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  • October 10, 2016
Tampa woman convicted in $2.5M health care scam

Garcia Lorenzo is the owner of Gold Care Home Health Services Inc.

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Homebuilder names new area executive

Michael Stephens had been with KB Homes for four years.

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  • October 9, 2016
Officials approve Whole Foods project

Daniels Marketplace will include the first Whole Foods in Fort Myers.

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  • October 7, 2016
Retailer lures national CEO for a top post

Diane Ellis was most recently CEO of The Limited.

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  • October 7, 2016
Nonprofit spends $625K on land for expansion

Manatee YMCA officials say the new project could be built in three to five years.

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  • October 7, 2016
Health care giant buys Arizona companies for $157M

Companies provide benefits to roughly 114,000 people in Arizona.

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  • October 7, 2016
CommERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE | Charles Mann

Charles Mann is the managing partner of the Pavese Law Firm, which has offices in Fort Myers, Cape Coral and West Palm Beach.

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  • October 7, 2016
Biter reviving apartments plan

More than 1,400 new apartments are slated to come online in downtown Sarasota during the next year or so, an explosion of product in a city of roughly 55,000 made possible by macro trends and the city's adoption of a residential overlay district that granted density bonuses to developers.

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Feldman Equities is growing, hiring

In preparation for the development of a 52-story mixed-use downtown skyscraper in Tampa and potential acquisitions, Feldman Equities LLC has hired a handful of new employees in the past month.

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  • October 7, 2016
A positive trend for Gulf Coast CRE?

“As pricing in first-tier markets stalls and yields hover in the sub-4 percent range in some of the major gateway markets — which are, in some cases, already in peak pricing territory — we should probably expect investors to move more aggressively into secondary and tertiary markets — and to opportunities beyond core assets to core-plus and value-add properties.”So says David Lynn, CEO and chairman of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Everest Medical Core Properties.

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Growth point

A new study says Florida's population will surge by 2070. That could be good news for commercial real estate sectors.

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  • October 7, 2016
Condo project hits milestone

The Naples luxury condo real estate market remains hot.

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IN MEMORIAM | Aaron W. Hendry 1936-2016

Aaron Hendry had family connections in the Tampa area maritime and ship repair industry through his dad, Captain F.M. Hendry.

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  • October 7, 2016
Let's Make a Deal

Sarasota and Manatee counties crush the rest of the Gulf Coast when it comes to the lowest prices of used cars, according to a new report from Autolist.com.

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Tampa doctor buys downtown Sarasota Hyatt

Equity fund Blackstone Group had owned the hotel since May 2007.

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