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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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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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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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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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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.

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  • March 11, 2016
Executive anxiety rises

The volatility and recent struggles of the U.S. economy haven't gone unnoticed, and business executives have voiced concerns.

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  • March 11, 2016
Leave your wallet in San Francisco

It's not just a five-hour flight that separates the bay areas of San Francisco versus the bay areas of Tampa and St. Petersburg.

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  • March 10, 2016
Chief medical officer recognized in top 100 list

Thomas Trinchetto is the chief medical officer at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota.

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  • March 10, 2016
Insurance firm plunges into new market

The program from HCI Group will have an online platform for quoting and binding coverage.

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  • March 10, 2016
Punta Gorda Airport traffic surges

Punta Gorda Airport says passenger traffic rose 37.5% in February as Allegiant Air flies nonstop to 30 cities from the Charlotte County airport.

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Airport posts best February in history

The St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport posted an 18% year-over-year increase for the month.

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