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News

    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 12, 2025
Closed Nellie's Deli building in Sarasota to get new restaurant

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Bradenton mobile home park is part of $65 million loan package, a Pasco retail property gets a $3.7 million mortgage, and a Fort Myers Beach institution is sold.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 11, 2025
Manatee County buys Seafood Shack property in Cortez for $13M

Acquisition of the Seafood Shack property will have a "generational impact" on his district, one commissioner says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 10, 2025
Tampa community bank elects first new chairman in quarter-century

G. Robert Blanchard Jr., who has been on the Bank of Tampa board since 1997 and whose father was one of the founding investors of the bank, now serves as chairman.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • January 10, 2025
Lee County waterfront home sale sets resort record at nearly $10M

The South Seas Resort, a luxury development on Captiva Island, closed out 2024 with a record sale: a $9.67 million purchase of a five-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom private residence.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • January 9, 2025
Macy's makes it official: Underperforming Sarasota, Tampa locations to close

The company plans to close 66 stores this year.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 9, 2025
Decades-old Fort Myers Beach restaurant sells for $5.5 million

Bonita Bill's Waterfront Cafe was bought by a local Fort Myers restaurant group.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 9, 2025
Second Toasted Yolk Cafe in Sarasota opens

The cofounders of the Toasted Yolk Cafe brand own the Lakewood Ranch restaurant.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 8, 2025
Fort Myers office to be demolished to make way for apartments

An Indiana buyer spent nearly $9 million to buy a local office building it will bring down to build 256 rental units.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 8, 2025
DOJ warns of new scam involving jury duty summons

The victim in a recent case was from Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 8, 2025
Former L.L. Bean family beachfront property lists for $40M in Naples

The property on 5th Avenue South includes 130 feet of beach frontage.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 8, 2025
Rare drive-thru-only Chick-fil-A opens in Pasco, will hire 100

The fast-food chain joins 50 other restaurants serving the Tampa Bay market.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • January 8, 2025
Noted Lakewood Ranch office building listed for sale

A nearly 30,000-square-foot office building on a 5-acre Lakewood Ranch site is pitched as a potential corporate headquarters for a new owner.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 7, 2025
Pinellas shopping center sells for $5.6 million

A New York company has bought Largo's Central Park Plaza, which counts NAPA Auto Parts and Rent-A-Center as tenants.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • January 7, 2025
St. Pete palliative care physician charged with sexually exploiting kids

Dr. Stephen Andrew Leedy has worked in Tampa Bay and Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 7, 2025
Lee County Port Authority names new COO and aviation leader

The agency that operates Southwest Florida International Airport and Page Field in Fort Myers adds a member to its C-suite.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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