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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2016
King of the (Harley) World

Texas and Arizona auto dealer Bert King bought a Charlotte County Harley-Davidson dealership last summer and quickly infused it with a strategy to make it a club-like destination. Strategy components, for what he renamed Bert's Black Widow, include kegs of free beer and bikini-clad girls.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2016
Senior living grows crowded

Michigan-based developer Dale Watchowski isn't necessarily daunted by competition from others in the region-wide senior housing industry boom, but it's something he thinks about — often.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2016
Broker buys real estate company

Kristen Pell joined Treeline Realty Corp. in 2009.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • September 2, 2016
Industrial revolution

McCraney Property Co.'s latest speculative distribution offering is part of a new paradigm for logistics firms.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • September 2, 2016
Q&A | RICK HARCROW

Rick Harcrow joined Jacksonville-based GreenPointe Communities last year to oversee the development of a potential $1 billion waterfront development in downtown Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • September 2, 2016
Polk County lands new Medline center

Medline Industries Inc., the nation's largest privately held maker and distributor of health care-related products, is planning to develop a new 830,000-square-foot distribution center beginning later this year in Auburndale.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • September 2, 2016
Farley White in buying mode

Boston-based Farley White Interests, fresh from its $73 million acquisition of the Hidden River I, II and III complex in Tampa's Westshore district last month, hopes to assemble a portfolio of Florida properties.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2016
Large land firms reel in recognition

Two firms are designated “America's Best Brokerages.”

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 1, 2016
German firm grows in U.S. through Tampa

Trans-Market Sales & Equipment Inc. does about $30 million a year in sales.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 1, 2016
National builder forges ahead on new project

Toll Bros. recently closed on a deal to buy 133 acres in Collier County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 1, 2016
Home starts surge at master-planned community

West Villages comprises four communities totaling 10,000 acres in south Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2016
Bank gets edgy with expansion plans

Tampa-based GulfShore Bank's newest branch is in St. Petersburg's downtown Edge district.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2016
Real estate brokerage punts Michigan, lands in Sarasota

McMullen Properties Inc. was founded in 1910.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2016
Recession-era image for Cape Coral endures

Region is one of 10 metro areas nationwide to have recovered the least from its housing peak.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 30, 2016
Roofing firm spurned in Sarasota lands in Tampa

North American Roofing Co. plans to move its corporate headquarters from North Carolina to Tampa.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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