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  • March 28, 2024
Nonprofit with 100-year, $1 lease with city opens in Fort Myers

Valerie’s House raised $3 million to build and prepare the 7,000-square-foot center for children dealing with grief.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • March 28, 2024
Fort Myers airport scores four new nonstop routes

Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maine and New York are new to Breeze Airways from Southwest Florida International Airport.

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  • March 28, 2024
Disruptive apartment-like hospitality brand targets St. Pete

In the space between a hotel room and an apartment building lies a new brand: Mint House. Florida is a sizable growth opportunity, says its CEO.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • March 27, 2024
174 homes coming to famed Pinellas golf course and PGA stop

Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers is building homes and townhouses at Innisbrook Golf & Spa Resort.

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  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 27, 2024
St. Pete Pier restaurant names familiar face as new top chef

Teak restaurant, located on the St. Pete Pier, has promoted Felicia Lacalle to executive chef after a year working as executive sous chef.

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  • By Mark Gordon
  • March 27, 2024
Alamo Drafthouse looks to hire 45 people for new Naples location

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is scheduled to open in the spring, in the high-end Mercato shopping center.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • March 27, 2024
Broker reflects on the conservation conversation that changed Florida

Dean Saunders' work on conservation easements has preserved hundreds of thousands of acres across Florida by bringing businesses and environmentalists together.

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  • March 26, 2024
Lennar readies Pinellas townhouse community for sale

National homebuilder Lennar has commenced sales at Townes at Bayou Heights, a Pinellas Park gated community of 32 townhouses.

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  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 26, 2024
Study: Money really does buys happiness in Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay and Miami made the list of best places in the country for retail therapy.

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  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 26, 2024
Tampa International Airport adds nonstop routes to Maine, Pensacola

Low-cost air carrier Breeze Airways is adding new service from Tampa International Airport to Pensacola and Bangor, Maine.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • March 26, 2024
Former Daiquiri Deck co-owner opens upscale sports bars in Manatee County

The Greyson in Lakewood Ranch offers wall-to-wall TVs, later hours and food from scratch. It's the second of what could be five locations in the region.

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  • By Jim Stinson
  • March 26, 2024
Headhunting firms project a surge in promotions and new business

Companies in industries from financial services to supply chain and technology to engineering are in need of executives and leaders across Tampa Bay. That means search firms are busy.

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  • March 25, 2024
Average airfares drop in Tampa Bay, rise slightly at Sarasota-Bradenton

The price of getting somewhere via a plane is going up nationally.

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  • March 25, 2024
New retailers coming to Coconut Point mall

The Lee County open-air mall announced five new stores have joined its roster. Two, including Barnes & Noble, have already opened for business.

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  • By Mark Gordon
  • March 25, 2024
Bradenton sustainable builder makes magazine's global innovation list

Pearl Homes, working on several environmentally friendly real estate and development projects, has been named to Fast Company magazine’s 2024 World’s Most Innovative Companies list.

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