Industries

By Kevin McQuaid
January 27, 2017

Polk County Industrial Market

Distributors, logistics firms and e-commerce purveyors alike have flocked to Polk County because of its central Florida location, sophisticated highway network that connects Interstate 4 with Interstate 75 and Interstate 95 and its ability to reach roughly 18 million customers within a 24-hour drive.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Traci McMillan Beach
January 27, 2017

No longer vacant

A site that sat empty for more than a decade has new life, with a $60 million project.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 27, 2017

Meridian ends 2016 in disposition mode

Meridian Development Group likely had a busier December than most, because it sold a pair of major Gulf Coast commercial properties for a combined $67.25 million.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Kevin McQuaid
January 27, 2017

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Liberty Group is altering both the way, and the where, it does business — starting with land deals in its own backyard.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Ted Carter
January 27, 2017

All aboard

A onetime train station — and later a museum — is primed for a rebirth as a technology hub.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Kevin McQuaid
January 27, 2017

Vue Sarasota Bay facing delay

One of downtown Sarasota's most significant commercial real estate projects of the current real estate cycle is facing a labor-induced delay that will push back completion by months.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Kevin McQuaid
January 27, 2017

Pulte executes large land deal in Collier

Homebuilder sentiment remains high throughout the Gulf Coast, and one of the nation's largest residential builders appears to be equally confident in the future.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Adrian Moore
January 27, 2017

Power to the doctors

The more control health care professionals have over the process, the more efficient and effective medical operations are likely to become.

Florida

By Jean Gruss
January 20, 2017

Capital intensive

Consider 1997 the year Florida's banking industry witnessed the equivalent of a gust of wind on a dandelion. That's the year NationsBank announced it would buy Barnett Banks, Florida's largest homegrown banking institution for $15.5 billion.

Finance

By Kevin McQuaid
January 20, 2017

Shift in progress

Few Gulf Coast industries have undergone as much change -- or expansion — over the past two decades as commercial real estate.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 13, 2017

Tampa apartment tower sells for $88 million

In what is believed to be the Gulf Coast's largest urban multifamily sales of the past year, a New York firm has acquired the Skyhouse Channelside tower for $88 million.