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  • By Beth Luberecki
  • March 5, 2025
$5B trust company celebrates low turnover

A trust company with clients throughout the region has built a model of longevity — in clients and employees — by starting with a core principle: Always do the right thing.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 4, 2025
Local closures expected as Advance Auto, Red Robin shutter stores

The retailer and restaurant chains, joining a growing number of chains that are trimming store counts across the country and region, have said they plan to close locations.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 4, 2025
Naples developer pays $26M for downtown Sarasota sites

The Lutgert Cos. has built more than a dozen projects in Naples.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • March 4, 2025
Manatee County reconsiders buying shuttered fruit farm appraised at $16M

The property could become a county complex that includes a library, park and community center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 4, 2025
$150M Sarasota real estate firm merges with global agency

Living Vogue Real Estate has become part of eXp Realty.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 3, 2025
Los Angeles wellness chain coming to prime Tampa development

Local franchisees are opening a Pause Studio location in late March at Midtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 3, 2025
Boutique luxury home community coming to west Bradenton

Home prices at Tideline start at more than $980,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 3, 2025
Large Tampa office complex lands major tenant, nears full occupancy

The new tenant is expanding into three buildings on campus.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 3, 2025
Goodwill Manasota opens new donation center in Lakewood Ranch

The Goodwill donation center is in a “prime position,” according to the nonprofit’s senior director of real estate.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 3, 2025
Charlotte County hospital sells for $260 million, renamed

The purchase includes the land for ShorePoint Health Punta Gorda, a local hospital that closed year after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 3, 2025
'Two-tour' FL senator begins next chapter: CEO of $300M family office

Former politician Tom Lee has gone from homebuilding to wealth building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Steven Benna
  • March 3, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

FPL's acquisition of land in Collier County for $23.43 million paces the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 2, 2025
Lee County hospital sells for $32M to Nashville health care group

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a refurbished Hilton opens in Fort Myers, a Tampa retailer built on controversial property sells, and more homes coming to North Port.

  • Florida
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 1, 2025
Pinellas Transit announces new shuttle service to Clearwater Beach

The route, geared toward tourists, begins at the PIE airport.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • February 28, 2025
Tampa hospital closing, laying off 143 workers

Kindred Hospital will be closing at the end of April, according to a letter filed with the state.

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