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Report: Florida rated among top 5 in the country for business investment

The ranking was established by multiple factors in the state's favor.

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  • April 13, 2025
Sarasota church sells property to charter school developer for $3.5M

In the week's top commercial real estate news a New York scent company's building is completed in Lakeland, a restaurant chain is expanding into Naples and developers, commissioners agree in Sarasota.

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  • April 10, 2025
As hurricanes get stronger, so must area structures

Architects, engineers and builders agree that the construction of new structures needs to focus heavily on materials and techniques steeped in resiliency.

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  • April 8, 2025
Big Lots to reopen a dozen stores in Florida

A discount retailer says 219 Big Lots stores it bought this year will start reopening April 10.

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  • April 7, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

$16 million Polk County land sales pace transactions.

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  • April 6, 2025
Lee County pays $10.5 million to conserve 132 acres

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Fort Myers land sold to medical provider, Brandon gets Scandinavia furniture retailer's first Florida store, and a much-anticipated Sarasota project officially starts.

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  • April 3, 2025
30 companies in region ranked among fastest-growing in Southeast

A Bradenton firm was No. 2 on the 2025 Inc. Regionals list for the fastest-growing companies in the Southeast, and dozens in the region made the cut as well.

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  • March 31, 2025
Report: 4 regional markets among top 10 nationally in real estate price drops

Tampa is third on the highest risk of price decline list from property data analytics firm Cotality.

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  • March 31, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $145 million office building sale in Tampa paces the week in transactions.

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  • March 30, 2025
Goodwill retail store to be built on Ruskin site that sold for $2.6M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a downtown Sarasota building is up for sale, Pasco is getting a $200 million baked goods building, and a Fort Myers furniture store is listed.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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