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  • January 16, 2015
Gainesville's Collier Cos. buys Camden Lakeside apartments

Gainesville-based apartment company The Collier Cos. purchased the 228-unit Camden Lakeside apartments in Brandon for $22.35 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
2015 surprises: office, industrial growth

As Wells Fargo Senior Economist Mark Vitner wound down his 2015 forecast Wednesday in Sarasota for the members of the Gulf Coast CEO Forum, he saved his headline news for last:The biggest economic surprise in 2015 for Florida, Vitner predicted, will be “how substantially the single-family housing market will have rebounded and how office and industrial will have done as well as it did.

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  • January 16, 2015
Naples firm navigates Hollywood

Filming a fast-boat chase through the Hong Kong Harbor at night and navigating a 1,000-foot ship with helicopters through the Malacca Straights, one of the world's busiest ship channels, takes a steady hand at the helm.

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Headquarters sweepstakes heats up

The big to-do in national corporate headquarters relocation news so far for 2015 is Mercedes-Benz blowing out of New Jersey for metro Atlanta.

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  • January 16, 2015
Mattamy Homes buys development land in Forest Lakes Golf and Country Club

Mattamy Homes purchased 24 acres near the northeast corner of Beneva Road and Webber Street for $5.88 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
Real estate market looks bright

The national commercial real estate market is fairly healthy going into 2015, according to an analysis from global property firm CBRE Group.

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  • January 16, 2015
Brightwork Real Estate buys ranch land for Wawa

Brightwork Real Estate Inc. purchased 2.14 acres at the intersection of State Road 70 and Lorraine Road for $1.2 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
Michigan real estate firm McKinley buys Liv @ Boca Ciega waterfront apartments

Ann Arbor, Mich.-based real estate firm McKinley Inc. purchased the 50-unit Liv @ Boca Ciega apartments in South Pasadena for $6 million.

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  • January 15, 2015
Enviro-Serv buying Tampa Pestmaster franchise

The company believes the pest-control company will give it greater access to government contracts.

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  • January 15, 2015
Hodges names business dean

Hodges University named Aysegul Timur dean of the Johnson School of Business, where she has been teaching since 2000.

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  • January 15, 2015
Four new execs to bolster fast growth at Datum

One of the new hires previously oversaw 60 employees at Bloomin' Brands.

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  • January 15, 2015
Hertz shuffles exec suite

It hasn't taken long for newly appointed Hertz President and CEO John Tague to shake things up at the car-rental giant.

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  • January 14, 2015
IT security firm promotes partner

Robert Carr spent the past three years managing the firm's attack and testing team.

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First Watch lassos its biggest franchise deal

Company to open its first stores in Texas, starting in Dallas, in late 2015.

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  • January 14, 2015
Government blesses algae fuel

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Algenol's biofuels for use by refiners to meet renewable-fuel standards.

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