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Governor appoints area CFO to university board

Medallion Homes Vice President and CFO Charlie Tokarz will serve on the USF Board of Trustees.

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  • January 21, 2018
Entrepreneur opens door to exit strategy

Action Automatic Door & Gate was founded in 1973.

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Former Fidelity exec joins consulting firm as COO

Steven McCarthy will help lead Tampa-based BlueLine Associates.

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  • January 19, 2018
Prominent architecture group changes ownership

Mike Bryant sold Fawley Bryant Architecture through a management buyout.

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  • January 19, 2018
Havana Square perpetuates multifamily trend

A 274-unit luxury apartment project in Tampa has sold for $58.1 million, perpetuating a sales trend involving multifamily rental projects that has dominated along the Gulf Coast since 2014.

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Scissor sense

Apartment 12 Hair Studio just keeps growing.

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  • January 19, 2018
Membership has its benefits

Florida's economy may hit the $1-trillion threshold.

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  • January 19, 2018
Key to success

Blue Steel Development and JLL think Polk County's Key Logistics will benefit from its size and speed of delivery.

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  • January 19, 2018
Gulf Coast MPCs sales soared last year

Two Gulf Coast master-planned communities were tops in the nation in sales last year, and a third Florida community posted the best numbers in the U.S.

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  • January 19, 2018
All Related

Miami-based Related Group is diversifying in multiple ways, to the benefit of St. Petersburg and Tampa.

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  • January 19, 2018
Fashion fore ever

Motherputter tees up fashion for women on the golf course.

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  • January 19, 2018
Sarasota industrial inventory tightening

United Natural Foods Inc. took down an additional 40,038 square feet in Sarasota's Independent Business Center last fall, expanding on the 90,000 square feet it already had in the same park space the food distributor maintains in the massive Meridian Distribution Center off Clark Road.

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  • January 19, 2018
Talent search blooms

University of South Florida is looking for corporate partners to prepare our workforce.

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  • January 19, 2018
Tax reform expected to boost CRE profits, investment

Tax Cut and Jobs Act will help investors and landlords alike.

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  • January 19, 2018
Novel approach

Best-selling writer's group gets nod for restaurant on the new St. Pete Pier.

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