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  • March 4, 2020
Health plan company aims to fill 200 jobs in area

Health plan provider Humana Inc. plans to hire up to 200 additional inside sales agents at its Tampa, Florida, office.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 3, 2020
Community posts 30% gain in annual homes sales

Naples Reserve has logged 659 home sales since its 2015 opening.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 3, 2020
Architecture firm adds six members to staff

Arturo Lopez, Elizabeth Lee, Chloe Naese, William Blair, Sean Michael Lawler and Amanda Reyes-Martin joined Sweet Sparkman.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 3, 2020
Investment, banking veteran lands senior vice president role

Valley Bank has named Jeff Armstrong senior vice president of its Pinellas County commercial banking team.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 3, 2020
Trunk show brings products, entrepreneurs to area from around the world

The Souk was founded by Liz Gilbert.

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  • March 2, 2020
National home services firm buys area AC company

The Wrench Group bought another area business, CoolToday, in April 2019.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 2, 2020
Bank appoints pair of new regional leaders

Earnest Wilks has been with Regions Bank for 17 years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 2, 2020
City renames street to honor entrepreneur

Hillsborough county officials have approved the renaming of a portion of West Comanche Avenue as "Tony Alessi Sr. Avenue," to honor the late Tampa entrepreneur and the company he created.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 28, 2020
Online marketing firm unveils rebrand

Perform[cb] has over 135 employees around the world.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 28, 2020
Prominent architecture firm expands footprint in region

Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood, a privately held, Montgomery, Ala.-based architecture firm with offices throughout the Southeast, has expanded to Tampa, Florida.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 28, 2020
Real estate firm aims to bring in more agents through million-dollar plan

Mark Coppens runs downtown Sarasota-based Living Vogue Real Estate with his wife, Jamie Coppens.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 28, 2020
Report: 13% of out-of-state moves are relocations to Florida, Sarasota is a top destination

HireAHelper’s 2020 Migration Report reveals just how popular Florida is.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 28, 2020
For explosively growing tech firm, every month is 'best month ever'

InSync Healthcare Solutions, a Tampa, Florida, company that specializes in software for managing medical records, says 2019 was a record year.

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  • Brian Hartz
  • February 28, 2020
Sight lines: Nimble developer makes savvy shifts with an eye toward portfolio balance

Tampa-based Sight Real Estate has shifted its business model to chase larger projects backed by institutional investors, while keeping an eye out for splashy passion projects.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 28, 2020
American Landmark going on buying spree

Tampa-based apartment owner bought $1.7 billion worth of multifamily rental projects in 2019. The company says it will likely exceed that figure this year.

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