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  • 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.

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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.

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  • 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
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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 3, 2018
Margaritaville Holdings planning a pair of Gulf Coast hotels

Margaritaville Holdings unveils plans for new hotels in Fort Myers and Anna Maria Sound with TPI Hospitality and Floridays Development Co. as part of a major brand expansion nationwide.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 3, 2018
Highwoods Preserve building comes to market

Highwoods Properties offers its Highwoods Preserve I building for sale for $39.5 million amid plans for a pair of other office developments in the Tampa area.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 3, 2018
Alabama firm buys Fort Myers industrial asset

Spacebox entity acquires Fort Myers industrial property that had been home to FedEx and Sears, Roebuck in a deal brokered by Lee & Associates for self-storage facility on Colonial Boulevard

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 3, 2018
St. Pete Pier tenant roster came together in stages

Tenant roster that includes Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille and Teak at new St. Pete Pier came together in phases after blueprint by commercial real estate brokerage firm Colliers International.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz
  • August 3, 2018
Well built: Furniture maker overcomes, learns from adversity

Andrew Watson founded Built, a Tampa, Florida-based custom furniture maker, after dropping out of architectural school, but he has learned plenty on the job.

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