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Charlotte–Lee–Collier

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  • Denise Federer
  • March 27, 2025
Good leaders need emotional management skills, not just technical know-how

The key to emotional management is to show, above all else, courage.

  • Advice
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 26, 2025
5 years later, Gulf Coast executives look back at managing through COVID

On the anniversary of the COVID, several business leaders from a wide swath of fields discuss the decisions they made, their worries and their early response to the pandemic in 2020.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 25, 2025
Roofing company triples service tech team

Gulf Western Roofing says the staffing increase is needed to meet demand.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 24, 2025
$2.5M IRS fraud lands Cape Coral roofing company owner in prison

The owner and manager of Nastar Roofing in Lee County were sentenced to federal prison for not paying taxes on employee wages.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 24, 2025
Naples’ Hoffmann takes step to buy national newspaper chain

The Hoffmann Family of Cos. is already Lee's second largest shareholder and may take the company private.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 23, 2025
Maryland buyer pays $72M for housing near Florida Gulf Coast University

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an insurance company takes more space in Tampa, a Fort Myers company plans to build homes, and a major Sarasota project gets a big loan.

  • Florida
    By
  • Mark Gordon, Elizabeth King, Laura Lyon
  • March 21, 2025
Top 50 contractors from Polk to Collier County surpass $9B in annual revenue

The Business Observer's list of the largest contractors in the business.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 19, 2025
$45 million loan for Fort Myers industrial project

The Minneapolis developer will begin work on the 442,000-industrial park to begin next year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 19, 2025
Boston restaurant chain opens new Naples location

Kelly’s Roast Beef now has two restaurants in Naples with others on the Gulf Coast in development.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 17, 2025
Forever 21 to close 23 Florida stores — four in region

The fashion retailer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in six years and is selling off assets.

  • Florida
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • March 17, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

Collier deals — $45.1 million for rural land and $29.5 million for a mixed-use project — pace the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 16, 2025
National developer buys 17 acres in Sarasota for 336 apartments

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Brandon apartment complex sells for $76.25 million, a Fort Myers apartment community is almost complete, and a Naples retail property is back on the market.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • March 13, 2025
$1.1 billion project breaks ground at Fort Myers airport

The addition of Concourse E comes amid an increasing number of passengers at RSW.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 11, 2025
Charlotte County aviation training center on track for December finish

The nearly 20,000-square-foot center will prepare student for FAA mechanical license exams.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • March 10, 2025
Meet the Smiths: Fort Myers law firm adds partners to official name

Goldstein, Buckley, Cechman, Rice, Purtz, Smith & Smith handles personal injury cases.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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