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Industries

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 17, 2018
What They're Saying: Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield Executive Director Bruce Erhardt's most recent report on Tampa's commercial real estate market contends the current growth cycle, at least for land, shows no signs of waning.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 17, 2018
Priam Capital buys eight buildings in Tampa for $52 million

Priam Capital expands its geographic reach with the purchase of an eight-building office portfolio in Tampa's Sabal Park from IP Capital Partners in a deal brokered by Cushman & Wakefield

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 17, 2018
New Market acquires Naples center for $37.8 million

New Market Properties bought Shoppes at Neapolitan Way in Naples to augment its portfolio of 44 mainly grocery-anchored retail centers in seven states

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 17, 2018
Pair of Lakeland projects show strength of Polk County industrial market

New distribution center projects planned by Swedish furniture retailer Ikea and Dallas developer Xebec Holdings show that Lakeland and Polk County continues to be sought-after location for distributors.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Brian Hartz
  • August 10, 2018
Starry startup dreams big with contractual niche

CoLabs, a Tampa-based software incubator formed in December 2017, thinks it has found a better way for businesses to handle contracts. IntelAgree is the company’s debut software-as-a-service product

  • Technology
  • By Brian Hartz
  • August 10, 2018
Cybersecurity sector bear hugs Tampa region

With business and so many other aspects of our daily lives increasingly moving online and into the cloud, it’s never been a better time to be part of the cybersecurity industry. That’s especially true for companies and workers in the Tampa Bay region.

  • Technology
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 10, 2018
Casto Southeast Realty Services in a sweet spot with plethora of projects

Casto Southeast Realty Services has differentiated itself through mixed-use commercial real estate projects that require expertise in places like Tampa, Lakewood Ranch, Sarasota, Daytona, Clemson, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 10, 2018
Apollo Global buys Gulf Coast retail centers for $49 million

New York-based Apollo Global Management acquires a trio of shopping centers in Naples, Clearwater and Dunedin through a portfolio purchase from H&R REIT, of Canada.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 10, 2018
Bromley Cos. taps Cushman & Wakefield to lease Midtown Tampa office towers

Bromley Cos. hires Cushman & Wakefield to lease a trio of planned office buildings at 22-acre Midtown Tampa mixed-use development

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 10, 2018
New York firm buys a pair of Bonita Springs hotels

GDC Properties buys a pair of Hilton Hotel-flagged properties in Lee County, adding roughly 200 rooms to its portfolio .

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 10, 2018
Market Spotlight

The Pinellas County office market's vacancy rate and absorption levels have held steady against other submarkets, like Tampa, with healthy activity and rental rate growth throughout the county, and especially in places like downtown St. Petersburg

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • August 3, 2018
Marketing firm adds to clientele with new destination

St. Paradise Advertising & Marketing, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been named agency of record for the Ocala/Marion County Visitors and Convention Bureau.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 3, 2018
Sarasota-Bradenton International offering land for development

To ensure its future financial viability and be less reliant on passenger traffic, Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is offering 92 acres of land adjacent to its runways for development.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 3, 2018
Entrepreneur finds new life in handbag manufacturing startup

Former Philadelphia interior designer Gretchen Bauer recently embarked on an unusual mission: to manufacture high-end handbags. She's running the startup business in Sarasota.

  • Industries
  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 3, 2018
Cool Made: Florida manufacturers overcome obstacles

On both a national level and within Florida, manufacturing is on the rise — in multiple metrics. Manufacturers are making more stuff and using fewer people to do it. But if manufacturers had more people, they would be able to make more stuff. A trio of ar

  • Industries
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