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  • November 23, 2018
Baby boom

Do baby boomers have an exit strategy ready to go for their business? By one count, not really.

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  • November 21, 2018
Hospital hires Harvard Medical School instructor for VP spot

Paul Simeone hired as vice president of mental and behavioral health at Lee Health.

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  • November 20, 2018
CEO-focused group appoints new president

Marina Wolf-Schmidt joins three others in officer positions with the Gulf Coast CEO Forum.

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  • November 20, 2018
Developer — comparing St. Pete to Austin — plans luxury condos

Michel Regignano says city ‘has the developmental potential to be another Austin, Texas, with all of its positive economic attributes.’

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  • November 20, 2018
Senior living firm names two new executives

Jack McCarthy and Jamie Holiefield will be based in St. Petersburg with Solvere Living.

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  • November 20, 2018
Tampa Bay Rays’ $892 million Ybor City dream edges closer to reality

Tampa Bay Rays 2020, a nonprofit group of business and community leaders that’s drumming up support for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, has secured $160 million in support for the project.

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  • November 20, 2018
Law firm elects new managing partner

Matthew Plummer will continue to lead Blalock Walters' real estate, banking, finance, land use and local government law practice groups.

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  • November 19, 2018
Major airline adds spring flight to Denver

Service from Sarasota to Denver will operate in March 2019.

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  • November 19, 2018
Trade mission to Chile nets more than $3M in export sales

Global Tampa Bay, previously known as the Tampa Bay Export Alliance, hosted a trade mission in October to Santiago, Chile, that has produced $3.35 million in future sales and economic activity for participating companies.

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  • November 19, 2018
Roofing company completes large high school project

Target Roofing installs 210,000 square feet of roofing, 1.5 miles of gutter and fascia at Estero High School.

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  • November 19, 2018
Digital marketing firm acquires printing operation

iPartnerMedia expands product and service offerings by merging with Bonita Print Shop.

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  • November 16, 2018
Billion-dollar investment firm opens new office in area

PROVISE, a Clearwater, Florida-based financial planning and investment management firm, has expanded its footprint in the area by opening an office in Tampa’s Westshore business district.

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  • November 16, 2018
Economic forecast: Kyle Parks, principal, B2 Communications, St. Petersburg

Kyle Parks, principal of B2 Communications in St. Petersburg, Florida, says labor and low unemployment will be the story of 2019.

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  • November 16, 2018
Rocket science: MarineMax fills a need for NASA

Clearwater, Florida-based boat retailer MarineMax lent the skills of members of its Houston-based service team to NASA for a project that will help astronauts someday explore reaches of space beyond the moon, including Mars.

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  • November 16, 2018
Low-fare airline adds service to seven new airports

Frontier Airlines expands flights to five western and two eastern destinations, now offers 23 routes from Southwest Florida International Airport.

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