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  • June 19, 2015
Tampa leaders look to Panama

It's 48 miles long, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and takes more than a day to traverse.

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What can I do to put you in this app?

A Naples startup with a focus on software apps for ecommerce, from cars to used EBay goods, has received a $6.5 million angel investment.

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  • June 19, 2015
LaPlaya Beach Resort sells for $182.3 million

The Pebblebrook Hotel Trust purchased the real estate for the 189-room LaPlaya Beach Resort & Club in Naples for $182.3 million.

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  • June 19, 2015
Commercial real estate profile: Ray Sandelli managing partner, CRE Consultants, Fort Myers

When Ray Sandelli got into the commercial real estate business after years as a pilot for the U.S. Navy and the famed Blue Angels, he found sales, especially cold calling potential clients, to be especially hard.

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Turning up the heat

New energy rules will add efficiency — and costs — to building.

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  • June 19, 2015
Company looks to master buggy domain

A Tampa-based pest control company seeks to boost its over-the-counter Pink Sheets portfolio by joining forces with a Nevada-based competitor -- as a franchisee.

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  • June 19, 2015
Record setter

NorthStar Healthcare Income's $93 million senior housing purchase ranks as the top sale in Sarasota County's history.

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  • June 19, 2015
Dow gets taste of Milwaukee

Tampa-based Dow Electronics already represents the Gulf Coast well, with consumer electronics distribution centers in 11 states across the South. But now it's adding a big name to its lineup.

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  • June 18, 2015
Centennial Bank buys Tampa lender for $102M

Bay Cities Bank has six branches in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, with $541 million in assets.

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  • June 18, 2015
Drug company targets $3.7M

Rock Creek will use the funds for clinical development and working capital.

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  • June 18, 2015
Monthly defaults rise in Fla., but not Fort Myers-Naples

One in every 409 housing units in the state had a foreclosure filing in May.

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  • June 17, 2015
Cape Coral firm changes owners, plans 20 hires

Mike Patrick founded Mike Patrick Electric in 1983.

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  • June 17, 2015
Michael Saunders to move Sarasota sales office

Firm has been in office at Main Street and Osprey Avenue downtown since 1982.

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HSN cuts distribution center, 350 jobs

The cable television retailer is combining two of its four distribution centers, moving work from Virginia to Tennessee.

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  • June 16, 2015
Clearwater medical device firm CFO quits

Jay Ewers will temporarily replace the departing Peter Donato at Bovie Medical Corp.

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