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Flying High

County auditors are questioning the return Pinellas taxpayers are getting on economic development money spent on airline ads and social functions.

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Executive Session with Tom Dowdy

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Affordable and Profitable

Harvey Vengroff and partners are addressing the affordable housing shortage through private enterprise. Everybody wins - investors, VWA employees and the neighborhoods.

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Out on a Limb

Marketing institutional-grade properties to high net-worth investors is tricky business. The Tampa office of CB Richard Ellis has found a way to do it.

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Crisis Management 101

Eleven months after Florida's nightmarish hurricane season, roofers are still stressed. Here's how four company leaders managed in the eye of the storms.

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Rapid Escalation

Condo developer demand for industrial-warehouse land in Tampa's Channel District is pushing prices beyond $100 a square foot.

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Hot Streak

Williams Parker's Morgan Bentley was on the victorious side of two legal precedents in one week this month. One was a $16 million judgment for FCCI.

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Executive Session with Jimmy Stewart

The Gulf Coast Business Review sat down with the new director of Business Development / Westwater Construction Inc.

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Siren Song

After blowing the whistle in the 1990s on his competitors and city officials, Frank Griswoldthought he'd finally gotten his chance in Tampa's ambulance industry. He was wrong.

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Urban Oasis

It took creative deal making, but EcoGroup's New Port Tampa project appears poised to produce lucrative returns.

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First Quarter Blitz

Gulf Coast banks and thrifts grew substantially during the first three months of this year. Many profited from that growth.

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