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  • March 30, 2010
Study: Tampa cheap for biz

A study suggests Tampa is the cheapest place to do business among the nation's largest cities.

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  • March 30, 2010
Tampa home prices up

Tampa' S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index was up 0.3% in January, Bloomberg reports.

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  • March 29, 2010
Syniverse jumps on upgrade

Syniverse Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SVR) stock rose 5.68% Monday as a major investment company upgraded its rating from a hold to a buy.

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  • March 29, 2010
Death to Too Big to Fail

When Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to thousands of community bankers here last week, he received a standing “O” for his pounding of financial firms deemed “too big to fail.”

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  • March 26, 2010
BB&T takes to Tampa skyline

The Branch Banking & Trust Corporation is preparing to get its name out in Tampa in a rather big way next month.

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  • March 25, 2010
Gordon Food Services buys Center 41 strip

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based food distributor Gordon Food Service purchased the 26,380-square-foot 41 Center retail strip building on U.S. 41 and Orlando Avenue for $2.26 million.

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  • March 25, 2010
Inland American REIT buys Sarasota Pavilion

Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, the purchasing arm of Oak Brook, Ill.-based The Inland Real Estate Group of Cos. Inc., purchased the 324,985-square-foot Sarasota Pavilion retail center at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Stickney Point Road for $44.67 million.

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  • March 25, 2010
Foundation Realty Advisors buy, manage Hampton Oaks

A one-year-old real-estate investment firm, Foundation Realty Advisors, and an Alabama private investor purchased the six-building Hampton Oaks Business Park off U.S. 301 and north of Interstate 4 for $18.4 million.

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  • March 25, 2010
Developer buys land for Freedom Harbor

Freedom Harbor LLC, a partnership of Rich Mozdzer, Debbie Reynolds, Dr. Frank Sirchia, former Austrian Olympic Pair Skater Michael Nemec and Jakub Pilecky, purchased a 123-acre former borrow pit with a 70-acre Lake on Bullfrog Creek Road near Big Bend Road for $3.5 million.

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  • March 25, 2010
Myakka 110 LLC buys vacant land

Myakka 110 LLC purchased 110 acres of wilderness land at the southern end of Carlton Road near Murphy Road for $746,900.

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  • March 25, 2010
Port Dolphin Energy signs with Port

The Manatee County Port Authority has approved a long-term $30 million agreement with Port Dolphin Energy LLC for it to lease 35 acres at the port and additional property for its pipeline.

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  • March 25, 2010
Family partnership buys Regency Palms, Oasis

SME Apartments LLC and EM Apartments LLC, led by Tampa's Elvis Ramon, purchased the final judgments of foreclosure and have taken title to the Regency Palms Apartments and Oasis Apartments from Sovereign Bank.

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  • March 25, 2010
Morton Plant hospital develops new campus

Morton Plant North Bay Hospital has completed its new Starkey Medical Tower and its Medical Arts Building.

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  • March 25, 2010
Gloomy outlook for lawsuit abuse

The lawsuit climate for businesses in Florida is in the bottom fifth of the country, according to a new survey.

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  • March 25, 2010
Bank staging an encore in Florida

Contrary to recent news reports, Thomas Ray wants you and his sister to know he isn't leaving Florida.

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