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  • September 30, 2025
Caldwell Trust CEO wins statewide industry award

Kelly Caldwell was named Trust Banker of the Year by the leading banking industry lobbying group in Florida.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • September 29, 2025
Bradenton Area EDC creates task force, seeks new contract with Manatee County

The Bradenton Area EDC believes a 90-day task force will present commissioners with previously overlooked data and information.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • September 29, 2025
Fort Myers car dealership properties sell for $33.7 million

The Orlando car dealer Bill Nero Automotive Group has bought two Galeana Automotive Group owned dealerships in Lee County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • September 29, 2025
Highways, homebuilders and nonprofits: September on 'From the Corner Office' podcast

Some of the key insights and pieces of wisdom bits from the past month of "From the Corner Office" podcast episodes.

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  • Elizabeth King
  • September 29, 2025
Sarasota Memorial Health Care reaches agreement with Cigna

The health care system has a new contract with the health insurer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Anastasia Dawson
  • September 29, 2025
St. Pete bank to sell $103M in small business loans to Miami company

BayFirst Financial Corp., parent company of BayFirst National Bank, announced plans Sept. 29 to exit the SBA 7(a) lending business and sell its $103 million loan balance to Banesco USA.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • September 29, 2025
IMG Academy to host NBA training camp

The Cleveland Cavaliers will be in Bradenton this week training for the 2025–2026 NBA season.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • September 29, 2025
Canadian insurance firm expands to US, buys Lee County firm

Ottawa-based Gifford Carr Insurance Group acquired Omni One. a four-year old business in Cape Coral.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Louis Llovio
  • September 28, 2025
Clearwater insurtech company expands with new facility

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a downtown Fort Myers office building sells, a Tampa dentist buys a new office, and a Bradenton rental community starts its final phase.

  • Florida
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  • Elizabeth King
  • September 28, 2025
Pennsylvania bank to acquire Sarasota financial firm

The parent company of Mid Penn Bank is acquiring Cumberland Advisors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • September 27, 2025
California investor sells Cape Coral vacant lot

The less than 1-acre parcel sold to a local financial management firm.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Louis Llovio
  • September 27, 2025
Dental practice buys building for Tampa practice

Westchase Smiles picked up the property in the Westchase master-planned community for $1.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Mark Gordon
  • September 27, 2025
Bank of America pushes minimum wage to $25 an hour

The move impacts more than 800 employees in the Naples, Fort Myers, Sarasota and Bradenton metro areas.

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  • Anastasia Dawson
  • September 26, 2025
New operator picked for Tampa Bay ferry, plans to buy two vessels

Hubbard’s Ferry, a family-owned fishing and cruising venture out of Madeira Beach, has been selected to operate a daily, year-round ferry service between Tampa and St. Petersburg.

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  • September 26, 2025
$108M high school renovation, expansion complete near Fort Myers

Planning and technology helped keep the Riverdale High School project on schedule despite hurricanes, according to Suffolk Construction Company.

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