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Industries

  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 4, 2025
Local closures expected as Advance Auto, Red Robin shutter stores

The retailer and restaurant chains, joining a growing number of chains that are trimming store counts across the country and region, have said they plan to close locations.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 4, 2025
Naples developer pays $26M for downtown Sarasota sites

The Lutgert Cos. has built more than a dozen projects in Naples.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • March 4, 2025
Manatee County reconsiders buying shuttered fruit farm appraised at $16M

The property could become a county complex that includes a library, park and community center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 4, 2025
$150M Sarasota real estate firm merges with global agency

Living Vogue Real Estate has become part of eXp Realty.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 3, 2025
Los Angeles wellness chain coming to prime Tampa development

Local franchisees are opening a Pause Studio location in late March at Midtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 3, 2025
Boutique luxury home community coming to west Bradenton

Home prices at Tideline start at more than $980,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 3, 2025
Large Tampa office complex lands major tenant, nears full occupancy

The new tenant is expanding into three buildings on campus.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 3, 2025
Goodwill Manasota opens new donation center in Lakewood Ranch

The Goodwill donation center is in a “prime position,” according to the nonprofit’s senior director of real estate.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 3, 2025
Charlotte County hospital sells for $260 million, renamed

The purchase includes the land for ShorePoint Health Punta Gorda, a local hospital that closed year after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 3, 2025
'Two-tour' FL senator begins next chapter: CEO of $300M family office

Former politician Tom Lee has gone from homebuilding to wealth building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Steven Benna
  • March 3, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

FPL's acquisition of land in Collier County for $23.43 million paces the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 2, 2025
Lee County hospital sells for $32M to Nashville health care group

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a refurbished Hilton opens in Fort Myers, a Tampa retailer built on controversial property sells, and more homes coming to North Port.

  • Florida
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 1, 2025
Pinellas Transit announces new shuttle service to Clearwater Beach

The route, geared toward tourists, begins at the PIE airport.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • February 28, 2025
Tampa hospital closing, laying off 143 workers

Kindred Hospital will be closing at the end of April, according to a letter filed with the state.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • February 28, 2025
Sarasota Housing Authority secures funding from Lee County agency

The Sarasota County Commission has OK'd loans from Housing Finance Authority of Lee County to fund construction of two low-income housing projects.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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