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Industries

  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 22, 2025
National wealth management company invests in Sarasota financial firm

Summit Financial of New Jersey has made a strategic investment in LPF Advisors of Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 21, 2025
New mixed-use building coming to Water Street Tampa development

The developer behind the $6 billion development plans for 124-foot building with retail and nearly 700 parking spaces.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 21, 2025
Bradenton Publix reopens after renovations

Publix at Bayshore Gardens is back in business following a construction project.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 21, 2025
Lakewood Ranch tech company plans $800M software firm acquisition

Roper Technologies expects the deal with Subsplash to close by the end of July.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon
  • July 21, 2025
Sarasota leadership consultant buys out partner, emphasizes results

With an eye toward helping clients go from ‘inspiration to activation,’ former nonprofit CEO Robyn Faucy has found her stride helping other organizations get better results — quickly.

  • Leadership
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 21, 2025
USF Muma College of Business launches school of management

Demand for the management major drove the college to create its seventh school.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 21, 2025
Tampa family-run firm exits hotel business after 45 years

The Liberty Group sold the last six hotel in its portfolio ending an era that began in 1980 in Youngstown, Ohio.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • July 21, 2025
Fort Myers Yacht Club begins nearly $13M renovation

The Gulf Harbour Yacht & Country Club is less than five nautical miles from the Gulf.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 20, 2025
Cape Coral shopping center sells for $4.5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a day care chain is growing in Lee County, a beachfront property sells in Pinellas County, and a medical building is going up in Sarasota County.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • July 19, 2025
Real estate agent goes viral with racy jokes, Trump impersonations

Bidets, big trucks and everything in between. Not much is off limits for broker Breanna Banaciski as she carves out a comedic cult-following in a competitive field.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 18, 2025
57 jobs cut at Polk County manufacturing plant

Mizkan America will wind down operations of the bottling department at its plant in Lake Alfred.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 18, 2025
228 townhouses coming to 43-acre parcel

A national homebuilder has bought a 42.8-acre parcel in Pasco County’s Hudson.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 18, 2025
Medical office building to be built off Interstate 75 in Sarasota County

Construction is set to officially begin on a new Venice medical office building later July 24.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 18, 2025
Pinellas beachfront resort damaged during Hurricane Helene sold for $6M

The Sandalwood Beach Resort on North Redington Beach has sold and will be redeveloped.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 18, 2025
Luxury brokerage to list condos in major waterfront development

BTI Partners, the developers behind the luxury residential development Marina Pointe in Tampa, have signed Premier Sotheby’s International Realty to represent the property.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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