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  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 12, 2024
Tampa health tech company with virtual walk-in care names new CEO

Tampa-based OnMed has made Karthik Ganesh its new CEO.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 12, 2024
Tampa Premium Outlets adds 9 new tenants, a 10th on the way

The Simon Property Group-owned shopping center off of Interstate 75 in Pasco County continues to add to its retail roster as the area grows.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • March 12, 2024
Leading SWFL real estate brokerage names new president

Longtime John R. Wood Christie’s International Real Estate broker and executive Corey McCloskey has been named president of the firm.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 12, 2024
Lawyers vs. bankers fight over legal aid funding dies in Legislature

A pair of bills would have addressed a rule change that forced banks to pay higher interest payments for certain accounts.

  • Florida
  • By Beth Luberecki
  • March 12, 2024
Restaurant marketing exec tackles new side hustle: Children’s book author

Longtime hospitality business ad man Kevin Rooney, in writing a children’s book, takes a bite out of new market, with new challenges and opportunities.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 11, 2024
New Feeding Tampa Bay facility complete after $60M capital raise

The builder behind the 210,000-square-foot project says its work has finished and that the new headquarters and distribution center will open in May.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 11, 2024
Bitcoin-mining company shares surge 30%, but firm remains below Nasdaq rule

LM Funding America, a Tampa-based bitcoin-mining company, offered a 1-for-6 reverse stock split of outstanding common stock.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 11, 2024
Tampa law firm names first female managing partner in 45 years

Denise Anderson has been with Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig for 28 years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jay Heater
  • March 11, 2024
Virginia golf company buys landmark Manatee County country club

The new owner plans improvements to all three courses at Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club and intends to retain many of the club's staff members.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Steven Benna
  • March 11, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $33 million vacant land deal in Lee County highlights transactions for the week of Jan 29.

  • Transactions
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 11, 2024
Live Local Act tweaks win support of all but one legislator

The bill is aimed, in part, at easing worries from localities that were created when the $711 million affordable housing bill passed last year.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 10, 2024
Investors pay $3 million for seven downtown Bradenton properties

In the week's top commercial real estate news, newcomers commit to longer leases in Tampa, and $400 million in sales triggers new tower along Estero Bay.

  • Florida
  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 9, 2024
Longtime Pinellas County mental health agency CEO retires

Barbara Daire, the CEO of Suncoast Center, will retire after a career of 44 years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 8, 2024
536 Tampa jobs cut after IT company loses $2.8B contract at MacDill

Dallas-based Jacobs Technology believes the laid-off employees at MacDill Air Force Base may get to keep their jobs with the suburban Washington, D.C., firm that won the contract.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • March 8, 2024
National law firm woos attorney for high-ranking role in Naples office

John Wood has worked in the U.S. Southwest, and in Southwest Florida.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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