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  • April 9, 2010
Top Florida contractors in '09

Skanska, Balfour Beatty top ranking of national firms based on Florida revenues.

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  • April 9, 2010
Unusual appearance yields contention

Recent comments from Boar's Head chief financial officer Steve Kourelakos featured a refrain common among Gulf Coast leaders.

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  • April 8, 2010
First Banks now under the gun

An agreement between the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and a Missouri-based bank with Gulf Coast ties shows how the wheel can turn in just a few years.

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  • April 8, 2010
Elite Heating & Air buys Ambient Air building

Elite Holdings of Manatee LLC purchased the 7,000-square-foot former Ambient Air flex building for $340,000.

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  • April 8, 2010
Lee's Conservation 20/20 buys land from Waterman

Lee County purchased 136 acres east of Interstate 75 near Wellfield Road.

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  • April 8, 2010
Dessberg pursuing approvals for Stickney Point Plaza

Sarasota developer Rodney Dessberg is moving forward with plans to build Stickney Point Plaza, a strip mall planned for an area just north of Stickney Point Road.

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  • April 8, 2010
Tampa firm buys most of Legacy at Tampa

CCP Legacy LLC purchased 121 units in the 168-unit Legacy at Tampa condo complex for $2.1 million.

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  • April 8, 2010
Profitable bank's stock now for sale

Profits and banking aren't synonymous on the Gulf Coast. Only 12 of the 69 banks headquartered in the region from Tampa to Naples made money in the last year.

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  • April 8, 2010
Lawyers getting a reset with new office

After 27 years with the same law firm, it can be time to reset one's career. And that's precisely what William Hamilton is doing.

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  • April 8, 2010
A scent of optimism is entering the air

A small yet discernible scent of optimism filled the room at a recent networking event on the state of Sarasota-Bradenton's current real estate market.

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  • April 8, 2010
Cheap retirees lead housing recovery

As you waive goodbye to your snowbird friends, hope and pray that more of them will come next year — even if they don't plan to spend that much.

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  • April 8, 2010
Office prospects look more seriously for space

While it's no longer a shocker that office vacancy in the Tampa Bay market has hit the 20% mark, what might be surprising is that prospective tenants are even looking more seriously for space now.

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  • April 8, 2010
Med-tech exec arranges homecoming with new HQ

The chief executive officer of Pico-Tesla Magnetic Therapies LLC, a Colorado-based emerging medical technology company, is returning to the Gulf Coast and bringing part of his company with him.

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  • April 8, 2010
Changes coming to Colonial Bank signs

Branch Banking & Trust Corp. will begin changing the signs at former Colonial Bank offices throughout the Gulf Coast region this weekend, leading up to what will likely be its biggest, if not highest, installation — the lettering atop Tampa's 36-story Park Tower.

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  • April 7, 2010
Bay area gets $17M for health IT

The sum is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' $267 million nationwide investment.

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