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  • May 21, 2014
RN Cancer Guides joins incubator

The Wesley Chapel-based oncology nursing services company received funding from the Pasco Economic Development Council. to help it grow.

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  • May 21, 2014
Sarasota home sales hit 10-year record

Total number of closed transactions in the county is the best since April 2004.

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  • May 20, 2014
The Cove apartments sell for $53 million

Chicago-based The Laramar Group and Philadelphia-based Lubert-Adler Partners LP purchased the 689-unit South Tampa apartment through an online auction.

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  • May 20, 2014
Aircraft parts firm names new CFO

Honeycomb Company of America adds a former MarineMax exec to its leadership team.

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  • May 20, 2014
Hertz earnings delayed

Hertz missed the deadline to file its first-quarter earnings because of accounting issues and will report results nearly one month late.

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  • May 19, 2014
Producers shoot TV pilot

ITZ Studios will film a television pilot in Naples and Fort Myers in June with a crew of 50 people.

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  • May 19, 2014
United Insurance buying Jacksonville firm

The St. Petersburg-based residential property and casualty insurance company has offered to acquire Sunshine State Insurance Co.

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  • May 19, 2014
Expanding 'fowl' biz seeks $100K from Sarasota

Proposal, codenamed Project Fowl, is up for Sarasota County Commission vote.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • May 16, 2014
University starts building new residence hall

The University of Tampa will demolish the southern wing of the 28-year-old ResCom to make way for the new building.

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  • May 16, 2014
ALPS South restarts R&D

After winning a decade-long patent infringement case, the St. Pete company plans to kick-start its development of new products.

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  • May 16, 2014
Food purveyor boosts earnings

Fine foods distributor Innovative Food Holdings says sales and profits rose despite the bad weather in the first quarter.

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  • May 16, 2014
Tourism spending rises nearly 10% in Sarasota

Tourists spent nearly $322 million in the first three months of 2014.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • May 16, 2014
Naples a foodie paradise

Next time you're in Collier County, chew on this.

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  • May 16, 2014
Chinese investment group new landlord for Education Symposia building

An investment group from Shanghai, China, purchased a 12,196-square-foot single-tenant office building for $2.18 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 16, 2014
Group of Los Angeles investors buys Apartments at Oak Creek

A Los Angeles area investor group, led by Chaim Freeman of B.F. Management, purchased the 184-unit Apartments at Oak Creek in Clearwater for $13.4 million.

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