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  • December 7, 2019
Downtown restaurant to open second location

Selva Grill is known for dishes inspired by Peruvian cuisine.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 6, 2019
Tech company, with 135% sales growth, expands HQ

A-LIGN is also celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 6, 2019
Area gym creates app to train users in boxing

Billy Lyell, a boxer and owner of Sweet Science gym, and Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik, a former world champion boxer, co-founded and developed the app.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 6, 2019
Company recognized as Facebook Marketing Partner

Sarasota-based Dealers United is also a Facebook Marketplace Inventory Partner.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 6, 2019
Area biotech firm leaps to new creation: synthetic frogs

The SynDaver Synthetic Frog made its debut at J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey in November.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 6, 2019
Entrepreneur goes from debt to $37M business to now Hall of Fame

Kyle Taylor launched The Penny Hoarder in 2010.

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  • December 6, 2019
Florida manufacturers seek increased output — and clout

State officials turn to manufacturing for economic diversity.

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  • Jay Schlichter
  • December 6, 2019
Defined exit plan eases transition at $34 million business

Exiting a business after decades building it up requires lots of planning, an entrepreneur recently learned.

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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 6, 2019
Return to Seller

Parkway Property Investors has teamed with Swiss-based Partners Group to buy a collection of Westshore and downtown Tampa office buildings — some of which Parkway had owned previously.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 6, 2019
Palmer, Ralston named to national CCIM Institute's board

Adam Palmer of LasndQwest Commercial and Gary Ralston of SVN Saunders Ralston Dantzler Realty will serve on the board of the national CCIM Institute for 2020

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 6, 2019
Seeing Red

Red Rock Developments of South Carolina is bringing its experience developing industrial spec projects in Atlanta and elsewhere to the Interstate 4 corridor, with a project in Plant City.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 6, 2019
Midtown Tampa unveils loft office plan

Bromley Cos. has unveiled plans for a three-story, 70,000-square-foot loft-style office building, in addition to the three office towers totaling 750,000 square feet that partner Highwoods Properties is building in the 22-acre project.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 5, 2019
Homebuilder chooses new head of operations

Chris Batchelor is a state-certified general contractor in Florida and Tennessee.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 5, 2019
EDC president and CEO steps down

The board has identified a transition team to carry forward the EDC’s mission during the search process.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 4, 2019
Area baseball team changes name

New moniker was announced at an event at Hammond Stadium.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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