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  • January 19, 2015
Lazydays grows, upgrades RV Resort

The new RV park features a number of new and upgraded amenities.

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  • January 19, 2015
Naples home prices keep rising

The median price of a single-family home and condominium in Naples rose nearly 15% in December compared with the same month in 2013.

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  • January 19, 2015
Sarasota Web firm expands to Bosnia

Former SkyMall technology exec will help oversee office.

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  • January 16, 2015
Sunforest building undergoing $5M improvements

Avison Young is leading the renovations and upgrades to the low-rise Westshore office building that houses Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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  • January 16, 2015
Former Allstate exec to run Lakewood Ranch firm

Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co. has operations on two coasts.

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  • January 16, 2015
Regional council elects chair

The Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council elected Robert Mulhere as chairman of the agency that reviews growth management.

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  • January 16, 2015
St. Petersburg buyers acquire The Colton Apartment

A company led by Nicole Matoushek and Phillip Herlein of St. Petersburg purchased the 17-unit The Colton Apartment for $1.2 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
Lee Drywall buys Bill Creek building for additional storage

Lee Drywall Inc. purchased a 40,023-square-foot industrial building for $1.31 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
Casto Southeast buys land for future Port Charlotte project

The real estate firm Casto purchased 12.2 acres on Veterans Boulevard west of Cochran Boulevard for $1.03 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
Investors buy industrial land on Englewood's River Road

Investors Daniel and Leah Light, Shannon Pirron, an investment managed by Randy Thibaut and the Joan M. Reese Revocable Trust purchased 93.2 acres of industrial land for $1 million.

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  • January 16, 2015
Yea for Entrepreneurs

The Young Entrepreneurs Academy, with eight locations in Florida and more than 100 nationwide in 37 states, will make its debut on the Gulf Coast later this year.

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  • January 16, 2015
Hizzoner joins bank board

Randy Henderson may be best known as the mayor of Fort Myers, but fewer people may know his early career was in banking.

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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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