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  • October 12, 2018
Rough trade: Firm's electricians show off their skills

St. Petersburg, Florida-based Power Design, one of the nation’s largest electrical contractors, has gotten creative with recruitment and retention programs, notably its "Tough Rougher" competition for electricians.

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  • October 12, 2018
'Tis the season to safeguard your data

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Florida Capital Bank’s information security officer, Ed Bides, has tips for businesses that want to get better at safeguarding their data.

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  • October 12, 2018
In Focus: Sarasota/Bradenton

The Sarasota and Bradenton area submarkets are performing well across the office, industrial and retail sectors, according to statistics compiled by research firm CoStar Group.

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  • October 12, 2018
Banyan Street to buy Tampa City Center?

Banyan Street Capital is poised to acquire the 39-story Tampa City Center skyscraper, which would be the largest transaction in Tampa's downtown in the past three years

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  • October 12, 2018
JLL hires Rivers to lead Florida operations

Tim Rivers will lead commercial real estate brokerage firm JLL's seven offices in Florida

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  • October 12, 2018
Barney named VP at MacFarlane Barney's Prima Luce

Jeff Barney named vice president of business development at MacFarlane Barney Development's planned Prima Luce condo tower in Fort Myers

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  • October 12, 2018
Publix expansion will add significant space to Lakeland headquarters

Publix Super Markets Inc.'s headquarters, when expanded by 2027, will contain as much space as the 31-story Rivergate Tower in downtown Tampa

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  • October 12, 2018
Company falls short of jobs promise, repays county $100,000

rasota Medical only hired 12 people from 2010 to 2015. It fell 49 jobs short of its commitment — even though it already had the county’s $360,000. Company paid back Sarasota County $100,000, with the final payment coming earlier this year.

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  • October 12, 2018
Taking credit

Pioneering credit union Achieva acquires Preferred Community Bank of Lee County.

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  • October 12, 2018
Flap over FPL

MEP Coalition for Fair Competition asks state to investigate FPL and FPL Energy Services, claiming utility uses public assets to boost for-profit contracting business.

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  • October 11, 2018
Affordable housing champion, businessman Harvey Vengroff dies

Harvey Vengroff, described by those who knew him well as a near-perfect case of a life well lived, died Oct. 11.

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  • October 11, 2018
Popular restaurant unveils new look

Tableseide Restaurant Group also shared a new logo for Libby’s Neighborhood Brasserie.

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  • October 11, 2018
Credit union unveils high-tech expansion

Suncoast Credit Union employees have begun moving into the company’s new 107,000-square-foot administration building east of downtown Tampa, Florida.

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  • October 11, 2018
Eye doctor on a mission to Honduras

Dr. Klaus Freeland of Snead Eye Group to perform ophthalmological on underserved village residents.

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  • October 10, 2018
Prominent attorney to step down from firm

Law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney will bid farewell to Rhea Law, shareholder and chairwoman of the firm’s Florida offices, at the end of the year.

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