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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2018
Contractor adds senior official

Gates Construction hires 30-year veteran Tom Rife.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2018
Well known real estate attorney, partner switches firms

Prominent area real estate attorney Tom Luzier is moving from Dunlap & Moran P.A., where he had been a shareholder, to Williams Parker, where he will be a partner. Luzier has successfully closed more than $1 billion in transactions to date over the past

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 3, 2018
Business owner behind $10 million steel company dies at 63

Ralph George, who friends called a gifted storyteller with an infectious smile and a passion for sports and the military, particularly his alma mater, the Virginia Military Institute, died, suddenly, Aug. 20. He was 63.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Bank scores sponsorship deal with college football team

Valley National Bank signs a pact with USF's football team.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Employees vindicated in trade secrets lawsuit

A Sarasota County judicial magistrate has dismissed a lawsuit against a Sarasota printing company and two individual defendants who were accused of unfair and deceptive trade practices, theft of trade secrets and other counts.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Health care system names new watchdog officer

Jeffrey Pigott is the new vice president of regulatory compliance and internal auditing for Lee Health.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 31, 2018
Gulf Coast hotel sales climb into new territory

The $171 million sale of the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota resort, among other hotels, shows that Gulf Coast lodging properties are gaining in popularity among institutional investors such as real estate investment trusts.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 31, 2018
Teachers Insurance buys St. Petersburg apartments

Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association pays $81.1 million for St. Petersburg apartment complex Fusion 1560, in one of the largest multifamily rental transactions in the Tampa Bay area this year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 31, 2018
Central Florida leases pair of buildings at Commerce center

Central Florida Development has fully leased a pair of speculative industrial buildings it constructed in the Central Florida Commerce Center,in Lakeland

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 31, 2018
AAA completes relocation to Renaissance Center in Tampa

AAA relocates 750 workers to new office space in Tampa's Westshore Business District after fully leasing a speculative building that New Jersey-based Vision Properties developed at the 71-acre Renaissance Center business park.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
A healthy ranking

Lee Health ranked among Forbes 2018 America’s Best Employers for Women

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  • Brian Hartz
  • August 31, 2018
Skin deep: Renovation brings the past to life

Clearwater, Florida-based lighting manufacturer Zaniboni Lighting has spared no expense on the renovation of its headquarters, which just so happens to be the ancestral home of the Clearwater police and fire departments, a building that dates back to 1928

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Tech talent search gets under way in Tampa Bay

ETL Tampa Bay is a new group dedicated to grooming and promoting the leaders of the tech industry in Tampa, Florida.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Trading places: All aboard for Chile

Global Tampa Bay, a local trade group, has lined up a sales export mission to Santiago, Chile, in late October and still has spots available.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Both ends of size spectrum represented among most wish-listed properties

Earlier this summer, Airbnb revealed the most “wish-listed” properties for each county in Florida.

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