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  • July 13, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Tampa Bay

Gurley Leep buys, renames Gateway Honda

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  • July 13, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Lee-Collier

TIB Bank takes back three properties

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  • July 13, 2009
Aquarium director dies of heart attack

Jeff Swanagan, 52, the man who helped start the financial turnaround at the Florida Aquarium in downtown Tampa as its former director, has died in Columbus, Ohio of an apparent heart attack.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 9, 2009
Abel Band law firm folds into Shumaker

One of Sarasota's most high-profile law firms, practicing everything from trademark secret cases to condo law disputes, is being blended in to a larger Ohio-based firm.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 7, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Tampa Bay

U.S. Juice Holdings LLCbuys East Pointe Park center

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  • July 7, 2009
Entrepreneur: 'It's time to buy land'

Prominent Lakewood Ranch-based homebuilder Pat Neal knows the real estate market is strewn with the remains of investors that were positive the residential market had hit bottom. Even so, he is willing to bet it's fallen far enough.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 3, 2009
Feds temporarily shelve panther protection request

The federal government has shelved a petition by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida to designate panther habitat in a large swath of Collier, Lee and Hendry counties, handing landowners there a reprieve for now.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 2, 2009
New technology for Lee County tourism

The travel industry was one of the first to be rocked by the recession. So companies that specialize in lowering the cost of vacation packages have grown in demand.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 1, 2009
FDIC approves Naples bank merger

In the midst of the credit collapse and tightening federal standards, opening a bank on the Gulf Coast has been all but impossible.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 30, 2009
Healthcare group reports fast growth

Outsourcing continues to drive up the balance sheet for one Lehigh Acre company.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 29, 2009
Environmental Biotech sees change

Perhaps Manatee County truly is in the process of changing its reputation toward business, even if it is only the chamber.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 26, 2009
Tax break for a Lee County business

In a move to spark fiscal growth, the Lee County Office of Economic Development has been approved to provide tax incentives to area businesses.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 25, 2009
Cigar company expands market

The tax-induced consolidation of the global cigar industry has found a participant in Cusano Cigars of Bradenton.

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  • June 25, 2009
atLarge, Inc. wins Stevie Award

Sarasota-based atLarge, Inc. recently become the first local business in the region to win an American Business Award, also known as a Stevie Award.

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  • June 23, 2009
Alzheimer's research bright

The Roskamp Institute, the nationally known-Alzheimer's disease research facility, has announced the enrollment of three students in its long-awaited new Ph. D. program in neuroscience.

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