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Involving angels in education

Education technology is a hot sector.

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Real estate brokers get prickly for charity

Nobody likes a prick.

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Best sales team? Prove it

The Business Observer seeks to get the scoop on the best sales teams on the Gulf Coast for a future issue.

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Pine Tree Commercial Realty, partner buy South Pasadena Shopping Center

A joint venture of Northbrook-based Pine Tree Commercial Realty LLC and Chicago's Walton Street Capital purchased the 165,886-square-foot South Pasadena Shopping Center for $21.1 million.

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Bank CEO backs Cook's announcement

Trevor Burgess, CEO of St. Petersburg-based C1 Bank, has talked for years about how being an openly gay CEO of a publicly traded company — like he is — shouldn't matter.

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  • November 7, 2014
Investors, Australian trust buy Whitfield Industrial building

An investment group, led by Aran Dunlop, owner of Fort Myers-based Dunlop Capital LLC, purchased the 30,000-square-foot Luber Building for $950,000.

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  • November 7, 2014
Residential land prices cooling

Homebuilders scrambling to buy land for new residential communities drove land prices higher in Southwest Florida as the recovery took hold.

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  • November 6, 2014
Cott buying Atlanta bottled water firm

The beverage firm plans to purchase DS Services Holdings Inc.'s parent, DSS Group Inc., for $1.25 billion early next year.

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  • November 6, 2014
Physician group opens Lehigh Acres office

Physicians' Primary Care of Southwest Florida opened a new office in Lehigh Acres, the area east of Fort Myers.

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  • November 6, 2014
PGT feels good vibes from Wall Street

Quarterly earnings rose 19.2% at the impact resistant window and door firm.

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  • November 5, 2014
City Center sale includes $10M in intangibles

Alliance Partners HSP LLC acquired the office tower's real estate for $118 million plus another $10 million for equipment and leases.

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  • November 5, 2014
SRQ airport cleared for new takeoffs to D.C.

Flights to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport can takeoff from Rectrix.

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Sarasota bank eradicates problematic legacy loans

Sabal Palm Bank has been profitable every month in 2014.

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  • November 5, 2014
Naples finance chief sentenced

A judge sentenced the former controller of Vineyards Development Corp. in Naples to nine months in prison.

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  • November 4, 2014
Burger 21 expanding to the Windy City

Two McDonald's operators agree to bring the restaurant franchise to Rosemont, Ill., northwest of Chicago in the fall.

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