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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2016
Economic Forecast | Lee-Collier

The one word that could neatly sum up what Gulf Coast business owners and entrepreneurs would like to see in the economy in 2017 is a soothing one: balance.

  • Florida
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 18, 2016
TGM continues buying frenzy

TGM Associates' acquisition of the Tuscany Apartments in Sarasota marks the second time in as many years that the 386-unit community has traded hands, property records show.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 18, 2016
An 'unlocked gem'

Cortland Partners' plans could add nearly 600 new units to Bowery Bayside.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 18, 2016
Self-storage REIT completes $73 million in deals

As part of its $630 million acquisition of iStorage PO LLC, a Winter Haven-based self-storage operator and investor, National Storage Affiliates Trust, has valued six of the company's Gulf Coast properties at nearly $73 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 11, 2016
New York investment firms snap up St. Pete apartments

A pair of New York-based multifamily investment firms have spent a combined $149 million to acquire two St. Petersburg apartment complexes, Pinellas County property records show.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 11, 2016
High (Rise) Hopes

The coming year could be a banner one for high-end high-rises in Southwest Florida.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 11, 2016
'Smaller bites'

After years of developing larger and larger projects, Steve Hovland is focusing on simplicity -- and sleep.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 11, 2016
Taubman refinances Mall at UTC debt

Taubman Centers, the Michigan-based retail developer that owns the Mall at University Town Center in Sarasota County with Benderson Development Co., has refinanced the property's debt.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 11, 2016
Newmark Grubb tapped to lease Tampa Regional spec building

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank's Tampa office has been tapped to lease a new speculative industrial building being developed in the Interstate 4 corridor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 4, 2016
Professor's Proof

Suhas Patil is a former professor who built a $1 billion company that makes chips for technology. Now he's passing on the lessons he's learned.

  • Industries
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 4, 2016
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE | Roger Thomas

Roger Thomas leads Workspace Property Trust, which last month completed a $969 million acquisition of a portfolio of office properties from Liberty Property Trust, including numerous properties in the Tampa area.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 4, 2016
Thinking global

When Johnson & Johnson decided to move its Global Services division North American headquarters to Tampa from New Jersey, where the company was formed in 1886, it wasn't just packing up a department and relocating it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 4, 2016
Insula remains bullish on multifamily

Despite some lender pullback from the apartment sector and fears that past rent and occupancy growth can't be sustained in some markets, Insula Cos. remains optimistic about the future of the multifamily sector along the Gulf Coast.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 4, 2016
Lafayette Place in no hurry, developer says

For a project that could total 1.7 million square feet — roughly equivalent to the 42-story 100 North Tampa, SunTrust Financial Centre and the Tampa City Center skyscrapers combined — Hillsborough River Realty Co. doesn't appear to be in any rush to break ground.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • November 4, 2016
Polk industrial market surging

Industrial space in Polk County is expanding significantly as a result of several major build-to-suit and speculative developments that have recently come on line, according to a new report.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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