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Industries

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • February 4, 2012
New York investors buy Cortez Apartments

New Rochelle, N.Y., apartment owners John and Michele Pugliese purchased the 84-unit Cortez Apartments for $4.6 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2012
Naples' Uptown Center sells for $7.7 million

Naples-based Halstatt Real Estate Partners purchased the 74,000-square-foot Uptown Center retail neighborhood center for $7.7 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 4, 2012
Sarasota investor Fox buys former U.S. 41 Concession office

Sarasota resident and clothing retailer Michael Fox purchased the 3,580-square-foot building best known as the former Concession sales office on U.S. 41 for $1 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2012
Investors buy Bay View Plaza for $4.36 million

Tampa investors Sam and Laurice Hachem have expanded their holdings yet again. The couple purchased the 78,781-square-foot Bay View Plaza shopping center for $4.36 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2012
Tampa Girl Scouts group buys half Eisenhower building

The Girl Scouts of West Central Florida purchased half of an Eisenhower Business Park building for $2.15 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2012
Miami's JSSH 1 LLC buys Whispering Palms units

JSSH 1 LLC, a Miami group with close ties to European investors, purchased 59 units in the Whispering Palms Condominiums in Largo for $3.12 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 3, 2012
Clark Station Retail Sarasota nearing Honore hotel start

A partnership is moving forward with plans for a new hotel on Honore Avenue in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Rod Thomson
  • February 3, 2012
Scott Stays on Track

Despite surprising decisions to spend more money on education and Everglades restoration, Gov. Rick Scott is sticking to his principles of shrinking government and growing the economy.

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  • By Rod Thomson
  • February 3, 2012
Capitol Chatter: Feb. 3

The most important issues being talked about in Tallahassee.

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  • By Jean Gruss
  • February 2, 2012
Help the Good Guys

Tom Grady says his priority is to build trust in the Florida Office of Financial Regulation by stopping lawbreakers, helping good operators and letting the public know the difference between the two.

  • Florida
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