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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Elite Heating & Air buys Ambient Air building

Elite Holdings of Manatee LLC purchased the 7,000-square-foot former Ambient Air flex building for $340,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Masters Commercial Holdings buys Kennedy Boulevard's DocuSource

Travis Masters purchased a 4,900-square-foot freestanding retail building on Kennedy Boulevard for $1.15 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Lee's Conservation 20/20 buys land from Waterman

Lee County purchased 136 acres east of Interstate 75 near Wellfield Road.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Swan FM LLC of Texas buys two Jetport Loop buildings

Swan FM LLC purchased two warehouse buildings totaling 75,000 square feet for $2 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Michigan's Next Properties Plans a Venice McDonald's

Troy, Mich.-based Next Properties Inc. filed a site plan to build a 3,590-square-foot McDonald's at 4269 Tamiami Trail in Venice, just west of Woodmere Park Boulevard.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Dessberg pursuing approvals for Stickney Point Plaza

Sarasota developer Rodney Dessberg is moving forward with plans to build Stickney Point Plaza, a strip mall planned for an area just north of Stickney Point Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Out-of-Door Academy building fitness center

The Out-of-Door Academy plans to break ground soon on a 3,300-square-foot building to house a fitness center and a maintenance complex.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
All Florida Orthopaedic buys nearby Ponderosa

All Florida Orthopaedic Associates PA purchased a 5,424-square-foot former Ponderosa Steakhouse for $1.2 million. The price equated to $221 per square foot.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Tampa firm buys most of Legacy at Tampa

CCP Legacy LLC purchased 121 units in the 168-unit Legacy at Tampa condo complex for $2.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • April 8, 2010
Fighting the Fed

By some accounts the end of another Gulf Coast bank could be on the horizon. But the bank's founder, Charlie Conoley, hasn't conceded anything yet.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • April 8, 2010
Cream Rising

For a handful of Gulf Coast community banks, the struggle to survive remains dire in 2010. More than a few institutions, however, have weathered the worse and are looking to grow.

  • Finance
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  • By Jean Gruss
  • April 8, 2010
Bond managers shine

Good stock advisers are hard to come by on the Gulf Coast, but you don't have to look far to find great bond pickers.

  • Finance
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  • By Jean Gruss
  • April 8, 2010
Off the Shelf

What are a bunch of New York financiers doing in Immokalee? Loaded with $440 million in capital, they're planning to build one of the biggest Florida-based financial institutions since Barnett Bank.

  • Finance
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  • By Jay Brady
  • April 8, 2010
Port in a Storm

Port Manatee is investing heavily in anticipation of more business coming through the Panama Canal starting in 2014.

  • Florida
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  • By Jay Brady
  • April 8, 2010
Government Digest: April 9 - April 15

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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