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Industries

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 17, 2020
Benderson Development working with tenants

Benderson Development Co., one of the nation's largest retail landlords, is seeking “the best solution” on a case-by-case basis with lessees amid coronavirus crisis

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 17, 2020
Atlanta REIT buys Wesley Chapel apartments

Preferred Apartment Communities buys Altis Wiregrass Ranch two years after making loan for 392-unit complex, despite coronavirus pandemic

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Michael Saunders & Company
  • April 16, 2020
Q1 2020 State of the market/economy: Sarasota, Manatee, & Charlotte Counties

The effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the tri-county area commercial market remain unclear.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
Sponsored Content
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 14, 2020
Restaurateur details pandemic's toll, how he plans to stay in business

To help his company survive the COVID-19 pandemic, Richard Gonzmart, head of the Columbia Restaurant Group, isn't taking a salary and has given back his 2019 profit share.

  • Travel-Tourism
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 10, 2020
Back to the Future

Lincoln Property left Tampa two decades ago, after developing a series of signature buildings. Now, it's back.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Mark Gordon
  • April 10, 2020
Community banks seize opportunities to help desperate clients

Go behind the scenes of a massive mobilization of manpower inside some of the region’s community banks.

  • Finance
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 10, 2020
Biotech firm leases 60,000 square feet in Manatee County

Akron Biotechnology of Boca Raton will use stand-alone building to increase its cryo-related gene therapy manufacturing capacity.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 10, 2020
"The Bay" hits construction milestone

"The Bay, " a 53-acre, municipally owned waterfront tract just outside downtown Sarasota, is moving forward with its first construction projects.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 10, 2020
Co-Working in the age of coronavirus

Tampa-area’s largest collective work environments, Industrious and WeWork, remain open as other businesses shutter amid pandemic.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Brian Hartz
  • April 8, 2020
COVID-19 crisis: Insurers to the rescue?

Retired insurance industry executive Paul Karon thinks insurers could step up and save the economy from the ravages of the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Insurance
  • By Brian Hartz
  • April 8, 2020
Pandemic hasn't slowed insurer's growth path

Clearwater-based insurance company Ensurem continues to hire and grow amid the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Insurance
  • By Brian Hartz
  • April 8, 2020
Don't look now, but hurricane season is coming

Tampa property insurance firm HCI Group enacted its much-rehearsed crisis management plan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Insurance
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 3, 2020
Gulf Coast CRE firms shift to teleworking

Coronavirus prompts mandatory "work-from-home" strategies to limit the spread of the contagion

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 3, 2020
Landlords, tenants seek middle ground in complicated situation

Tenants, landlords and lenders are scrambling to evaluate -- and possibly renegotiate -- lease and mortgage commitments amid Covid-19 outbreak

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • April 3, 2020
Apartment development in the wake of crisis

Southwest Florida's foreclosure crisis of a decade ago left its mark and persuaded many to opt for apartment living

  • Commercial Real Estate
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