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  • Elizabeth King
  • April 30, 2024
Report: Build-to-rent boom targets Tampa, Sarasota-Bradenton and Lakeland

Construction is soaring in the Sunshine State, where four metros landed among the top 20 for single-family home projects being built for rental properties.

  • Florida
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  • Louis Llovio
  • April 30, 2024
Walmart closing all 23 Florida health centers, including 9 in Tampa Bay

The retail giant joins Walgreens in closing medical offices in the state and nationwide.

  • Florida
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  • Andrew Warfield
  • April 30, 2024
Sarasota architecture firm chosen as partner in performing arts center project

Italy-based Renzo Piano Building Workshop has named Sweet Sparkman as architect of record on the new Sarasota Performing Arts Center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • April 30, 2024
8 Florida teams, with Yankees on top, surpass 100K in spring training attendance

The Tampa Bay Rays reached about 4,000 fans per game in Charlotte County.

  • Florida
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  • Jim DeLa
  • April 29, 2024
Sarasota real estate broker pleads guilty to disability benefits fraud

Prosecutors say he collected nearly $300,000 in disability payments while continuing to work.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • April 29, 2024
Home sales report: Sarasota-Bradenton leads nation in slashing prices

"Sarasota, in particular, has been overvalued for decades, and the chickens have finally come to roost," says an area Redfin sales manager.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • April 29, 2024
Entertainment venue and new towers coming to Water Street Tampa

The 56-acre — and growing — mixed-used development just outside downtown Tampa is expanding as the developer looks to lure expanding companies.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Louis Llovio
  • April 29, 2024
Hertz to sell of 10,000 more EVs than originally planned

The Estero-based company says it will get rid of 30,000 electric vehicles this year due to lack of demand and high expenses.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • April 28, 2024
Fort Myers school spends $29 million on office buildings

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a major hotel project is OK’d in St. Pete Beach, more land is conserved in Sarasota, and Margaritaville comes to Naples.

  • Florida
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 28, 2024
Sarasota EDC to mark 20-year anniversary at annual breakfast event

The Economic Development Corp. of Sarasota County is celebrating its 20th anniversary during its annual Economic Outlook breakfast event on Thursday, May 16.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • April 27, 2024
Holmes Beach businesses in recovery after car crashes

The storefronts are boarded up across the street from one another along a busy stretch of Marina Drive.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • April 26, 2024
St. Petersburg lawyer warns of title fraudsters stealing properties

Larry Silvestri urges property owners — commercial and residential — to set up alerts to warn them when scammers have swopped in.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Mark Gordon
  • April 26, 2024
Tampa Bay CPA firm rebrands to reflect more services

Company stems from a 2016 merger.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Elizabeth King
  • April 26, 2024
Florida truck driver training company plans expansion into Texas

FleetForce Trucking is one of several companies in Sarasota County that is in growth mode.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • April 25, 2024
Scottish tech firm opening US headquarters in Tampa, hiring 100

Systal Technology Solutions will operate a network operations center in space near airport, stadium and premier mall.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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