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Industries

  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 6, 2024
2 dog bars in region on USA Today’s 10 best list for 2024

St. Petersburg and Sarasota are home to two of the best dog bars in the country, according to USA Today.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • July 5, 2024
South Carolina hospitality group brings pair of restaurants to Tampa

Two new restaurants are slated to begin serving in 2024 and 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • July 4, 2024
Clearwater construction firm expands its services to plumbing

Home Love Construction, a Clearwater-based firm founded in 2017, is expanding another arm of its business to an adjacent field in the home services industry.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Denise Federer
  • July 4, 2024
Enhance your company’s value by revisiting your core values

The principles that hold a company together should be active — not antiques.

  • Advice
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 3, 2024
Food service vendor loses contract at SRQ airport, cuts nearly 100 jobs

New concessions and shops, with several local brands among them, are coming soon to the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 3, 2024
Broker gets creative to sell $295 million Naples compound

Dawn McKenna says selling trophy properties, like the Naples estate and the "Home Alone" house, is a happy mix of art and science.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 2, 2024
Investor gets $40M loan to buy Fort Myers apartments

Berkadia arranged the five-year loan for the Boca Raton firm that bought the Brantley Pines apartments off of Cleveland Avenue.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Laura Lyon
  • July 2, 2024
Aeromexico celebrates new flight service at TPA

Aeromexico is the first airline to offer service to Mexico City from TPA in three decades.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 2, 2024
With skin in the game, entrepreneur looks to expand product line

Jackie Rogers, who had careers in a variety of industries, takes an opportunistic approach to her latest venture: skincare.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
Waterfront Naples condo sells for $6M, beats building record by $1M

A condominium on “Millionaire’s Row” in Naples sold for almost $1 million more than what the buyer paid for it in 2022.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
$15M freestanding emergency room opens in north Manatee

HCA Florida Palmetto Emergency is affiliated with HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton and is expected to have 26 full-time employees.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • July 1, 2024
Longtime popular family-owned deli sold in Tampa

Wright's Gourmet House is officially property of Caspers Co., a Tampa-based hospitality business that was previously a large McDonald's franchisee.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 1, 2024
Naples firm buys Michigan ferry company, increasing fleet to 46 ships

The family-owned conglomerate’s Michigan holdings now include more than 100 properties as well as docks, ships and newspapers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 1, 2024
Sarasota biotech firm develops new prototype for treating concussions

Oragenics aims to help the millions of people who suffer concussions and lose consciousness.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Steven Benna
  • July 1, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $22.1 million land deal in Manatee paces transactions.

  • Transactions
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