Industries

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Fairway buys Englewood Regions Bank branch

Birmingham, Ala.-based Fairway Investments purchased a 3,817-square-foot Regions Bank branch for $1.5 million.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Sarasota cardiac surgeon buys Venice BofA Building

Sarasota cardiac surgeon Dr. Thomas Kelly purchased a 36,371-square-foot three-story office building for $2 million.

Manatee-Sarasota

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

South Florida investor buys Sabal Pointe condos

Miami Gardens-based NRI Investments purchased 170 condos in the Enclave at Sabal Pointe for $4.12 million.

Commercial Real Estate

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Tampa mortgage banker buys Willow Avenue building

Tampa mortgage-banking firm First Housing purchased a three-story, 16,685-square-foot office building for $2.3 million.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Maryland firm buys Ferguson buildings

Glen Burnie, Md.-based R.E. Michel Co. Inc. purchased two Ferguson Heating & Cooling industrial buildings in Tampa for $1.88 million.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Church buys large Teleflex building

Missouri-based Faith Life Church purchased the 82,010- square-foot Teleflex building.

Manatee-Sarasota

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Fort Myers race car driver buys industrial buildings

Part-time Fort Myers resident John Schaller purchased two industrial buildings near the intersection of Crystal Drive and Plantation Road for $1.08 million.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

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By Business Observer Staff
October 26, 2010

Boos Development to build JPMorgan Chase Bank

Clearwater-based Boos Development Group purchased a one-acre outparcel in the Shoppes at Hammock Cove for $1.05 million.

Commercial Real Estate

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By Business Observer Staff
October 22, 2010

The Comeback

Worries loom for next year's economic outlook. But some executives are upbeat, at least about their own businesses, for the first time in a long time.

Industries

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By Jay Brady
October 22, 2010

Planning by Ballot Box

A diverse coalition opposing Amendment 4 have no shortage of predictable negative consequences with St. Pete Beach as their poster-child. Both sides agree that passage would mean a lot more lawsuits.

Florida

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By Jean Gruss
October 22, 2010

Collier County has the reputation as one of the worst places to do business on the Gulf Coast. Now that its unemployment hovers above 13%, Collier government's anti-business attitude may be mellowing.