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  • June 3, 2016
Tampa buildings up for major award

Tampa City Center, Bank of America Plaza and the Waterford Plaza will find out later this month if they're outstanding.

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  • June 3, 2016
Homes that really matter

Sarasota entrepreneur Justin Mizell is used to dirty work.

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  • June 3, 2016
Chico's proxy battle

It's only been 180 days since Shelley Broader was named president and CEO of women's retailer Chico's FAS, but the job of turning around the struggling company just got a lot harder.

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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • June 3, 2016
Tampa Bay office market surging

How hot is the Tampa Bay office market? Scorching — if 2015 sales volume is any indication.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 3, 2016
Prof launched Free Market U

When he became the first economics professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers 19 years ago, Bradley Hobbs was on a mission to create a department that would be a bastion of free market principles.

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  • June 3, 2016
MARKET SPOTLIGHT: Sarasota/Bradenton office market

The Sarasota and Bradenton office market has been marked by shrinking vacancy over the past 18 months, and select sales of assets — including the four-building Gateway Professional Center, which sold for $37.1 million in May 2015 — have spurred investor interest.

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  • June 3, 2016
Billionaire buys Naples tract

A partnership tied to billionaire Palm Beach investor Jeff Greene has acquired a more than 2,500-acre tract in North Naples for $38.5 million, the largest land sale of the past year in that swath of Southwest Florida involving an ongoing agricultural and mining operation.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 3, 2016
It takes a village

The Villages, a large senior community about 100 miles north of Tampa, has another claim to fame: It helps make Sumter County the best place in Florida to get the most out of U.S. Social Security benefits.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 2, 2016
Firm hired to aid Herald-Tribune in HQ search

Newspaper has been in downtown building since 2005.

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  • June 2, 2016
College launches private pilot ground school

It will be the second private pilot ground school offered by the college this year.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 2, 2016
Broker pleads guilty to mortgage scheme

He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 2, 2016
Sailing champ to help run Fort Myers company

Offshore Sailing School named sailing champion Robert Brooks as its director of operations to oversee the company's seven locations.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 1, 2016
Community foundation brings in new board members

The board brought in three new members and elected four officers.

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  • June 1, 2016
Web search firm targets growth

Web-search firm Yippy says it plans to acquire Michael Cizmar & Associates to attract customers who have been using Google Search Appliance.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 1, 2016
Health firm makes fourth acquisition in eight months

The acquisition will give the firm a regional office in Las Vegas.

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