Industries

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

Venice Lincoln Mercury buys Buchanan's Venice properties

Venice Lincoln Mercury purchased the Venice Dodge Nissan property on U.S. 41 Bypass and two buildings on Seaboard Avenue for $6.5 million.

Manatee-Sarasota

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

Tampa investors buy Baywater Apartments

Tampa investors Albert Salem and Ranald Stewart III purchased the 176-unit Baywater Apartments for $8.75 million.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

New York trust buys Daniels Parkway BB&T

New York City-based American Realty Capital Trust Inc. purchased a 3,617-square-foot BB&T bank building for $3.85 million.

Commercial Real Estate

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

Canadian developer buys sites at Fruitville, U.S. 41

Toronto-based Palsar Development Inc. purchased 1.28 acres at the northwest corner of Fruitville Road and U.S. 41 for $2.7 million.

Manatee-Sarasota

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

Bovis Lend Lease completes Aqualea Resort

Bovis Lend Lease completed construction of the Aqualea Resort and Residences on Clearwater in Clearwater.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

Colliers International hires brokerage head

Ryan Kratz joined Colliers International as the director of brokerage.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Business Observer Staff
February 18, 2011

Starwood Land Ventures buys Orlando's Summerlake

Bradenton-based Starwood Land Ventures purchased the 1,500-unit Summerlake community in Orlando for more than $27.8 million.

Commercial Real Estate

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By Mark Gordon
February 18, 2011

System Strict

A small Gulf Coast city was the scene of a surprise surge in condo sales last year. The success gives hope that a full-blown rebound could be on the way.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Jay Brady
February 18, 2011

Pension Bomb

Government employee pension plans are a time bomb for cities and counties on the Gulf Coast. The recession has lit the fuse.

Florida

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By Jean Gruss
February 18, 2011

International designs

When the Naples market for custom-home designs collapsed in the recession, Bill and Kerry Weber looked overseas. They found it in unlikely places like South Korea, Denmark and Nigeria.