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  • April 27, 2016
Foreclosure rate continues to drop

February marked the sixth month in a row that the foreclosure rate decreased.

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  • April 27, 2016
Homebuilder CEO says demand has slowed

Developer and homebuilder WCI Communities says first-quarter revenues rose nearly 42% compared with the same quarter a year ago.

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  • April 26, 2016
Chico's cuts $11M in marketing expenses

Women's retailer Chico's FAS says it plans to decentralize its marketing and digital commerce, a move the company says will save $11 million in marketing expenses this year.

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  • April 26, 2016
Architect buys into medical facility design market

The firm is headquartered in Lakeland.

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  • April 26, 2016
Sarasota firm adds new services with acquisition

Military Cut provides lawn services for commercial, residential and government sectors.

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  • April 25, 2016
'Uber for moving' to create 100 jobs in Tampa

The company is hoping to field 150 applications from local college students.

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  • April 25, 2016
Sarasota, state offer $200K to woo companies

Two firms have committed to create a combined 48 jobs in Sarasota County.

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  • April 25, 2016
Top Chico's exec gets national retail position

The National Retail Federation named Chico's FAS' Miki Berardelli as chairwoman of the federation's marketing council.

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  • April 22, 2016
Developer's lament

Homebuilders often cite the high cost of regulations as a reason there are affordable housing predicaments in so many markets nationwide.

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  • April 22, 2016
College launches pre-engineering program

The USF Sarasota-Manatee campus will work in combination with the Tampa campus.

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  • April 22, 2016
Hotel developer reworks management team

The firm added or promoted seven members to its corporate management team.

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  • April 22, 2016
Get on the best list

The Gulf Coast 500, which the Business Observer will publish this summer, is the most comprehensive look at the largest companies in the region.

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  • April 22, 2016
From struggle to success

There was a time when Brandon Phillips had so little money he had to choose between filling his car with gasoline to visit a prospective client or buying food for dinner.

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  • April 22, 2016
Market Spotlight | Lee County Industrial Market

Lee County's industrial market, which consists of roughly 2,170 buildings totaling 30.55 million square feet of space in Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, the city of Fort Myers, Estero, Lehigh, North and South Fort Myers and its islands, had an overall vacancy rate of 5.8% at the end of the first quarter of this year.

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  • April 22, 2016
Tap the expert

In Florida, the politics of water are as complicated as the system of canals and dikes that control flooding south of Orlando.

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