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  • May 30, 2014
Still in it after they win it

Winning the lottery, it turns out, isn't a ticket to the good life for many entrepreneurs.

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  • May 30, 2014
IPO market gets chilly

The once-hot IPO market could be cooling down, at least on the Gulf Coast.

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  • May 30, 2014
Investors buy Morgan House for new downtown restaurant

Joseph Florentine and Donald Tyree, the president and operations manager of Affordable Secure Insurance, purchased the 5,155-square-foot Morgan House Restaurant building for $825,000.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Mark Gordon
  • May 30, 2014
Delayed Recovery

The first three months of 2014 were solid, if not spectacular, for several commercial real estate brokers. But statistics show a widespread recovery remains elusive.

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  • Jean Gruss
  • May 30, 2014
A New Cycle

Commercial real estate firms position themselves to benefit as buildings fill with new tenants and rents rise. Commercial Property Southwest Florida, the Cushman & Wakefield office in Fort Myers, is boosting its ranks.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • May 30, 2014
No retirement for Reitmann

Michael Reitmann, the man who led the home building association in Lee County for 27 years, has come out of retirement to lead the organization that's been beset by staff resignations.

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  • May 30, 2014
Minnesota's Cortec Corp.opening plant in Sarasota

A company led by Boris Miksic, president and CEO of St. Paul, Minn.-based specialty chemical company Cortec Corp., purchased a 33,335-square-foot manufacturing facility in Parkland Centre for $1.4 million.

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  • May 30, 2014
Laramar Group, Lubert-Adler buy South Tampa's The Cove

Chicago's The Laramar Group and Philadelphia-based real estate investment company Lubert-Adler Partners LP purchased the 689-unit The Cove apartments for $53.03 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 30, 2014
Tampa's Metis Property Group buys Oakwood Village Apartments

Metis Property Group purchased the 120-unit Oakwood Village Apartments in Palmetto for $1.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 30, 2014
Carroll Organization, AIMS Real Estate pay $122.5M for West Park Village

A joint venture of Atlanta-based Carroll Organization and AIMS Real Estate, a business unit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, purchased the mixed-use West Park Village for $122.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 30, 2014
Tampa urologist buys building, plans cancer treatment center

Tampa urologist Dr. Malcolm Root of Florida Urology Partners LLP purchased a 4,416-square-foot medical office building for $1.3 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 30, 2014
Lee Memorial Hospital buys I-75 land for future expansion

Lee Memorial Hospital Inc. purchased about 14 acres of vacant land east of Ortiz Avenue and west of Scofield Street for $1.4 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • May 30, 2014
Business challenges familiar

Finding qualified employees and navigating government regulations rank among the top business challenges in Lee County.

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  • May 30, 2014
In Memoriam: Al Austin 1929-2014

Longtime area developer Dick Beard reminisces about Al Austin.

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  • May 29, 2014
Kleangas Energy buying Indiana company

The Tampa-based company wants to use Second Cycle Recycling to improve its energy pellet business.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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