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Charlotte–Lee–Collier

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  • Mark Gordon
  • July 7, 2024
Top 10 Business Observer stories of the first half of 2024

While some news is of closings and layoffs, people and companies in the region are also busy buying land, expanding and taking risks.

  • Florida
    By
  • Denise Federer
  • July 4, 2024
Enhance your company’s value by revisiting your core values

The principles that hold a company together should be active — not antiques.

  • Advice
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 3, 2024
Broker gets creative to sell $295 million Naples compound

Dawn McKenna says selling trophy properties, like the Naples estate and the "Home Alone" house, is a happy mix of art and science.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 2, 2024
Investor gets $40M loan to buy Fort Myers apartments

Berkadia arranged the five-year loan for the Boca Raton firm that bought the Brantley Pines apartments off of Cleveland Avenue.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
Waterfront Naples condo sells for $6M, beats building record by $1M

A condominium on “Millionaire’s Row” in Naples sold for almost $1 million more than what the buyer paid for it in 2022.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 1, 2024
Naples firm buys Michigan ferry company, increasing fleet to 46 ships

The family-owned conglomerate’s Michigan holdings now include more than 100 properties as well as docks, ships and newspapers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • July 1, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $22.1 million land deal in Manatee paces transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 30, 2024
Benderson buys Naples TJ Maxx, Walmart-anchored shopping center

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Lakeland credit union buys a Venice property, a Chicago developer opens one apartment complex and sells another in Tampa, and a health care company signs a $4 million lease in Port Charlotte.

  • Florida
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 30, 2024
Prominent Naples development exec named chamber chair

Barron Collier Cos. has been involved with the Greater Naples Chamber for nearly 50 years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 29, 2024
Neuroscience, spine doctors consolidate offices in new Naples center

NeuroScience and Spinal Associates has leased 20,000 square feet for a surgery and MRI center in second phase of the Southbrooke Medical Center.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 27, 2024
National private-style jet service adds Naples routes

Introductory one-way fares to the NYC area start at under $700.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 27, 2024
Naples couple builds $65M animal handling facility at JFK airport

The ARK at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City has handled all kinds of animals, from horses to snakes. Its success — including more than $7 million in annual revenue — stems from a determined and dogged Naples couple.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Beth Luberecki
  • June 25, 2024
Niche Fort Myers wrap packaging firm celebrates steady wins

The packaging executive at a family-run business with five decades of success says a key lesson along the way is simple yet can be scary at first: Over-communicate with customers, especially when things go south.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 24, 2024
Naples, developer settle lawsuit over luxury condo, retail development

The settlement calls for the developer to do away with underground parking that was a point of contention.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • June 24, 2024
16 Gulf Coast companies make Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2024 list

Companies from Tampa to Naples made the business magazine's list of the best employers in the country.

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