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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Inland American REIT buys Sarasota Pavilion

Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, the purchasing arm of Oak Brook, Ill.-based The Inland Real Estate Group of Cos. Inc., purchased the 324,985-square-foot Sarasota Pavilion retail center at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Stickney Point Road for $44.67 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Foundation Realty Advisors buy, manage Hampton Oaks

A one-year-old real-estate investment firm, Foundation Realty Advisors, and an Alabama private investor purchased the six-building Hampton Oaks Business Park off U.S. 301 and north of Interstate 4 for $18.4 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Kingstown Family Trust buys car wash

Kingstown Family Trust I LLC, a trust led by John Allen of the Minneapolis-based commercial real estate development, investment and management company Industrial Equities LLP, purchased the 3,600-square-foot City Gate Car Wash on White Lake Boulevard north of Interstate 75 for $700,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
DBJ Carwash LLC buys Palm Beach Blvd. car wash

DBJ Carwash LLC, led by Daniel and Bonnie Johns of Fort Myers, purchased a 3,083-square-foot car wash at the northwest corner of Palm Beach Boulevard and Parkview Drive for $598,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Myakka 110 LLC buys vacant land

Myakka 110 LLC purchased 110 acres of wilderness land at the southern end of Carlton Road near Murphy Road for $746,900.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Port Dolphin Energy signs with Port

The Manatee County Port Authority has approved a long-term $30 million agreement with Port Dolphin Energy LLC for it to lease 35 acres at the port and additional property for its pipeline.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Morton Plant hospital develops new campus

Morton Plant North Bay Hospital has completed its new Starkey Medical Tower and its Medical Arts Building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Computer owner company buys Pine Cove Villas

Pine Cove Villas LLC, headed by the owners of Clearwater-based SCC Soft Computer, Gilbert and Jean Hakim, purchased the Pine Cove Villas west of Wolford Road south of Haines Bayshore Road for $1.63 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Homebuilder D.R. Horton buying lots in Horse Creek

Fort Worth, Texas-based homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc. purchased 22 lots in Horse Creek Estates, a community north of Immokalee Road and east of U.S. 41 for $1.32 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Jean Gruss
  • March 25, 2010
New Kingdom

Mutual of Omaha Bank is the latest financial institution from outside the state to capitalize on the upheaval in Florida banking. The Nebraska bank hired veteran Florida executives to oversee their expansion.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon
  • March 25, 2010
Let it Ride

An 81-year-old Gulf Coast gambling business needs a pick-me-up. Some of its brightest hopes are pinned on state legislators.

  • Industries
  • By Jay Brady
  • March 25, 2010
Gulf Coast Gaming Mecca?

A state economist developed an analysis to gauge the revenues to the state from gaming in different counties and the Gulf Coast dominated the list — potentially more than doubling state revenues.

  • Industries
  • By Jay Brady
  • March 25, 2010
Drill This

The stakes just got higher for Florida to get into the multibillion-dollar oil-and-gas-leasing game.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Government Digest: March 26 - April 1

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Clearwater senior-living firm buys Village Place

Clearwater-based real estate firm TJM Properties purchased the 92-unit Village Place assisted living facility on Cochran Boulevard east of Education Way for $6.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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