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  • February 19, 2010
Level playing field

Level 3 Communications is preparing to take market share from their competitors in Tampa Bay.

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  • February 19, 2010
Attorney opens travel healthcare

It was a hole in the market that led Sarasota attorney P. Christopher Jaensch to open a Passport Health franchise — a real estate hole.

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  • February 18, 2010
Goodwill Industries buys Arborgate

Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida Inc. purchased the 30,875-square-foot Arborgate Shopping Center at the corner of Colonial Boulevard and Treeline Avenue, plus eight acres of undeveloped land, for $3.36 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Skatepark owner buys Ybor building

Ybor City Properties LLC, led by Brian Schaefer, owner of the Skatepark of Tampa, purchased an 11,360-square-foot two-story historic building at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and 14th Street in Ybor City for $825,000.

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  • February 18, 2010
OMG Realty buys Wachovia branch

OMG Realty LLC, an entity managed by Fort Myers plastic surgeon Ralph Garramone, purchased a former 10,020-square-foot Wachovia bank branch at the northwest corner of Cleveland Avenue and Big Pine Way for $1.3 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Platinum Equity wins Wellcraft buildings

Platinum Equity LLC acquired Wellcraft's closed main manufacturing facilities at 15th Street and Whitfield Avenue in Sarasota, an auxiliary plant and a vacant piece of land for $6.5 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Aldi buys Lone Star for Bradenton store

Batavia, Ill.-based discount grocer Aldi USA purchased a 10,076-square-foot former Lone Star Steakhouse restaurant building southwest of Cortez Road and 47th Street for $1.88 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
National Home Communities buys Club Wildwood

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based National Home Communities LLC/National RV Communities LLC, purchased the Club Wildwood Mobile Home Park, a 478-space senior manufactured-home community in Hudson for $20.2 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Microlumen buys land in Oldsmar

Microlumen Enterprises LLC, a Tampa-based manufacturer of high-performance medical tubing, purchased 6.5 acres on Forrest Lakes Boulevard, north of Tampa Road, for $1.5 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Maryland doctor develops Sanibel complex

Maryland gastroenterologist James Frizzell purchased 2.23 acres on Tarpon Bay Road near Periwinkle Way for $1.5 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Cambridge affiliate buys 18 residential units

Del Ray Condominium Properties LLC, a company affiliated with Naples property management company Cambridge Management of Southwest Florida, purchased 18 units in six condominium developments in Lee and Collier counties for $1.2 million.

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  • February 18, 2010
Venice Christian Schoo plans three-phase expansion

Venice Christian School has filed a site plan for the first of a three-phase expansion project.

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  • February 17, 2010
Firm shifts strategy, changes name

Fawley Bryant Architects, one of the leading architecture firms in the Sarasota-Bradenton region, has dropped the word architecture from its name.

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  • February 12, 2010
Three easy steps ... to pay taxes

If you follow the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce on Twitter, you may have noticed the tweet posted by the organization last week: How to start a small business in #Tampa. And then a link to a page on the City of Tampa's website, claiming that, “starting a small business in Tampa is as easy as 1-2-3.”

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  • February 12, 2010
Meaning of being a local contractor

The cheerleading brigade was in full-force at the inaugural lunch meeting of the Manatee Tiger Bay Club, where a four-man panel debated this question: Does Manatee County Mean Business?

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