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Entrepreneurs

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  • Janelle Makowski
  • January 16, 2004
Florida's Largest Private Landholder

St. Joe Co. sees record earnings and profits as it develops North Florida. But environmentalists want to slow it down.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
More than Mortgages

Developer. Mortgage broker. Real estate broker. There's no pigeon holing Sarasota's Horizon Mortgage Corp.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
No Sale

A recent SEC filing explains why F.N.B. Corp. decided it had to split in two.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Largest Jury Verdicts

Juries, upset over corporate scandals such as Enron, awarded $13.8 billion for fraud in 2003.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Who Owns This Gem?

When Shannon Hotel Group acquired the Longboat Key Club, it had the help of some of Wall Street's savviest and most endowed investors. Meet the owners.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Trailer Lawyer

Forget visions of a lawyer in cheap suits glad handing trailer park owners selling decrepit metal boxes on wheels. St. Petersburg attorney David Bernstein handles multimillion-dollar mobile home park transactions.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Break Up

Zirkelbach Construction and Frye General Contracting split up after only months together.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2004
Big Man Off Campus

Former USF professor Clifford M. Gross wants to see that more federally funded research gets spun into moneymaking technology.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2004
The Keys to Longboat

The Longboat Key Club's owners want to add new development to some of their property. Have the townfolk put aside past differences?

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2004
New on the Block

Established Atlanta developer JEBCO Ventures Inc. tackles Sarasota development.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2004
Maggi the Contrarian

Julio Maggi will have ample opportunity to tackle tough issues as the 2004 president of the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Association of Industrial Office Properties.

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  • Janelle Makowski
  • January 9, 2004
Fun Again

Merger and acquisition activity picked up in 2003 after a bad year in 2002. Some predict 2004 will be even better.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2004
ALYSSA M. SELLS

Partner Law office of Edwards & SellsBusiness Profile: Sells' practice focuses on real property issues. On the litigation side, she represents property owners throughout Florida in landlord/tenant matters

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 2, 2004
Fast Start

Building the asset base of a new community bank while sustaining profitability is easier said than done.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 2, 2004
Building Progress

Hillsborough County leads the Gulf Coast region with 61 developments of regional impact.

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