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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
Publix Super Markets buys Brooker Creek Shopping Center

Lakeland-based grocery firm Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased the 77,596-square-foot Brooker Creek Shopping Center in Palm Harbor for $13.35 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
Florida Medical Clinic taking over former Borders

Land O'Lakes-based Florida Medical Clinic PA purchased the 30,000-square-foot former Borders Carrollwood store for $3.85 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
Ford Motor Credit building sells for $21.5M

CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust purchased the 123,408-square-foot Sabal Pavilion office building for $21.5 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
Casey Key property owner buys Wishing Well motel

A local Casey Key property owner, operating as On The Beach Casey Key LLC, purchased the 17-unit Wishing Well Beach To Bay Resort for $1.1 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
NYT sells Herald-Tribune properties

Halifax Media Group acquired two of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's offices, and arranged for Dallas-based AIC Ventures to buy a third.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
R&D Cattle Co. buys Alva acreage

R&D Cattle Co. LLC purchased 450 acres of vacant land north of River Road, near the intersection of Elmwood Drive, for $1.2 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
Fort Myers Preparatory & Fitness relocating to Robb & Stucky building

Fort Myers Preparatory & Fitness Academy plans to use a former Robb & Stucky warehouse and showroom as the new Fort Myers home for its charter school.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
Reliant Group investment fund buys Woodbury Apartments

CAP VI- Eden Pointe, an affiliated fund of The Reliant Group, purchased the 270-unit Woodbury Apartments in Bradenton for $11.2 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2012
German investor 1030 International buys Marco Island Walgreens

An undisclosed German investor, operating as 1030 International Speedway Boulevard Ltd., purchased a 14,467-square-foot Walgreens building on Marco Island for $5.7 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon
  • February 10, 2012
The Louisiana Purchase

An ambitious Gulf Coast startup insurance firm will wage a fight for new business in several states, yet Florida isn't in the mix — a knock against the state's regulatory disorder. The move has already begun to pay off.

  • Industries
  • By Jean Gruss
  • February 10, 2012
Bigger Hands

In 2011, Ted Todd Insurance wrote more insurance premiums than any other Allstate Insurance agency in the country. Seizing opportunities and altering the business model were keys.

  • Industries
  • By Alex Mahadevan
  • February 10, 2012
Healthy Money

The key to reining in health spending is changing behavior. UnitedHealthcare touts products that will make being healthy more than just physically attractive.

  • Industries
  • By Rod Thomson
  • February 10, 2012
Capitol Chatter: Feb. 10

Small business tax breaks, prison privatization, and other Tallahassee topics.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2012
Rocky Patel Premium Cigars buys industrial properties

Local cigar manufacturer Rocky Patel Premium Cigars Inc. purchased its two Bonita Springs flex buildings for $1.38 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2012
Avanti Properties Group fund buys defunct Artesia community

Avanti Strategic Land Investors, an institutional fund of Winter Park-based Avanti Properties Group, purchased 262 acres in the partially developed residential community of Artesia for a total of $5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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