Industries

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July 13, 2007

Travel Survivor

Industries going through wrenching change can learn from the travel-agent business. A survivor in Naples tells how she adapted.

Entrepreneurs

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July 13, 2007

Fast Food Healthy Food

The Tampa-based fast casual restaurant chain has signed agreements to take the chain deeper into the Tampa Bay area as well as out West and in the Southeast.

Entrepreneurs

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July 13, 2007

Wrap it up

Sign Zoo was the first into the water wrapping boats in colorful signs. That now accounts for a growing portion of the company's business.

Entrepreneurs

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July 13, 2007

Rue Changes Strategy

The online training company is working primarily through institutions to reach more health care professionals.

Entrepreneurs

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July 13, 2007

Working University

Hodges University has built a solid reputation helping professionals advance their careers. Starting this fall, most students won't even have to set foot on its campus.

Entrepreneurs

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July 13, 2007

Intertape Polymer sale beat, new board electedUTEK sells sub-company to Material TechnologiesStinger Systems disputes Riverside rejectionGlass, Lewis & Co. backing Cryo-Cell current boardGeneral Counsel retirement causes shuffle at TECO Energy

Industries

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July 6, 2007

Commercial Real Estate Briefs

North Port hospital planned at North Sumter, I-75First Florida Bank building Charlotte branchSaunders acquires Strom & StromGemesis Corp. weighs expansion alternativesAM Engineering moves to trade centerWelsh buys land for retail projecTBoynton Beach firmbuys Westgate buildingSanibel physician buys Sunset buildingSalamander acquires Westin InnisbrookHIT Promotional expands to 118th AvenueLargo investor buys Ashley Oaks

Manatee-Sarasota

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July 6, 2007

Corporate Report

Forestry Resources Inc. buys Englewood firmGevity lowers forecast, cites slower client growthGreystone hires Stanford GroupMoneyShow.com teams with KCIXCPT signs pactwith dental collegeNetWolves system awarded U.S. patentAmscot Financial taking bill paymentsNeoMedia CFO, board member resignRapid Pathogen adds Sarasota locationPCT to handle Hurricane Glass ShieldOdyssey Marine moving to NASDAQ

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July 6, 2007

Like Radical, Dude

A national teen retailer is bringing its California vibe to Florida.It's opening 17 stores in the Sunshine State in less than a year.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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July 6, 2007

More Space on the Way

Despite the real estate slowdown, retail space continues to expand, giving tenants more leverage on rents. The national chains want in.

Entrepreneurs

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July 6, 2007

The Magic Touch

The Forbes Co. uses a four-legged stool to develop centers that get shoppers to stay longer and spend more.

Entrepreneurs

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July 6, 2007

Open & Mixed

As consumers embraced the open-air, mixed-use centers, retailers have found them more profitable than the enclosed malls.

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July 6, 2007

Stay Fresh, Reinvent

Taking a cue from pop-diva Madonna, star jewelry designer Erika Pena constantly reinvents her merchandise. Erika and her sister, Bielka, have big ambitions for their young firm.

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July 6, 2007

Rooftops, then Retail

Southern Pasco County has reached enough critical mass in population (doubled twice in 20 years) to draw fast growth in retail development.

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June 29, 2007

Growing Pains

Jim Needham tells doctors pondering job offers at the orthopedic and sports medicine practice he runs they should assume this is the place where they will have their retirement party.

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Travel Survivor

Fast Food Healthy Food

Wrap it up

Rue Changes Strategy

Working University

Corporate Report

Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Corporate Report

Like Radical, Dude

More Space on the Way

The Magic Touch

Open & Mixed

Stay Fresh, Reinvent

Rooftops, then Retail

Growing Pains

St. Pete insurance firm brings AI-powered risk platform to wider market

SMH to lease 54K-square-foot building, bring cancer services to Venice

USF researchers’ discovery could advance malaria vaccine development

Asian street food coming to UTC

Clearwater buyer picks up Lee County commercial property

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