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  • August 16, 2019
Law firm adds two attorneys and nine new employees

The lawyers have almost 80 years of combined experience.

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  • August 16, 2019
Locker room talk: Soccer club executives spill secrets of success

Tampa Bay Rowdies leaders gathered in the team's locker room on Aug. 7 in St. Petersburg, Florida, to host a Business of Soccer event where they discussed key changes that have propelled the United Soccer League club to big success in 2019.

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  • August 16, 2019
Let them eat cake: Grocer takes dessert offerings to new level with imports

Publix Super Markets Inc. has struck a deal that will see the Lakeland, Florida-based grocer import premium, handmade cakes from La Rocca, a Canadian cake maker.

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  • August 16, 2019
American Landmark CEO is a one-trick magician

American Landmark Apartments, of Tampa, and and its CEO, Joe Lubeck, have settled on a formula to buy, upgrade and sell apartment projects in Sunbelt states that have made fans out of both investors and tenants alike.

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  • August 16, 2019
Sarasota's L3 site to become distribution center under buyer's plan

Developer planning up to 800,000 square feet of industrial space

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  • August 16, 2019
Optimal Outcomes buys Fort Myers site for possible medical office

Optimal Outcomes of St. Petersburg has acquired a 5.1-acre tract in Fort Myers for a likely medical office building. The company has done extensive work in the area for Florida Cancer Specialists.

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  • August 16, 2019
Casto Southeast, Anderson to oversee Midtown Tampa retail

Midtown Tamps master developer Bromley Cos. has tapped Casto Southeast Realty Services and Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate of Ohio to oversee leasing of the $500 million Midtown Tampa's planned 220,000 square feet of retail space.

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  • August 16, 2019
Culinary firm scores big win with rowing tournament

'It was a lot more than we thought it would be,' one executive says.

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  • August 16, 2019
College's ‘donor-centric’ advancement team receives award

Ringling College of Art and Design was honored with a fundraising award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

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  • August 16, 2019
Fifth on first

Fifth Avenue South has seen a surge in new tenants.

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  • August 16, 2019
Aileron Capital completing Grand Central apartments

Aileron Capital Management is completing the Grand Central apartments in Fort Myers, the centerpiece of an 18-acre project. The Tampa company also plans to sell its other two Southwest. Florida holdings, Midtown apartments and the Uptown at Liberty Health

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  • August 15, 2019
New York-based company acquires area manufacturer

Hydrogel Vision products are sold in 25 countries under the Extreme H2O brand or under a private label arrangement.

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  • August 15, 2019
Solar-powered town ranked a top master-planned community

The Babcock Ranch chief operations officer says the community has seen more than $140 million in home contracts.

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  • August 15, 2019
With acquisitions, property investment firm’s portfolio grows to $900 million

Stoneweg US, a St. Petersburg, Florida, real estate investment firm specializing in multifamily acquisitions and developments, has acquired Memphis-based Lynnfield Place Apartments and Kansas City-based Maple Hills Apartments.

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  • August 14, 2019
Veteran bankruptcy litigator joins area law firm

New Orleans-based law firm Adams and Reese has welcomed Edmund Whitson III to its commercial restructuring and bankruptcy practice and named him a partner at its Tampa, Florida, office.

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