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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Gayatri Properties buys Wachovia branch

Gayatri Properties LLC, led by Chittaranjan, Yamini, Dr. Hiren and Dr. Dipal Patel, of Port Charlotte, purchased a 4,602-square-foot former Wachovia Bank building on Harbor Boulevard north of Tamiami Trial for $550,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
P Berger Holdings of Illinois buys closed building

Winnetka, Ill.'s P Berger Holdings LLC purchased the former Jean Paul's French Corner, a 2,752-square-foot restaurant building on Tarpon Bay Road south of Periwinkle Way for $635,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
TJM Properties buys Sunset Lake Village

TJM Properties, a Clearwater-based senior-living real estate firm, purchased the 110-bed Sunset Lake Village north of the intersection of Jacaranda Boulevard and Center Road for $6.2 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Circle K Stores buys Clark Road Exxon station

Circle K Stores Inc. purchased a 4,520-square-foot Exxon convenience store on Clark Road east of Honore Avenue from Davie-based One Corp. for $2.69 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Walgreen Co. buys Lutz building for drug store

Deerfield, Ill.-based drug store chain Walgreen Co. purchased a 4,022-square-foot retail building on 0.96 acres, and an additional 2.83 acres at the corner of Sunset Lane and U.S. 41 for $1.85 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Father-son investment team buys Tampa's Valencia Village

Hayes Enterprises Tampa LLC, a real estate entity owned by James Hayes III of West Palm Beach and his father, James Hayes II of Corpus Christi, Texas, purchased the 132-unit Valencia Village apartments between Fletcher and 131st avenues for $1.93 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
ESJ Capital buys Tampa's University Park

ESJ Capital Partners, a European-investor real estate fund based in Aventura, purchased the three-building University Park development across the street from the University of South Florida campus for $12 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Neal Communities buys 87 more lots

Homebuilder Neal Communities of Southwest Florida purchased 80 lots in the gated Sawgrass community and seven lots in Lakes of Jacaranda from Synovus Bank for $3.58 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
CJ contractors build warehouse rail line

Mulberry-based CJ Bridges Rail Road Contractors has started construction on a new half-mile rail spur at Port Manatee Commerce Center, connecting the industrial warehouse complex near Port Manatee to CSX Transportation rail lines.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Riteway Investments buys Seminole Avenue apartments

Celestino and Gustavo Marrero, the owners and founders of Hollywood-based insurance-focused building contractor Riteway Insurance Repair Service Inc., purchased an 11-unit apartment building north of Palm Beach Boulevard for $120,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Mark Gordon
  • March 18, 2010
No Laughing Matter

A nationally renowned economist blames the federal government for much of the current financial mess. But hope, says Arthur Laffer, will be renewed in 2012.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 18, 2010
Pushing Uphill

Economic development, insurance, education reform, renewable energy and health issues are just some of the priorities Gulf Coast legislators are focused on this legislative session in Tallahassee.

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • March 18, 2010
Government Digest 3/19/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • By George Rauch
  • March 18, 2010
How Government Destroyed Our Money

Here's a historical account everyone should read. It shows how we have rejected what the Founding Fathers knew would destroy our Republic.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • March 11, 2010
Stuart S. Golding Co. buys Shoppes At 54

Clearwater developer Stuart S. Golding Co. purchased the 11,723-square-foot Shoppes At 54 retail center on State Road 54 east of Rowan Road for $1.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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