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Industries

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 17, 2021
Ronto Group adds to Lido Beach site

Naples firm Ronto Group buys Coquina on the Beach hotel as part of a plan to develop a five-star, hotel-branded condominium on Sarasota's Lido Beach.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 17, 2021
Taking the cryptic out of cryptocurrency: Embracing digital money

The economy is increasingly becoming more digitized — and cryptocurrency leads the charge. For the businesses and entrepreneurs first in line, there could be some rich rewards.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon
  • June 17, 2021
Mother-son duo conquer Wall Street trend — from Sarasota

Betsy Cohen and her son Daniel, despite living 1,200 miles from Wall Street, are SPAC leaders.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon
  • June 17, 2021
Restaurant-focused tech company targets a smorgasbord of opportunities

Omnivore capitalizes on several trends with one main target: a bigger piece of market share.

  • Travel-Tourism
  • By Mark Gordon
  • June 13, 2021
$300 million construction firm builds smooth succession plan

A nice dinner out paved the way for Owen-Ames-Kimball to formulate ideas for top executives to exit the firm gracefully.

  • Development
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 11, 2021
At the Apex

Land Advisors Organization Tampa Managing Broker Nancy Surak has developed into one of the top land-focused real estate brokers in the region — and nationally.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 10, 2021
Ybor City ad agency finds being ready is what it takes to make it for more than 40 years

Tampa ad agency ChappellRoberts survived the pandemic and is now welcoming a new generation of leadership. One core attribute? It always looks forward.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 10, 2021
Commercial real estate industry optimism on the rise

Surveys from a trio of prominent industry groups -- Urban Land Institute, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and NAIOP -- predict a surge in activity for balance of this year and 2022.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 10, 2021
Oak Street adds to regional Walgreens portfolio

Chicago investment firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital acquires handful of drugstores along Gulf Coast, its second foray into the retail net-lease sector in the region this year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 8, 2021
Hope Preserve gains traction

Health care-centric, mixed-use development in Fort Myers completes a trio of land sales involving more than one quarter of its 46 acres.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 3, 2021
Federal officials seize more than $1 million in dietary supplements from manufacturer

Seizure leads to at least 30 job cuts at Premier Manufacturing.

  • Law
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 3, 2021
From home improvement to home building, shortages causing major delays — and cancellations — for builders and contractors

Rising costs and material shortages put the construction and homebuilding industries in peril — while the economy wobbles.

  • Development
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 3, 2021
Health care double down

Sila Realty Trust’s plan to shed its portfolio of data centers will further focus the Tampa company and better position it for its future goal.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 3, 2021
Pair of investments total $53.65 million

Lakewood Ranch office building, Tampa industrial asset sales for $53 million signal that investors are looking post-COVID-19.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 27, 2021
Bank on environmental mission names two new senior executives

Chris Van Buskirk and Marcio deOliveira have gone to work at Climate First Bank ahead of its June 1 opening in downtown St. Petersburg.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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