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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 12, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Edens & Avant buys Colonial CrossingsLiberty Investment Properties plans second Fort Myers hotelLocation Finders plans small retail stripHoliday Cove RV Resort sold, may turn condoAmsdell family buys site for self storageTempus Electronic owner building new home, moreInvestors acquire Largo's Wachovia buildingBayfront Health System buys suites in St. PeteSterndrive Engineering moving to Oldsmar

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  • October 12, 2007
Hiring in commercial real estate

Turns out commercial real estate is a hot and lucrative career for new MBAs. While that's good for them, it presents a challenge for commercial real estate executives, according to Stan Ross, chairman of the board of the University of Southern California's Lusk Center for Real Estate and co-author of the book, The Inside Track to Careers in Real Estate.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • October 5, 2007
Green Backs

One of the greenest of green buildings in the Gulf Coast takes, well, a lot of greenbacks. It's worth ever dollar, its owners say.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 5, 2007
'A Second Skin'

A Sarasota firm is first in line to use a building material that protects against a constant Gulf Coast threat: Humidity.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 5, 2007
Corporate Report

Bank of Florida unveils Silverlake system Radiation Therapy Services acquires Greenville centerNew majority owner for Advanced Bio-TechnologiesVäxa International adds new presidentQRS Music Technologies selling SMK piano productsLutz's Prizm Group merges with Berryhill & Associates

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  • October 5, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Songy Partners drops D'Jamoos at The ForumJMP Farms LLC buys High Cotton propertiesSpace Box Storage builds facilityHollywood investor groupbuys Oneco SquareAbsolute Metal Roofingmoves to SarasotaFormer St. Augustine couple acquires Holiday Inn ExpressDinerstein Cos., Perennial Properties planning Westshore apartmentsCommercial brokers invest in Twiggs office buildingWal-Mart buys land for Supercenter

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  • October 5, 2007
Pump Pocket 'Mompreneurs'

Two Wesley Chapel moms start a business to help diabetic children after seeing the clothing challenges firsthand. The business is taking off.

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  • October 5, 2007
Foreign Born

After surviving the paperwork gauntlet, a hip overseas firm is officially open in the U.S. It chose Sarasota for its U.S. headquarters.

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  • October 5, 2007
The Serial Entrepreneur

St. Petersburg executive Mark Swanson has started a number of technology companies over the years, including Telovations, a telecommunications firm in Tampa.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 5, 2007
Fewer Chiefs

Johnson Engineering reorganized the way its leaders make decisions and became one of the fastest-growing engineering companies in the country.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 5, 2007
Designs for Learning

Harvard Jolly Inc., a St. Petersburg architecture firm, is teaming with an education think tank to design new schools that promote student success.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • October 5, 2007
A Piece of the Rock

A small but vocal band of residents in southeast Lee County is threatening Southwest Florida's economy. Who will stand up to them?

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • September 28, 2007
Total Control

A pair of executives with established Gulf Coast construction firms has taken going independent to new heights. One's already hit $20 million in annual revenues.

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  • September 28, 2007
Commercial Clouds

Office-space vacancies are creeping up, rents may fall in some areas and prospective tenants are becoming more hesitant about leasing new space. But that's not stopping new development of offices along Interstate 75 from Tampa to Fort Myers.

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  • September 28, 2007
Parts on Tap

Carter|VerPlanck, a Tampa-based supplier of parts for water and wastewater plants, never stops searching for product innovations.

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