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  • January 3, 2020
Increasing demand leads to new center for Lakewood Ranch manufacturing firm

Sarasota-based Florikan E.S.A. recently opened a distribution center in Bowling Green.

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  • January 3, 2020
Royal ride: Authentic London taxi comes to Naples

A Naples resort is bringing a little bit of Britain to Southwest Florida.

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  • January 3, 2020
St. Pete development firm goes full force with B Corp movement

Socially responsible developer, a B Corp pioneer in Florida, breaks ground on another townhome project.

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  • January 2, 2020
Area opera names new executive director

Former Opera Naples Executive Director Timothy Todd Simmons has returned to his hometown.

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  • January 2, 2020
Developer begins sales of new luxury condo tower units

The Ronto Group, a Naples-based property developer, has opened a sales center on the site of its latest project: Altura Bayshore, a 22-story, 73-unit luxury condo tower that will overlook South Tampa's iconic Bayshore Boulevard.

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  • January 2, 2020
Top Deals 2019: Tampa Bay

Portfolio sales of the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay and an adjacent office building, downtown and Westshore offices and a pair of Brandon properties spur record transactional volume of nearly $837 million in 2019

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  • January 2, 2020
County awards multimillion-dollar roads project

Contract is for fast-growing Lehigh Acres.

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  • January 2, 2020
Brokerage, with 40 locations, appoints new CEO

Budge Huskey previously led the Coldwell Banker brand as president and CEO.

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  • January 2, 2020
Advertising firm goes wild with new contract

ZooTampa at Lowry Park has selected Paradise Advertising & Marketing Inc., based in St. Petersburg, Florida, as its agency of record.

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  • December 27, 2019
Juice machine: citrus company posts solid year

Fort Myers-based Alico is one of the largest citrus producers in the country.

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  • December 27, 2019
Apartment, office deals in near equilibrium

Overall sales volume decline in two Gulf Coast submarkets — Southwest Florida and Sarasota/Manatee counties — during 2019 was offset by strength in the Tampa Bay area.

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  • December 27, 2019
Top Deals 2019: Southwest Florida

Residential sales of apartments, a condominium tied to a resort and a mobile home and RV park dominated Southwest Florida's top commercial real estate sales in 2019.

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  • December 27, 2019
Top Deals: Sarasota/Manatee

Apartments edged other sectors in top transaction activity in Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2019 as investors clamored to lock in yields, even as overall dollar volume dropped from the year before in absence of a few high-profile deals such as the sale

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  • December 20, 2019
SPP shifts offices back to Sparkman Wharf

Strategic Property Partners, the developer behind the Water Street Tampa project downtown, has moved into Sparkman Wharf, a building within the $3 billion development.

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  • December 20, 2019
Flood of business: Insurer reaches $50M in premiums, sets sights on $100M

TypTap, a subsidiary of Tampa, Florida-based HCI Group (NYSE: HCI) that specializes in flood insurance, has achieved its goal of $50 million in premiums.

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