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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2019
Development firms partner on luxury apartment community

CC Residential, Barron Collier Companies open first buildings of Addison Place in North Naples.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2019
Law firm hires top-level fiduciary services executives

Williams Parker filling what it has seen as a gap in the marketplace. That includes working with clients serving as a fiduciary who may need assistance. It also includes the firm’s partners who have been asked to serve as fiduciary on behalf of clients wh

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2019
Web-based business provide Florida a big boost

Buying and selling stuff and services over the internet is obviously a behemoth industry — but just how big is it in Florida? Pretty big.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2019
Fully invested: Middle-market asset managers are bullish on Tampa Bay

Private equity funds that specialize in middle-market companies likewise couldn’t be more bullish about the Tampa Bay, Florida, region, according to a recent presentation at a meeting of the Tampa chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2019
City certified as a top launchpad for business

Aided by Startup Genome, a consulting firm that studies entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, Inc. magazine has published its list of “Surge Cities” — the top 50 U.S. metro areas for starting a business, and the list includes Tampa, Florida.

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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 1, 2019
NetPark Tampa Bay was a creative conversion

NetPark@ Tampa Bay in Tampa represents the only retail mall in the U.S. to be successfully converted to pure office space, the result of an investment and commitment by insurer John Hancock Corp.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 1, 2019
Sarasota Memorial's downtown office purchase will generate greater efficiency for the hospital

Sarasota Memorial Hospital's purchase of the vacant 1741 Main St. office building in Sarasota will generate greater efficiency and collaboration for the heathcare provider and bring 300 new jobs to downtown.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 1, 2019
Fawcett Memorial buys land for Estero hospital

Fawcett Memorial Hospital has purchased nearly 100 acres in Estero for $52.5 million for a new hospital in Lee County, after the state granted parent company HCA Healthcare permission to build one last year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 1, 2019
New York firm buys Highwoods Preserve building in Tampa

Strategic Office Partners' purchase of the Highwoods Preserve I building in Tampa from Highwoods Realty is anchored by Syniverse Technologies.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 1, 2019
Knott Realty Group to kick off Decorum apartments leasing in April

Knott Realty Group, in advance of an anticipated August delivery, intends to begin pre-leasing of its new Decorum Luxury Apartments in Fort Myers in April

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • February 1, 2019
Atlanta-based company acquires pair of Interstate 4 corridor apartment projects

Centennial Holding Co. of Atlanta has added to its Florida portfolio by acquiring a pair of multifamily rental projects in Lakeland and Plant City.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2019
Fired up to help business owners cash in

Felix Lluberes, Matt Bernhardt and Reema Bhatia team up to launch Ignite Partners

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 31, 2019
Medical treatment company opens new area offices

Dr. Charles Mok established Allure Medical in 2004.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 31, 2019
Another competitor enters hot market for co-working space

WeWork, a New York-based co-working company with 425 locations and 400,000 members around the world, will open a 50,000-square-foot facility in Tampa, Florida, in spring 2020.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 30, 2019
Entrepreneur pays $10 million fine, closes federal case

Attorneys say Eric Baird is ‘pleased that these matters have come to a complete conclusion.’

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