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Industries

  • By Mark Gordon
  • January 3, 2020
Retail-focused developer returns to CEO role of prominent firm

Greg Sembler sees opportunity among the carnage ecommerce brought to retail.

  • Development
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 2, 2020
Top Deals 2019: Tampa Bay

Portfolio sales of the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay and an adjacent office building, downtown and Westshore offices and a pair of Brandon properties spur record transactional volume of nearly $837 million in 2019

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 2, 2020
Advertising firm goes wild with new contract

ZooTampa at Lowry Park has selected Paradise Advertising & Marketing Inc., based in St. Petersburg, Florida, as its agency of record.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Grier Ferguson
  • December 27, 2019
Area bank has big ambitions for expansion into new community

Crews Bank & Trust is planning a grand opening of its new branch in Sarasota on Jan. 2.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon
  • December 27, 2019
Firm targeting high-net-worth clientele finishes 2019 on a high note

Sarasota Private Trust aims to at least double assets under management in 2020.

  • Finance
  • By Brian Hartz
  • December 27, 2019
Shine bright: Patience has been a virtue for lighting technology firm

St. Petersburg, Florida, tech firm LumaStream has positioned itself as a visionary leader in power and light innovations.

  • Technology
  • By Grier Ferguson
  • December 27, 2019
National homebuilder makes big gains in area in past year

One upcoming challenge for M/I Homes in Sarasota and Manatee counties: keep finding land to grow even more.

  • Development
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 27, 2019
Apartment, office deals in near equilibrium

Overall sales volume decline in two Gulf Coast submarkets — Southwest Florida and Sarasota/Manatee counties — during 2019 was offset by strength in the Tampa Bay area.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 27, 2019
Top Deals 2019: Southwest Florida

Residential sales of apartments, a condominium tied to a resort and a mobile home and RV park dominated Southwest Florida's top commercial real estate sales in 2019.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 27, 2019
Top Deals: Sarasota/Manatee

Apartments edged other sectors in top transaction activity in Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2019 as investors clamored to lock in yields, even as overall dollar volume dropped from the year before in absence of a few high-profile deals such as the sale

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 20, 2019
SPP shifts offices back to Sparkman Wharf

Strategic Property Partners, the developer behind the Water Street Tampa project downtown, has moved into Sparkman Wharf, a building within the $3 billion development.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 20, 2019
Credit union gets bigger — and dismantles more of the community bank model

Suncoast Credit Union seized the buy-to-grow strategy when faced with a obstacle to its asset expansion.

  • Finance
  • By Brian Hartz
  • December 20, 2019
Steady presence: Bank sees big opportunity in upheaval

TD Bank looks to grow its presence in the Tampa Bay, Florida, region to capitalize on recent upheaval in the community banking sector.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon
  • December 20, 2019
Valley rally: Bank accelerates march into Florida

Valley National Bank’s CEO keeps one lesson learned close: Stay true to who you are.

  • Finance
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 20, 2019
New Commerce

Online shopping is changing the industrial real estate sector in Southwest Florida, and new projects are delivering.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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