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  • April 10, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Transactions Sarasota-Manatee

Wisconsin entrepreneur buys Helping Hands

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  • April 10, 2009
Naimoli puts home on market

Vince Naimoli, founder and former principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team and former chief executive of Anchor Glass Container Corp. in Tampa, has put his home in North Tampa's wealthy Avila community up for sale.

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  • April 10, 2009
Blue Head Tequila posts profit

Blue Head Tequila, a Tampa-based Tequila company, has reached a turning point, or maybe a celebration point.

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  • April 10, 2009
WCI bankruptcy moving slowly

It's been eight months since Bonita Springs-based homebuilder WCI Communities filed for bankruptcy reorganization and there's still no plan.

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  • April 10, 2009
Time writer didn't do his homework

For nearly 90 minutes, Harvard educated, liberal writer/author Michael Grunwald droned on to 50 or so growth policy groupies about Florida as the “unsustainable,” “sunset state,” mostly reading his speech — “Smart Growth/Dumb Growth: A Matter of Survival.”

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  • April 10, 2009
Lee banks avoid foreclosures

For the most part, community banks in Lee County have avoided the worst of the residential foreclosures, according to figures tallied by Jeff Tumbarello at the Southwest Florida Real Estate Investors Association.

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  • April 8, 2009
Former execs ready to let sparks fly

Mike Bennett and David Hicks are back in the electric contracting business. The two former Aladdin Ward Electric and Air executives plan to open and run the Sarasota office of Orlando-based electric contractor Bright Future Electric LLC.

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  • April 7, 2009
Slowdown impacts trendy club

The recession has hit the Sarasota University Club, one of downtown Sarasota's prime lunch spots of the boom times.

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  • April 6, 2009
Firm's study lifted by Hudson crash

Study focused on eliminating the use of ponds at airports to reduce the number of birds they attract.

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  • April 3, 2009
Get ready for surge in water costs

Efforts by water-management boards to mandate a 30% drop in water consumption will force utilities to raise rates on consumers and businesses by as much as 50%, a water expert warned recently.

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  • April 3, 2009
A Facebook to educate investors

Wesley Chapel entrepreneur Lane Mendelsohn created a Web site to educate investors in 2005. But it lacked the two-way communication of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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  • April 3, 2009
Bobby V hopes to grow his pizza tree

A family-style Tampa-based pizza joint is seeking to grow nationwide thorough franchises, with the hope that the recession will be an ally, not a hindrance.

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  • April 3, 2009
Revenues in bloom for edibles

The tough economy has touched all industries, but it can't seem to wilt Edible Arrangements, the service that makes floral arrangements out of fruit and gourmet dipping fudge.

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  • April 2, 2009
Homebuyers may get tax refund

A proposal by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist may have county tax collectors giving money to taxpayers instead of taking it, Lee County Property Appraiser Ken Wilkinson recently observed

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  • April 1, 2009
Local market sees signs of hope

Manufacturing in Manatee and Sarasota counties isn't dead just yet. While the recession has forced several companies — from boat builders to tool supply operations — to cut back on employees and production, there are some signs of hope in the local market.

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