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  • June 9, 2016
ISO young entrepreneurs

A one-week CEO Academy program will teach young entrepreneurs the basics of running a successful business.

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  • June 8, 2016
Region's home prices up nearly 10%

Home prices nationwide increased by 6.2% year-over-year.

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  • June 8, 2016
Health firm brings in new president and CEO

The new executive will also serve as a member of the company's board of directors.

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  • June 8, 2016
Airport traffic jumps 33%

Nearly one million people have traveled through the Punta Gorda Airport in the last 12 months.

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  • June 7, 2016
Firm failed on jobs promise, owes county $200K

Sarasota Medical Products received $360,000 in 2010.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • June 7, 2016
Health care exec resigns to join new company

Blair Todt spent the past six years with the company.

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  • June 7, 2016
Feds target rural development

The U.S. Department of Agriculture targets economic development and job creation in eastern Collier County.

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  • June 6, 2016
Tech startup expands HQ, plans to add 46 jobs

The company will add the new jobs over the next five years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • June 6, 2016
Man facing financial scheme charges busted again

He was charged with two counts of bank fraud and faced a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for each count.

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  • June 6, 2016
New-home permits rise

Lee County issued 9% more permits for single-family homes in May compared with the same month in 2015.

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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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