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  • August 23, 2016
Company exceeds subsidy-based job requirements

Cheney Bros. is closing in on 400 employees in Charlotte County.

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  • August 23, 2016
Document company boosts growth strategy

Syracuse, N.Y-based Avalon Document Services opened an office in Tampa earlier this year.

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  • August 22, 2016
Bradenton company targets growth in India office

Bradenton-based immigration services firm Pro-Link Global was founded in 2005.

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  • August 22, 2016
Tampa tech firm hires former Oracle sales leader

Doug Iverson was most recently vice president of North America Sales for Oracle-Retail.

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  • August 22, 2016
Police charge man in Amazon cargo extortion scam

Julio Hernandez, 36, was charged with one count of cargo theft and one count of extortion.

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  • August 19, 2016
Rays sign new player: a Realtor

Jennifer Zales is the official real estate agent of the Tampa Bay Rays.

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  • August 19, 2016
Williams picks JLL to sell 4,470-acre Lakeland tract

Williams Acquisition Holding Co. LLC has hired commercial brokerage firm JLL to sell a 4,470-acre property in Lakeland, one of the largest blocks of land to come to market in Central Florida in recent history.

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  • August 19, 2016
Shoots and scores

Apartment renters in a new luxury complex in fast-growing Estero will have a perk that few, if any, competitors can offer: A team full of minor league hockey players as neighbors.

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  • August 19, 2016
Colliers International snags Osprey listings, staffers

Ending months of speculation over the fate of Osprey S.A. Ltd.'s portfolio of more than a dozen office buildings in Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa, the Michigan-based firm has awarded listings to commercial real estate brokerage Colliers International Tampa Bay.

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  • August 19, 2016
Builder vindicated in copyright case

Two area homebuilders recently battled in state and federal court over an unusual allegation.

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  • August 19, 2016
Lending firm looks for leg up

Shares of Tampa-based mortgage origination and servicing firm Walter Investment Management Corp., hovering around its 52-week low in early August, scored a bump in the middle of the month.

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  • August 19, 2016
Shift that Space

A group of Gulf Coast technology entrepreneurs and a top commercial restate broker have teamed up to launch SpaceShifter.com, an online marketing platform to share commercial real estate information and present listings.

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  • August 19, 2016
Lessons in real estate

Three Florida ZIP codes, including two on the Gulf Coast, made the top 10 in a study of neighborhoods with at least one good school that represents the best home buying bargains nationwide.

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  • August 19, 2016
CBC Saunders forms auction division

Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate, a Lakeland-based commercial real estate brokerage firm, has formed a new division to auction commercial and residential properties.

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  • August 19, 2016
Full circle

J. Mark Stroud has worked with some of the top developers in the region. Now, he's back working mainly for himself.

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