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Florida

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  • Jim Stinson
  • August 31, 2023
Study: Tampa, Naples homes selling under list prices

Despite talk of growing costs in Florida, the Sunshine State has many city areas in which homes are sold under list prices.

  • Florida
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 31, 2023
Las Vegas cannabis company pays $49M for Florida dispensaries

Planet 13's purchase of VidaCann, which has a large Gulf Coast presence, gives it an immediate foot print and the infrastructure to double its Florida store count quickly.

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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 30, 2023
As property premiums rise, should state-run Citizens be charging more?

There is a school of thought that Citizens Property Insurance Corp. should, like its counterpart in Louisiana, raise its premiums.

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  • Amanda Postma
  • August 29, 2023
Grocery stores close ahead of Hurricane Idalia's arrival

Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie and Aldi all have stores closing early.

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  • August 29, 2023
U-Haul offers free storage at 54 facilities in response to hurricane

As Hurricane Idalia approaches Florida, U-Haul offers storage options throughout several regions.

  • Florida
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  • Amanda Postma
  • August 28, 2023
Ports operating under restricted traffic condition

Inbound vessel traffic has ceased for all ports in the area as Tropical Storm Idalia draws near.

  • Florida
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  • Jim Stinson
  • August 28, 2023
SRQ, TPA reopen Wednesday post-Idalia

As TPA and PIE monitor the approaching storm, they decide to close Tuesday.

  • Florida
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  • Amanda Postma, Jim Stinson
  • August 28, 2023
Area electric utility companies restoring power after Idalia makes landfall

More than 16,000 Florida Power and Light customers are currently without power.

  • Florida
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  • Steven Benna
  • August 28, 2023
Top commercial real estate transactions for Aug. 8-14 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Tampa apartment complex selling for $87.5 million highlights the week's transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 27, 2023
$19.8 million price drop for 5,500-acre Collier property

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a manufacturing facility is being built in Tampa, a Fort Myers supplier sells its property and moves, and a Bradenton office building sells.

  • Florida
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 22, 2023
Logistics company increases number of Tampa layoffs eightfold

Companies have posted 1,470 layoffs to Florida’s jobs database since Aug. 14, a potential sign of trouble for the state’s economy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Mark Gordon
  • August 22, 2023
Entrepreneur: America is in peril if we don’t get more entrepreneurs

"Entrepreneurship is often, if not always, humbling," says business owner Tra Williams. But the alternative — working for someone else — is worse.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 21, 2023
Trucking company bankruptcy costs state 524 jobs, 116 locally

The most recent slate of job cuts brings the number of layoffs announced across the region in the past week to more than 400.

  • Florida
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  • Steven Benna
  • August 21, 2023
Top commercial real estate transactions for Aug. 1-7 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

Naples land deals worth more than $28 million highlight the week's transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 20, 2023
Gym buildings sale brings $94M, Pasco and Hillsborough locations included

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a local Manatee developer keeps growing, a popular restaurant chain — finally — opens in Estero and a New York power company leases space in Ybor City.

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