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Industries

  • By Kevin Jursinski
  • February 5, 2016
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Ian Black

Ian Black Real Estate has been busy of late, and not just with the transactions the Sarasota-based commercial real estate brokerage and management firm has been closing in the region's heated market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 5, 2016
New beginning for Pineapple Square

Just months after agreeing to move ahead with the development of the stalled Pineapple Square in downtown Sarasota, the Kolter Group has designated a new name and start date for the mixed-use project.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 29, 2016
Hoffmann adding to Naples portfolio

Fresh from its $74.3 million purchase of the 5th Avenue Collection last year, St. Louis-based Hoffmann Commercial Real Estate plans to augment its Naples portfolio.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 29, 2016
Commercial real estate Q&A: Dan O'Berski

Dan O'Berski formed Trinity Commercial Group in 2011, after more than a decade in the commercial real estate brokerage industry with companies such as CBRE Inc. and Naples Realty Services Inc.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 29, 2016
A changed landscape

Starwood Land Ventures and Vanguard Land shift their business plans in response to market conditions.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 29, 2016
Centauri move highlights space shortage

While Centauri Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc.'s plan to develop a new three-story headquarters in Lakewood Ranch later this year highlights the company's rapid growth, it also underscores the dearth of Class A office space throughout the Gulf Coast.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jean Gruss
  • January 29, 2016
Commercial repeat

Despite high valuations and concerns about economic growth, experts say commercial real estate will repeat with another year of solid performance.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Jean Gruss
  • January 29, 2016
Pay up

Technology entrepreneur Keith Stone says reinvesting profits into his company and encouraging employees to be entrepreneurial keeps CSI Enterprises growing fast.

  • Industries
  • By Adrian Moore
  • January 22, 2016
Fiat Water Use

When lawmakers adopted a massive water bill, they expanded the state's control. Rather than go California, water pricing would be better.

  • Florida
  • By Jean Gruss
  • January 22, 2016
Price discovery

Three Florida Gulf Coast University professors find home-price data from real estate agents may be off, especially during downturns.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 22, 2016
Sembler expands its portfolio

Sembler expanding its portfolio; Tampa's GE bid short-circuited; Validus Senior Living adding projects; Power brokers change firms to start 2016

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 22, 2016
Scientific method

Lakewood Ranch is making a push to aggregate life sciences in a new 265-acre campus that its backers say will be anything but clinical.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 22, 2016
Q&A | Steve Cunningham

As the qualifying broker for LandQwest Commercial, Steve Cunningham overseas the brokerage's entire operation, from strategic planning to operational analysis.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Jean Gruss
  • January 15, 2016
Connecticut connection

The hot Naples residential real estate market is getting national attention. New competitors like Connecticut-based William Raveis Real Estate are planning big moves there and across Florida.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 15, 2016
Commercial Real Estate Q&A: Lee Arnold

Continuing a trend toward corporate consolidation in the region's commercial real estate industry, Colliers International Tampa Bay, Central & Southwest Florida — a firm whose roots trace back to 1974, when CEO Lee Arnold founded his first brokerage operation — announced earlier this month that it has been acquired by Colliers International Group Inc., a publicly held company with more than 500 offices worldwide.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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