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Industries

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Time to Buy - Apartments

A Tampa couple sees a solid future in apartmentsand has bought three complexes in three months.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Fall Forward

For-profit companies aren't the only entities that look to autumn as the economic forecasting season. Nonprofits on the Gulf coast are peering into the next year, too.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
'09 Economic Forecast

The financial crisis added another challenge to business owners trying to guess what 2009 will bring. Everyone agrees the economy won't come roaring back.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
The Outplacer

Daniel Farrar says Gulf Coast business owners are too negative. Anyplace in Florida looks better when you move from the Midwest.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
A Business Haven

An entrepreneur new to the wonders of Longboat Key wantsto see the island grow into a business hub. It's a big challenge.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Encore Performance

Jerry Campbell founded one of Michigan's largest banks before selling it. He has started HomeBanc on the Gulf Coast with statewide visions

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Back in Black

Chocolatier Norman Love kept a lid on expansionduring the boom years, preferring to spend his energies creating new products instead. It's paying off today.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Corporate Report

Odyssey Marine to team withIntersal for a site explorationBrown & Brown Inc. buysassets of Nashville firm CL Verify releases Tracker,new debtor-tracing serviceU.S. Army awards GeneralDynamics $33-million contractHomeowners' Choice subsidiaryassuming 45,000 home policiesSyniverse Technologiesintroduces new roaming hubAmerican Integrity offersmanufactured home policiesFairWarning Inc.releases updated softwareMurphy Business, FinancialServices opens Tampa officeIllum Productions to provideanimation for "9 to 5" show

  • Industries
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Still Fighting

Two surveys show that small business owners,both in the Gulf Coast and nationwide, are bulking up on one intangible asset for 2009: Hope.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
By The Numbers

By The Numbers

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Juniper Communities buys Naples ALFFort Myers hoteliersbuy Naples Super 8 MotelBelleair Development Groupplans Skyline Boulevard 7-ElevenJBM Realty Advisorslisting River Reach ApartmentsHealth Care REIT funding Windsor facility in VeniceHide-Away Storage Servicesplanning Fruitville facilitySpec Building Materialsbuys Bradenton warehouseStarwood Land Venturesinks N.C.-acquisition dealKennedy Investments buys Hanna warehouseProBuild Holdingsbuys Plant City warehouseDEV Hospitalitybuys Clearwater Wingate Road, Shops at Wiregrass,set to open in October

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Observer Staff
  • October 16, 2008
Tapping Technology

Scott Riley has successfully focused Fintech.com on one activity: Helping clients pay liquor vendors electronically.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 16, 2008
Health Navigators

Delphi, a St. Petersburg company, helps employers and their staffs get the best value in health care coverage.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 16, 2008
Blades of platinum

A new cultivar of grass with roots in the slave ships from Africa may prove lucrative for a Gulf Coast turf company, especially if it ends up on your front lawn.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 16, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Technical high school construction completeLandmark Residential buys Colony At El ConquistadorU.S. Postal Servicesbuys land for McIntosh annex Myakka City cattle rancherbuys additional 220 acresCounty micro surfacingeight-neighborhood roadsCharles & Chase Groupstarts Regency House phase twoPunta Gorda Lodging buys Hilton landBrookwood Value Partnersbuys Bella Vida home lotsNaples investor buysJPMorgan Chase building Rollin' Oats owners buy Nature's Harvest storeSchool District of Pasco Countybuys Handcart property Kissimmee area Patel familybuys Tarpon Springs innTower Realty Partners Inc.to lease Tampa office building

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