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Mainsail Development Group buys lodge

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Mainsail Development Group buys lodge

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Gurley Leep buys, renames Gateway Honda

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TIB Bank takes back three properties

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Gurley Leep buys, renames Gateway Honda

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TIB Bank takes back three properties

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Aquarium director dies of heart attack

Jeff Swanagan, 52, the man who helped start the financial turnaround at the Florida Aquarium in downtown Tampa as its former director, has died in Columbus, Ohio of an apparent heart attack.

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Abel Band law firm folds into Shumaker

One of Sarasota's most high-profile law firms, practicing everything from trademark secret cases to condo law disputes, is being blended in to a larger Ohio-based firm.

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  • July 7, 2009
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U.S. Juice Holdings LLCbuys East Pointe Park center

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Entrepreneur: 'It's time to buy land'

Prominent Lakewood Ranch-based homebuilder Pat Neal knows the real estate market is strewn with the remains of investors that were positive the residential market had hit bottom. Even so, he is willing to bet it's fallen far enough.

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  • July 3, 2009
Feds temporarily shelve panther protection request

The federal government has shelved a petition by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida to designate panther habitat in a large swath of Collier, Lee and Hendry counties, handing landowners there a reprieve for now.

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  • July 2, 2009
New technology for Lee County tourism

The travel industry was one of the first to be rocked by the recession. So companies that specialize in lowering the cost of vacation packages have grown in demand.

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  • July 1, 2009
FDIC approves Naples bank merger

In the midst of the credit collapse and tightening federal standards, opening a bank on the Gulf Coast has been all but impossible.

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  • June 30, 2009
Healthcare group reports fast growth

Outsourcing continues to drive up the balance sheet for one Lehigh Acre company.

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  • June 29, 2009
Environmental Biotech sees change

Perhaps Manatee County truly is in the process of changing its reputation toward business, even if it is only the chamber.

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