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Industries

  • By Andrew Warfield
  • November 30, 2018
Developer builds centers of attention

Retail center developer S.J. Collins seeks to enhance communities with purposeful design and mix of tenants. Daniels Marketplace in Fort Myers is its latest example.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • November 23, 2018
Cold war technology rockets fintech firm to global dominance

ACI Worldwide’s technology began as a solution to prevent an accidental nuclear missile launch. Now the firm aims to prevent competitors from creeping into its space.

  • Finance
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 23, 2018
St. Petersburg firm buys Oldsmar Flea Market

A St. Petersburg firm backed by investot Grady Pridgen has acquired the Oldsmar Flea Market, one of the area's oldest and most popular flea market sites along the Gulf Coast

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 23, 2018
Pattillo leaving CBRE Group at year's end

Chase Pattillo is leaving CBRE Group, where he has worked as Market Leader since mid-2014, to pursue specialty real estate niches like senior housing and how technology interfaces with real estate

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 23, 2018
Key International buys dual-branded hotel in Clearwater

Key International Inc. has purchased a dual-branded hotel on the water in Clearwater for $71 million, where it plans a series of upgrades to the property that was completed last year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 23, 2018
Auteur developer believes new Sarasota condo project will be a work of art

The development team behind the planned 18-story Auteur condo in Sarasota believes that its project will succeed despite heightened competition and macro-economic forces thanks to its water-view location and unique design and amenities

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 23, 2018
Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Ralston Dantzler is a triple threat in Polk County

Thanks to the individual strengths of its three principals, Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Ralston Dantzler has grown into one of Polk County's most respected commercial real estate brokerage firms.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Brian Hartz
  • November 16, 2018
Economic forecast: Laura Webb, president, Webb Insurance Group, Tampa

Laura Webb, president of Webb Insurance Group in Tampa, Florida, looks ahead to 2019 and sees significant growth on the horizon.

  • Insurance
  • By Brian Hartz
  • November 16, 2018
Economic forecast: Marie Tomassi, managing shareholder, Trenam Law, Tampa/St. Petersburg

Marie Tomassi, managing shareholder of Trenam Law in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, looks ahead to 2019 and sees the firm expanding into new practice areas like solar energy and possibly medical marijuana.

  • Law
  • By Brian Hartz
  • November 16, 2018
Economic forecast: James Ramos, founder and CEO, Ramos Companies, Tampa

James Ramos, founder and CEO of Ramos Companies in Tampa, Florida, predicts the state of the local economy in 2019.

  • Construction-Development
  • By Brian Hartz
  • November 16, 2018
Economic forecast: Judah Longgrear, founder and CEO, The Nickel Ride

Judah Longgrear, founder and CEO of the The Nickel Ride, has seen big growth for the company in St. Petersburg, Florida, and looks ahead to expanding to Naples and Dunedin.

  • Travel-Tourism
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 16, 2018
Good Times For Now, Part II

Tampa Bay's building permits have held steady and increased, for the most part, in the six counties surrounding the city over the past year, but macro-economic influences could lead developers and builders to make changes in density and architecture in th

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 16, 2018
Riverwalk Place nixes office space for additional condos

Riverwalk Place developers Feldman Equities Ltd and Two Roads Development scrap plans for 200,000 square feet of office space in their planned 53-story tower in downtown Tampa in favor of building roughly 90 more condo units, to a total of 290.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 16, 2018
Saunders' Drews leaving for development post at Casto

Matt Drews, Michael Saunders & Co.'s commercial brokerage manager since September 2015, plans to leave the company to take a job in development at Casto Southeast Realty Services

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 16, 2018
The road to a new warehouse was long and winding

Maintenance Too Paper Co.'s John Hargreaves' plan to move into a bigger building in Bradenton took more than three years and a lot of heartbreak.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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