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Entrepreneurs

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  • February 20, 2004
Waterfront Harvesters

Mark Miller and Terry Conti's Waterside Investment Group Inc. has grown, in less than five years, to more than $100 million worth of high-end residential construction.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Demand Outpaces Supply

With less high-producing commercial property available, Realtors must compete in a seller's market.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Productivity Inches Up

Productivity in the U.S. is five times that of Germany's. In the third quarter, U.S. productivity rose 5% over the same three months of 2002.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
NAIOP Seeks Sales Tax Parity

Chuck Carver, a Tampa real estate attorney traveles to the nation's Capitol with a local delegation to express his concerns over unequity in sales tax collection to Florida's congressional leaders.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Taxing Issues

Florida bankers have a wish list for the upcoming legislative session, but one lobbyist doesn't expect action against credit unions.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Bush: Another 2.6 Million Jobs in 2004

The U.S. economy will create about 2.6 million new jobs in 2004 and unemployment will decline over the next several years, according to President George W. Bush's annual economic report.U.S. non-farm payrolls will rise to 132.7 million through this year

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Wal-Mart's Mexico Success

Mexico's largest private employer - Wal-Mart - is given credit for reducing the country's inflation rate. Its rivals are unhappy.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Squeezing Argentina

Kenneth Dart, the former Sarasotan, is hoping to squeeze Argentina to pay him the full amount on its debt - even though he bought it at a discount.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Unaffordable Housing

Why there's a shortage of affordable housing and how to end it.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 13, 2004
Indelible Impression

Cody Fowler Davis walks in big footsteps - those left by his grandfather, Cody Fowler, one of the founders of Tampa's Fowler White law firm.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 6, 2004
'Bring Life to the Streets'

When four-year plans to develop condominiums next to the Quay didn't materialize, Irish developer Paddy Kelly decided to get involved.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 6, 2004
Knight In Shining Armor

Richard A. Harrison has faced harassment and threats of being sued as a governmental attorney on controversial issues in the Tampa Bay area.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 6, 2004
Repeat Performance?

Coast Bank of Florida stumbled in 2003 after going public, a familiar situation for founder Gerald L. Anthony.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 6, 2004
Collier, Lee Lead; Pinellas Stagnant

In Fishkind & Associates' newest 2004 forecast, the region's two southernmost counties will top the population growth charts again. Pinellas and Sarasota are growing at the slowest rates.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 6, 2004
Indonesia's Legal Labyrinth

Bloomberg News ServiceSINGAPORE - Satrya Wijaya Teja, a Jakarta-based lawyer for two U.S. hedge funds, took a business trip in October that included a six-hour boat ride through forests and a night on the floor of a local mosque.

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