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News

    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • June 3, 2024
Prominent Fort Myers children and family nonprofit names new CEO

Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwest Florida is making a leadership change that will take effect this summer.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 3, 2024
Publix rolls out line of summer products

The grocer, which is opening a store in Apollo Beach this month, is offering the nearly dozens items at it stores during the summer season.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • June 3, 2024
Bealls names new member of leadership team

Leana Less is the new senior vice president of marketing for Bradenton-based Bealls Inc.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 2, 2024
AeroVanti founder's lawyer walks away from $30M contempt case

A federal judge has granted permission for Patrick Britton-Harr's attorney to withdraw from the case.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 2, 2024
Collier County pays $20.77 million for 2,500 acres near Immokalee

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an engineering firm leases more space in Tampa, lots are ready for multifamily development for sale in Sarasota, and Babcock Ranch reaches a milestone.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 1, 2024
Hoffmann's Midwest buying spree continues with cruise company purchase

The Naples business conglomerate has bought a Michigan cruise business with two ships.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • June 1, 2024
Sarasota County maintains AA+ bond ratings

Fitch and Standard & Poor's ratings apply to capital improvement revenue bonds.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 31, 2024
Tampa credit union adds commercial services

Suncoast Credit Union says the newly instituted financial tools will help clients better manage transactions.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • May 31, 2024
400 jobs available at Longboat Key resort before opening

The St. Regis Longboat Key will hold a job fair in June at the Van Wezel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Andrew Warfield
  • May 31, 2024
Sarasota inks arts center design pact with architect Renzo Piano

After some discord between government funding entities, the vision for Sarasota's new performing arts center on the bayfront moves into its next phase: design.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 30, 2024
Palmetto apartment project gets $97 million construction loan

The St. Petersburg developer building a new community in Palmetto secured the financing for the project through Goldman Sachs.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • May 30, 2024
Sarasota chamber up for national Chamber of the Year title

The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and other finalists were recognized for driving growth and regional prosperity, according to the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 30, 2024
Developers behind Fort Myers riverfront project want more time, density

New Jersey-based AIRN Management have asked the city for an extension and to make what it calls “minor revisions” to the original plan.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • May 30, 2024
Palmetto Marriott Resort & Spa readies for June opening

A ribbon-cutting precedes the grand opening for the Palmetto Marriott Resort & Spa, a first-of-its-kind hotel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 30, 2024
Apollo Beach retail center sells as smokestacks come down

The shopping center on U.S. Highway 41 sold for $5.04 million to a South Florida investor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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