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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 27, 2019
Fewer flights, but more passengers using airport

Southwest Florida International Airport saw a nearly 2% percent increase of passengers in July.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 26, 2019
Nonprofit names new development director

Most recently, Sara Krusenstjerna was director of philanthropic planning for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 26, 2019
Area man, 84, faces prison in securities scheme

Larry Carr, a resident of Carrollwood, Florida, will serve four years in federal prison for selling more than $8 million in unregistered securities.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 26, 2019
Real estate report shows sales increase, price reductions

Fewer home sellers are entering the market, the monthly report revealed.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 26, 2019
q&a: Danny Rice

Colliers International Tampa Bay Managing Director Danny Rice talks about recruiting, technology and the next downturn

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2019
Multifamily developer completes new apartment complex in area

Multifamily housing developer The NRP Group has unveiled The Allure at Gateway, a 274-unit, market-rate apartment community in Pinellas Park, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2019
County commissioner appointed to transportation task force

The task force will discuss the Southwest-Central Connector highway which will extend from Collier to Polk County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2019
College moves forward on 74-acre campus

SCF will have a presence in the Parrish area by offering noncredit classes near the future campus site.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2019
The No. 1 state for retirees is a corny surprise

Florida earned the No. 5 spot on a Bankrate ranking of the best states in the U.S. to retire.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2019
Florida paces country in car rental taxes

Only nine states in the country charge lower rental car taxes than Florida.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2019
Master class: Museum wants to help leaders tackle big questions

On Sept. 28, the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, will host an innovation lab that serves as an introduction to creative thinking and how people’s different cognitive styles contribute to the creative problem-solving process.

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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 23, 2019
A Tale of a Smaller Elephant

Annual Market Trends presentation highlights a mostly steady real estate landscape in Southwest Florida

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 23, 2019
Phoenix firm buys Crosstown Center for $199 million

JDM Partners, a Phoenix-based firm, has acquired the two-building Crosstown Center office complex occupied by military financial services firm USAA for $199 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 23, 2019
When last we left our hero...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has tapped CRE Consultants' Managing Partner Ray Sandelli to fill a seat on the Lee County Commission vacated by the April death of former Commissioner Larry Kiker.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 23, 2019
Waltermire joins Colliers International's retail practice

Erica Waltermire, who has worked for the past decade at commercial real estate firm CBRE Inc., has joined rival Colliers International in Tampa.

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