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  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Southwest Florida

Like the Sarasota and Manatee submarket, Southwest Florida's largest commercial sales of the past year involved apartment projects.

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  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Sarasota-Manatee

Although the largest commercial real estate transaction in Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2016 involved a hotel, multifamily projects were the star asset class in the region.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 30, 2016
Revenge of the suburbs

Apartment sales dominated commercial real estate transactions along the Gulf Coast in 2016 as investors scrambled to capitalize on the region's rising rental rates and job and population growth.

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  • December 30, 2016
Firm finds a branch

What was once one of the largest tree-planting firms in the region, Turner Tree and Landscape, has a new owner after a tumultuous five-year run that included several foreclosures and a bankruptcy filing.

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  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Tampa

The top Tampa Bay commercial real estate sales of 2016 stand in stark contrast to those of the prior year, and reversed a trend toward investors buying downtown trophy properties.

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  • December 23, 2016
Lee Memorial deal dominates Southwest Florida

Speaking of superlatives, Lee Memorial Health System's commitment to lease 40,000 square feet of space being constructed adjacent to its hospital in Fort Myers marks the largest office deal of the year.

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  • December 23, 2016
A new day at the dock

Officials at the Bird Key Yacht Club, which has a long and notable history in the Sarasota area, faced some significant issues in 2013.

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  • December 23, 2016
Horizon Bay at Hyde Park sells for $74 million

In one of the largest senior-living deals along the Gulf Coast in 2016, a St. Louis-based company has acquired the Horizon Bay at Hyde Park independent and assisted-living project in Tampa for $74 million.

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  • December 23, 2016
Hiring skills

Nearly four out of 10, 38%, of corporate CFOs say a mismatched skill set is the top reason new hires fail, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Finance & Accounting.

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  • Beth Luberecki
  • December 23, 2016
Venice on the verge

This southern Sarasota County city has gone from afterthought to a developer's darling. What's fueling the mini-boom?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 23, 2016
Citigroup deal is tops for Tampa in 2016

At $116 million, Citigroup Technology Inc.'s purchase of the six-building office campus in Tampa that houses its Global Shared Service Operation Center will likely rank as the largest single-asset sale of 2016 on the Gulf Coast.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2016
Banks battle back

The battle between banks and credit unions, usually top-of-mind for area community bankers and credit union executives, has escalated.

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  • December 23, 2016
Think Big to get Big

A strategy shift that began as far back as spring 2015 at Tampa-based Garden Light LED, which designs, engineers and manufactures architectural and outdoor lighting, could produce big results in 2017.

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  • December 23, 2016
Price it right

The Naples real estate market, say several brokers and agents, is ready to pounce on a hotbed of activity in early 2017, given pending and closed sales data.

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  • December 23, 2016
Builder builds up client list

Halfacre Construction, one of the most established locally owned commercial builders in the Sarasota-Manatee region, scored two major victories recently.

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