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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 19, 2010
Government Digest 2/19/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Goodwill Industries buys Arborgate

Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida Inc. purchased the 30,875-square-foot Arborgate Shopping Center at the corner of Colonial Boulevard and Treeline Avenue, plus eight acres of undeveloped land, for $3.36 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Skatepark owner buys Ybor building

Ybor City Properties LLC, led by Brian Schaefer, owner of the Skatepark of Tampa, purchased an 11,360-square-foot two-story historic building at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and 14th Street in Ybor City for $825,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
OMG Realty buys Wachovia branch

OMG Realty LLC, an entity managed by Fort Myers plastic surgeon Ralph Garramone, purchased a former 10,020-square-foot Wachovia bank branch at the northwest corner of Cleveland Avenue and Big Pine Way for $1.3 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Platinum Equity wins Wellcraft buildings

Platinum Equity LLC acquired Wellcraft's closed main manufacturing facilities at 15th Street and Whitfield Avenue in Sarasota, an auxiliary plant and a vacant piece of land for $6.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Florida hospital buys Handcart Road property

Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Inc. purchased 15.42 acres of vacant commercial land fronting Handcart Road for $2.3 million. The purchase price equated to $149,157 per acre.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Aldi buys Lone Star for Bradenton store

Batavia, Ill.-based discount grocer Aldi USA purchased a 10,076-square-foot former Lone Star Steakhouse restaurant building southwest of Cortez Road and 47th Street for $1.88 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
National Home Communities buys Club Wildwood

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based National Home Communities LLC/National RV Communities LLC, purchased the Club Wildwood Mobile Home Park, a 478-space senior manufactured-home community in Hudson for $20.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Microlumen buys land in Oldsmar

Microlumen Enterprises LLC, a Tampa-based manufacturer of high-performance medical tubing, purchased 6.5 acres on Forrest Lakes Boulevard, north of Tampa Road, for $1.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Maryland doctor develops Sanibel complex

Maryland gastroenterologist James Frizzell purchased 2.23 acres on Tarpon Bay Road near Periwinkle Way for $1.5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Cambridge affiliate buys 18 residential units

Del Ray Condominium Properties LLC, a company affiliated with Naples property management company Cambridge Management of Southwest Florida, purchased 18 units in six condominium developments in Lee and Collier counties for $1.2 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Venice Christian Schoo plans three-phase expansion

Venice Christian School has filed a site plan for the first of a three-phase expansion project.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 18, 2010
Willis A. Smith hired for museum

Sarasota-based Willis A. Smith Construction Inc. has been hired as the general contractor for a 24,475-square-foot expansion of the Circus Museum's Tibbals Learning Center building at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Mark Gordon
  • February 12, 2010
A Proper Way

Chris Abbott thought he would grow his one-man real estate company slow and steady when he founded it in late 2008. Eight employees and a half-dozen big contracts later, that plan is history.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jean Gruss
  • February 12, 2010
New management

Three veteran Naples money managers are betting that the turmoil in the financial services industry makes this the perfect time to launch their own firms in the wealth-management capital of the Gulf Coast.

  • Industries
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