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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • July 12, 2019
In Focus: Naples office market

The Naples office market remains healthy and above historical averages in many metrics, despite slowing that has occurred in the past year in activity.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Adrian Moore
  • July 5, 2019
Florida's job licensing decreases motivation instead of increasing quality

State legislators have again failed to tackle reforming Florida's occupational licensing requirements

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • July 5, 2019
Naples Beach Hotel prepares for its next chapter

The Athens Group, a Phoenix-based real estate developer specializing in luxury hotels, is buying the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club to redevelop it with a luxury hotel and residences beginning in 2021.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • July 5, 2019
q&a: Mike Griffin

Mike Griffin, who has been promoted to lead commercial real estate brokerage firm Savills' Tampa office, intends to grow the firm's presence in the region through recruitment and technology.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • July 5, 2019
Florida remains a hotspot for CRE development

In an annual report, the NAIOP Research Foundation finds that Florida ranked fifth in the nation in 2018 for overall commercial real estate development.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • July 5, 2019
Eastdil Secured to focus on Southeast, Southwest post buyout

Once it splits from Wells Fargo & Co., as is expected later this year, commercial real estate brokerage firm and mortgage originator Eastdil Secured intends to focus on the Southeastern and Southwestern parts of the U.S. for business.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • July 5, 2019
100 N. Tampa St. pulled from the market

PGIM Real Estate has pulled the 42-story 100 N. Tampa office tower from the market. The new Jersey company had offered it for sale earlier this year for more than $200 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz
  • July 5, 2019
Firm aims to grab market share behind new software patents

Sara Moola has never served in the military, but a new product made by her company, Tampa-based Visual Awareness Technologies & Consulting, could improve the effectiveness of U.S. armed forces around the world.

  • Technology
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  • By Grier Ferguson
  • June 28, 2019
Former skating rink presents unique commercial real estate challenge

To find the ideal tenant for the former Stardust Skate Center, Loyd Robbins is using direct marketing  — and keeping an open mind in terms of unforeseen possibilities.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 28, 2019
CRE brokers are on the move in Tampa

Commercial real estate brokerage firms are breaking with tradition and offering top agents financial incentives and better opportunities to convince them to switch alliances.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 28, 2019
Blackstone Group mega deal to ripple through Gulf Coast

Blackstone Group's $18.7 billion acquisition of GLP US assets, including buildings in Tampa and Lakeland, highlights how the industrial real estate business has gravitated more toward distribution than warehousing.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 28, 2019
Richman Group to develop Naples multifamily project

Richman Group, the nation's seventh-largest apartment developer, has acquired land in Naples known as Magnolia Pond to develop up to 434 apartments in a deal brokered by SVN Lotus and SVN KONA.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 28, 2019
Investcorp buys apartments in Plant City, Winter Haven

Investcorp has purchased apartment complexes in Plant City and Winter Haven as part of a $370 million portfolio deal with Equus Capital Partners.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • June 28, 2019
Farley White reaffirms CBRE at Fifth Third Center

Farley White Interests has reaffirmed its commitment to CBRE Group as the leasing firm for its 19-story Fifth Third Center office building at 201 E. Kennedy Blvd. in downtown Tampa amid $3 million in renovations. to the building.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • June 28, 2019
Taxing decision results in win for transportation

A Hillsborough County, Florida, judge recently upheld a voter-approved 1-cent sales tax for transportation and transit improvements, where County Commissioner Stacy White had challenged the legality of the money distribution process.

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