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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • September 1, 2017
Home Sweet Homee

A home repair need led to a new smartphone app. Now software entrepreneur Doug Schaedler targets a national business.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 1, 2017
Palmer to lead Florida CCIM in 2018

LandQwest Commercial Principal and Managing Director Adam Palmer has been named president of the Florida chapter of the CCIM Institute beginning in January.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 1, 2017
BayCare buys Gulf Coast offices

BayCare Health System has spent more than $88 million this summer to acquire four office buildings throughout the Tampa Bay area it occupies, property records show.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 1, 2017
Doubling down

Publix Super Markets has bought dozens of its stores in recent years, while looking for 'the next big thing.'

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jean Gruss
  • September 1, 2017
Global Ambition

NeoGenomics aims to be the world's leading cancer-testing company. It's starting with its first laboratory outside the U.S. — in Switzerland.

  • Health Care
  • By Grier Ferguson
  • September 1, 2017
Cool construction

Goldstein Library in Sarasota

  • Strategies
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 1, 2017
Kast, Kolter cement bond at The Mark

When Kast Construction starts work this summer in downtown Sarasota on The Mark, a mixed-use project slated to contain 157 residences, retail and office space, it will mark the 25th project the firm has built on behalf of developer The Kolter Group.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 1, 2017
Former hospital site hits market for $10 million

A portion of the former Doctors Hospital site in Sarasota has come on the market for $10 million, one of the largest Gulf Coast listings currently in the CoStar Group's online database.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • September 1, 2017
Be cool

StratTech lands Gartner designation

  • News
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 25, 2017
SVN teams with Kova Cos.

Brokerage firm SVN Florida, the former Sperry Van Ness, has teamed up with Naples-based Kova Cos. to form a new commercial real estate company.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 25, 2017
BTI unveils plans for 16-story condo

BTI Partners has unveiled plans to develop a 16-story condominium tower within its 52-acre Westshore Marina District project in South Tampa.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 25, 2017
In the Zone

Industrial space in the Interstate 4 corridor is in high demand — and may continue to be for the foreseeable future.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Ted Carter
  • August 25, 2017
Real growth

Premiere Plus Realty, behind an unusual commission model, is pushing toward new goals.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Beth Luberecki
  • August 25, 2017
Wheel and Deal

Rodney Dessberg often goes against market conventions — with a high degree of success. What's his formula?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • August 25, 2017
Spec Down South

A Baltimore developer intends to deliver one of the only new speculative industrial projects in Lee County since 2008.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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