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  • March 14, 2016
University launches entrepreneur workshops

Florida Gulf Coast University will offer workshops for entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized business to help them with sales and marketing.

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  • March 14, 2016
Homebuilder posts 21% monthly sales increase

The builder sold more than 100 new homes in February.

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  • March 11, 2016
Ideal Image president has died

Bruce Fabel joined the firm in 2012.

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  • March 11, 2016
Tampa law firm names new partner

R. Craig Mayfield defends product liability and high profile personal injury claims.

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  • March 11, 2016
Collier lowers fees for builders

Collier County cut development-related application fees and announced plans to hire 16 people to handle the increased number of applications from developers and builders.

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  • March 11, 2016
Firm moves headquarters, brings 50 jobs to Bradenton

SUNZ Holdings LLC is the parent company to four other businesses.

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  • March 11, 2016
School's in for Silicon retiree

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Alok Sharma's story starts out like a standard script for new Gulf Coast retirees who achieved top line business success somewhere else.

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  • March 11, 2016
Hyatt Regency deal could top 2016 sales

It's still early in the year, but the sale of the 250-suite Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa is shaping up to be among the largest hotel sales of 2016 nationwide.

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  • March 11, 2016
Studs from the swamp

As Florida's land grant school, the University of Florida has a role to create business leaders statewide.

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  • March 11, 2016
Relief put to good use

The Business Rent Tax Coalition, a lobbying effort to eliminate the state's commercial lease tax, has personalized its strategy.

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  • March 11, 2016
Market Spotlight: Naples/Collier County Retail Submarket

Naples' retail market outperformed Collier County and the Southwest Florida region — comprising Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties — in 2015, according to CoStar Group statistics.

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  • March 11, 2016
Teams look to connect

The game of spring training moves is in full swing, again, with multiple municipalities across Florida set to compete with each other — in many cases dangling taxpayer money.

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  • March 11, 2016
Cape out of coma

Cape Coral was one of the hardest-hit cities in the country during the peak of the foreclosure crisis and earned some unflattering names.

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  • March 11, 2016
Love's next generation

Chocolate chef Norman Love is training the next generation of superstar pastry chefs, and they're winning big competitions.

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  • March 11, 2016
Star power

The Starling Group has weathered economic storms, and now appears to be solidly on a course to future prosperity.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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