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  • August 22, 2014
Sarasota Bradenton airport gets $9M for tower

Grant comes from user fees on airline tickets and aviation fuel.

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  • August 22, 2014
Airport traffic jumps in July

A robust summer tourist season boosted passenger traffic at the Fort Myers airport by 6.1% in July.

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  • August 22, 2014
In Memoriam: John Arthur Jones 1921-2014

Tampa attorney John Arthur Jones, a World War II veteran who served under Gen. George Patton, ran tight meetings at prominent law firm Holland & Knight.

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  • August 22, 2014
Chinese hack hospital data

Patients now have a lot more than biological threats to worry about when they check in to a hospital.

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  • August 22, 2014
Back in the top 10

It's no secret that residential construction has rebounded in a big way on the Gulf Coast.

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  • August 22, 2014
Burn, debt, burn: Airport torches paper

Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport officials celebrated the 25th anniversary of its main terminal building in style: They burned a copy of the bonds connected to the construction of the building, a symbolic flame for the end of debt.

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  • August 22, 2014
Lawyers in treatment

This is not another lawyer joke.

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  • August 22, 2014
High tech jobs see the sun

Not many would call Florida a technology jobs hotbed, short of a few fast-growth high-tech businesses that dot the state.

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  • August 22, 2014
Pittsburgh's ECHO Realty buys Publix-anchored Paradise Plaza

Pittsburgh-based ECHO Realty LP purchased the 139,000-square-foot Paradise Plaza for $26.72 million.

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  • August 22, 2014
MacDaddy's building sells, buyers planning redevelopment

LandQwest Commercial partner Rokki Rogan and John and Jeff Stultz of the Fort Myers general contractor Stultz Inc. purchased a 5,796-square-foot MacDaddy's sports restaurant building for $1.2 million.

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  • August 22, 2014
American Realty Capital Properties buys six Gulf Coast Red Lobster restaurants

American Realty Capital Properties Inc. purchased six Gulf Coast-area Red Lobsters restaurants as part of a larger acquisition of the seafood restaurant's sites nationwide.

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  • August 22, 2014
Louisiana's Level Homes planning west of Trail subdivision

Baton Rouge, La.-based Level Homes transferred 23 lots to another entity it owns for $4.1 million.

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  • August 22, 2014
Willner Realty & Development buys Lincoln Shores apartments

Willner Realty & Development Co. purchased the real estate, furnishings and business operations of the 631-unit Lincoln Shores apartments for $53 million.

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  • August 22, 2014
Realco Capital Partners buys College Court, Campus Club

Realco Capital Partners LLC has entered the University of South Florida student housing market. The Stamford, Conn.-based investment and development firm purchased the 92-unit College Court for $11.8 million and the 64-unit Campus Club for $10.5 million.

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  • August 22, 2014
Meridian Development, Blue Vista buy, redeveloping Premier Corporate Center

A joint venture of Tampa-based Meridian Development Group and Chicago's Blue Vista Capital Management purchased the 145,957-square-foot Premier Corporate Center for $8.2 million.

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