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  • December 23, 2009
Westshore's Sheraton Suites completes renovation

The Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore has completed a multimillion-dollar renovation.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Manatee County School Board moves MTI building to SR 70

The Manatee County School Board has approved moving a planned new Manatee Technical Institute facility to property it owns on State Road 70 and Caruso Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 23, 2009
Sembler's Winter Garden wins design, development award

Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves, developed by The Sembler Co., won the inaugural International Council of Shopping Centers' U.S. Design and Development Shopping Center Awards in the category of 'Innovative Design and Development of a New Project over 500,000 square feet'.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss
  • December 18, 2009
Sold note

The banker who gave you a business loan may not be the same one you negotiate with in harder times. Banks are selling loans to raise capital in the downturn, leaving borrowers to fend off aggressive investors.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • December 18, 2009
Loyal Lucie

A Gulf Coast hairstylist to stars, celebrities and the affluent has found that no matter the customer, loyalty goes a long way. She's proving her theory in the recession as well.

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  • December 17, 2009
Tropic Property Management buys Omni Apartments

Tropic Property Management Inc., a company headed by Tampa attorney Stephen Kipple, purchased the 47-unit Omni Apartments on 109th Avenue east of U.S. 41 for $595,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2009
Hunter Warfield buys new HQ building

Tampa-based collections and asset investigation firm Hunter Warfield purchased a former State Farm Insurance building in Woodland Corporate Center just of Water Avenue for $2.3 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2009
Florida investors buy Bridgeview Apartments

Bridgeview Apartments LLC, an investment group affiliated with the Davie-based real estate firm JB Howell, purchased the 348-unit Bridgeview Apartments near Hanley Road for $20.8 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • December 17, 2009
Harun buys former bank building

The limited liability company Harun LLC purchased a 12,340-square-foot former Wachovia Bank branch just south of State Road 70 on Lakewood Ranch Boulevard for $1.4 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 17, 2009
Florida Badger buys retail, residential building

Mark Theiler, a Sarasotan best known for his Badger Appliance store, bought out a former partners' interest in a 7,984-square-foot two-story building east of the Sarasota Pavilion for $562,100.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2009
Brian's Auto Co. buys Venice lumberyard

Brian McMurphy, owner of Brian's Auto Co. of Osprey, purchased a 48,805-square-foot lumberyard on Center Road between Tamiami Trail and the U.S. 41 Venice Bypass from Cox Lumber for $700,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2009
Automated Petroleum, Energy buys Fort Myers Sunoco

Brandon-based Automated Petroleum & Energy Co. Inc. purchased a Sunoco service station building north of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Interstate 75 for $750,000.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2009
Georgia company buys Consulate Health Care

FC-THC Leasing III LLC, a limited liability company related to Alpharetta, Ga.-based Formation Capital, purchased the 43,430-square-foot Consulate Health Care of North Fort Myers retirement community at the southeast corner of Pondella Road and 25th Avenue for $10.1 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2009
Greystar buys Beach Club, Viridian Lake

Charleston, S.C.-based multi-family company Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC purchased the Beach Club Apartments and the Viridian Lake next to each other on the Winkler Avenue Extension for $17.25 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • December 17, 2009
D.R. Horton restarts, builds homes in River Place

Residential builder D.R. Horton purchased six lots in River Place, a community just west of Interstate 75 and south of State Road 70 for $326,000. The purchase price equated to $54,333 per lot.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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