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  • Anastasia Dawson
  • August 5, 2025
Tampa Museum of Art expansion begins with new dog park downtown

A new dog park coming to downtown Tampa will herald the first visible steps in the Tampa Museum of Art’s highly anticipated expansion.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • August 5, 2025
Pasco college names new leader, its third in seven years

St. Leo University's new president will be Jim Burkee, a first-generation college student with more than 25 years in higher education leadership.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 5, 2025
First Watch reaches 600-restaurant milestone

The daytime dining company is opening on average more than one new restaurant a week.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Anastasia Dawson
  • August 5, 2025
St. Pete's Nueva Cantina coming to Brandon this fall

Just months after opening a sister restaurant in Downtown Tampa, St. Petersburg’s Nueva Cantina has announced plans to bring its genuine Mexican street food to the Brandon area this fall.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 5, 2025
Kentucky Ford dealer buys Lee waterfront lot for $6.1M

The nearly 1-acre parcel is on the east side of Captiva.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 5, 2025
Helios to sell subsidiary for $54 million

The technology company is planning to divest from Custom Fluidpower, based in Australia.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Fort Myers medical group picks global real estate firm to oversee portfolio

Avison Young will manage 130 locations for the Millennium Physician Group.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 4, 2025
Manatee mobility manufacturer partners with Fort Myers company

Hoveround Mobility Solutions entered into what it calls a “strategic partnership” with Merits Health Products.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa hospital revamps menu with celebrity chef, debuts room service

Tampa General Hospital has partnered with Geoffrey Zakarian to redefine hospital food.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 4, 2025
$15.95 million waterfront estate listed on Siesta Key

The property comes with a guest house and deepwater dock.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa REIT buys Texas medical centers for $16M

Sila Realty Trust bought the two-facility portfolio in Southlake, just outside of Dallas-Fort Worth.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa retail center near Raymond James Stadium sells for $5 million

The plaza on MacDill Avenue was bought by a local commercial real estate company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 3, 2025
Prominent Sarasota corporate HQ up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Naples high-end shopping center gets an upgrade, a Tampa condo complex to be "repositioned" as rental apartments, and Manatee buys a historic farm.

  • Florida
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 2, 2025
Sarasota chamber leader wins global recognition

Heather Kasten, president and CEO of Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, has earned the highest certification of the chamber profession.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 2, 2025
Fractured condo sale near the University of South Florida

An investment firm has bought up 248 of the 260 units at a 51-year-old condominium community in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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