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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Capital Health Group buys Sunset Bay facility

Pennsylvania-based Capital Health Group LLC purchased the 77-bed Sunset Bay assisted-living community on Kai Loop near Rowan Road south of Trouble Creek Road for $5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Florida Living Options files Hawthorne site plan

Assisted-living facility owner and operator Florida Living Options has filed a site plan to develop its Hawthorne Manor skilled nursing facility on the five acres at the southeast corner of DeSoto Road and Honore Avenue in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Sarasota Memorial looks at Brownfield site

Officials with Sarasota Memorial Health Care System are exchanging information with the city of Sarasota over the future of a 13-acre parcel on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way between U.S. 301 and Mango Avenue.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
Central Park Realty buys 39 condos

The Sarasota-based residential and commercial real estate firm Central Park Realty Corp. purchased 26 units in the Pinecrest Arms condominium and 13 units in Beneva Village for a total of $2.04 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Alex Walsh
  • February 25, 2010
Innovation Wave

For the past 18 months, Tampa Bay's Web developer community has been gaining momentum. Linda Olson is part of the reason.

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  • By Mark Gordon
  • February 25, 2010
Need for Speed

Is the worst economic downturn in generations the right time to open a car dealership that sells vehicles priced liked beachfront condos? Yes it is, says Victor Young.

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  • By Jean Gruss
  • February 25, 2010
Management Stars

Property management companies are lining up to help banks and other lenders manage distressed commercial real estate. It's one of the few bright spots in an industry decimated by the recession.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jay Brady
  • February 25, 2010
Getting down to business

Florida legislators focus on generating jobs by helping business.

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  • By Jay Brady
  • February 25, 2010
Government Digest 02/26/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • February 19, 2010
Drive Time

The talk is all cars at a bi-monthly gathering of Gulf Coast car devotees. Still, there is business to be had amid the chatter.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • February 19, 2010
Scary Times

Paul Purcell, chief executive of a nearly $700 million financial services firm, reveres free markets, entrepreneurs and capitalism. No surprise: President Obama gives him nightmares.

  • Industries
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  • By Jay Brady
  • February 19, 2010
Pendulum Pusher

Sarasota community banker Charlie Brown brings a strong voice from “ground zero” to an FDIC committee working to balance banking regulations and credit against “a tidal wave of commercial-loan foreclosures” and a weakened jobs bill.

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

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • 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
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  • 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
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