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  • June 3, 2016
College names new board leadership

The university elected a new chair and a new vice chair.

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  • June 3, 2016
Airline launches flights to Bahamas

Silver Airways has launched nonstop flights from Fort Myers and Tampa to Nassau, Bahamas.

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  • June 3, 2016
Vacation of a lifetime?

Talk about a working vacation: More than half the respondents in a new PNC Bank survey say they would choose either Warren Buffett or Mark Zuckerberg as the top business people to partner up with on a vacation.

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  • June 3, 2016
'Heartbreaker' of a deal

A veteran real estate agent took on a failed car dealership site in Tampa. The result? A lawsuit, $12 million in debt, guns, drugs and seven contracts.

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  • June 3, 2016
Hertz: Two-for-one HQ

When Lee County scored an economic development coup three years ago with the global corporate headquarters of Hertz from New Jersey, few could have forecast the region would land two corporate headquarters from the deal.

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  • June 3, 2016
Tampa leads the way

A Realtor.com study lists Tampa as the city that gained the most residents based on a calculation of the ratio of inbound to outbound moves.

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

Newspaper has been in downtown building since 2005.

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