the two-story former Bryn-Alan Photography building and several surrounding parcels on Kennedy Boulevard near Brevard Avenue for a total of $5.7 million.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 3, 2009
Hardin Construction buys Mathews Construction

Longtime Tampa-based contractor Mathews Construction is being absorbed by Atlanta-based Hardin Construction Co.

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  • December 3, 2009
Job market shows signs of stabilizing

A new hiring survey from a national accounting and financial services firm shows that sometimes little or no growth can be a good thing. That's the message from the Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index, which shows the employee markets stabilizing in the accounting and financial industries in the 2010 first quarter.

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