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  • October 27, 2017
Doing Well

An $83 million organization, facing competitive threats and regulatory uncertainty, fights forward. Its goal: Get bigger and get better.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 27, 2017
Hitting the Gas

Following a secretive search process, a new Hillsborough plant will create 350 jobs and occupy a spec industrial building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Grier Ferguson
  • October 27, 2017
On the Move

With a counterintuitive mindset, developer Steve Bradley often looks beyond the bottom line. He's confident his latest move will work out.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 27, 2017
CBRE tapped for Fifth Third Center

In the wake of its estimated $52.5 million acquisition of Fifth Third Center, in Tampa, Farley White Interests has tapped CBRE Group to lease the 19-story building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 27, 2017
Stock selling its Spectra apartments

Naples-based Stock Development has hired commercial real estate commercial firm Cushman & Wakefield to sell its recently completed Spectra apartments community in Fort Myers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • October 27, 2017
Lots of land

With a strong history behind him, John Neal is in a land acquisition groove. Where will he take the business next?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 27, 2017
Publix replacing store in St. Pete

It's not the years, it's the mileage, as Indiana Jones once famously opined. Well, sometimes it's the years, too.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 20, 2017
MLG Capital buys Breckenridge portfolio

A Brookfield, Wis.-based investment firm has acquired 15 buildings within Tampa's Breckenridge Business Park for $22.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 20, 2017
Industrial demand outstripping supply

Over the next five years, Florida's population is expected to grow by 1.3% annually, which could result in an 8-million-square-foot shortfall in the amount of distribution-related real estate required.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 20, 2017
Rebuilding Mode

Local Puerto Rican property owners are working to assess damage and reopen their properties on the battered island.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 20, 2017
Strategic Pivot

Boston-based Farley White Interests has targeted the Gulf Coast as its primary market for acquisitions outside of New England.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 20, 2017
Vision Properties adding to Renaissance Center

Buoyed by its success earlier this year fully leasing a speculative office building in its corporate park in the Westshore district of Tampa, New Jersey-based Vision Properties has unveiled plans for two additional office developments in the 71-acre Renaissance Center.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 20, 2017
Ready to Launch

A young area entrepreneur seeks to stake out his space in training others how to use the get-it-done business tool of the future, and the now: drones.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 20, 2017
Drink Up

Tampa's Fintech is riding high on the success of its system for streamlining alcohol payment processing. Next up: Manage the rapid growth.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 20, 2017
Lee County has trio of fast-growing cities

Lehigh Acres and Fort Myers, both in Lee County, are among the fastest-growing cities in America, according to a new tabulation by research firm WalletHub.

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