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  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 4, 2025
Manatee mobility manufacturer partners with Fort Myers company

Hoveround Mobility Solutions entered into what it calls a “strategic partnership” with Merits Health Products.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa hospital revamps menu with celebrity chef, debuts room service

Tampa General Hospital has partnered with Geoffrey Zakarian to redefine hospital food.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 4, 2025
$15.95 million waterfront estate listed on Siesta Key

The property comes with a guest house and deepwater dock.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa REIT buys Texas medical centers for $16M

Sila Realty Trust bought the two-facility portfolio in Southlake, just outside of Dallas-Fort Worth.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa retail center near Raymond James Stadium sells for $5 million

The plaza on MacDill Avenue was bought by a local commercial real estate company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 3, 2025
Prominent Sarasota corporate HQ up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Naples high-end shopping center gets an upgrade, a Tampa condo complex to be "repositioned" as rental apartments, and Manatee buys a historic farm.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 2, 2025
Hoffmann Family's new Naples boutique a step toward national expansion, says matriarch

More than 50 years of marriage and helping create a multibillion business has not dimmed Jerri Hoffmann’s entrepreneurial drive.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 2, 2025
Fractured condo sale near the University of South Florida

An investment firm has bought up 248 of the 260 units at a 51-year-old condominium community in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 2, 2025
Brandon apartment owners borrow $32 million

The refinancing is on the 328-unit Lakside Center Apartments.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 1, 2025
New Melting Pot leader dishes on growth goals, culture lessons

John Crawford melds key lessons in building high-performing teams and meeting high-bar financial goals with an empathic side in his new role at the helm of the Melting Pot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Andrew Warfield
  • August 1, 2025
Colson Hotel to be restored as a business incubator

With a goal of providing business startup space across all demographics, the group preserving the Colson Hotel plans to renovate it as the Colson Collective.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 31, 2025
New CEO takes over Tampa Bay Innovation Center

The St. Petersburg incubator is also planning a rebranding to be announced later this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Eric Garwood
  • July 31, 2025
Record home sale at $30.3 million closes for Longboat Key property

The property called "Serenissima" previously broke sales-price record in 2020.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 31, 2025
Fort Myers shopping center under new management

Bell Tower will be overseen by third-party management company DLC.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 31, 2025
Sarasota company buys Iowa hotel for $14.5 million

A St. Armands-based financial firm purchased a hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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