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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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  • March 31, 2009
Investors put big buying on hold

While short sale smaller residential have been gaining steadily, larger, big-ticket land sales have virtually dried up in Southwest Florida.

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  • March 30, 2009
Planning for growth is growth itself

If you're wondering if events planning is a growing business, ask Tampa's Lisa Pagano.

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  • March 27, 2009
Just say no to TARP bailout funds

Would you want Barney Frank or Nancy Pelosi telling you how to run your bank?

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  • March 26, 2009
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  • March 26, 2009
Proscenium land closing elusive

The land deal for the Proscenium project, a proposed $800 million redevelopment of six acres just north of downtown Sarasota, could be on life support.

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  • March 26, 2009
The U.S. economy: 'Rescued to death'

Donald Luskin is not a Pollyanna by nature, and he is staying true to that when looking at our economic future.

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  • March 26, 2009
Ginn land auction sets a Naples floor

Fort Myers commercial developer and luxury homebuilder John McGarvey and two partners, Dan Gerner and Alan Freeman, bought 262 home lots and a clubhouse in North Naples called Quail West from Orlando developer Ginn Resorts for $13.5 million. Spread over the lots alone, that's $51,527 per lot.

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  • March 26, 2009
Snowbirds still come for sunshine

The line that 1,000 people move to Florida daily has been rendered obsolete in this sour economy. But frigid northern winters are still on our side.

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  • March 25, 2009
Gulf travel agency expands its menu

Admiral Travel Gallery, the Sarasota-based travel agency known for putting together star-studded cruises and safaris, has added another exclusive trip to its repertoire: A culinary journey with Bon Appetit magazine, the esteemed epicurean periodical.

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  • March 24, 2009
Condo-tel rooms for convention center?

For more than two decades, officials with the Manatee Convention Center have been trying to find a developer to build a hotel nearby. Now with the real estate market downturn maybe those vacant luxury condominiums next door in Riviera Dunes could be the answer to that need.

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