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  • January 16, 2004
Florida's Largest Private Landholder

St. Joe Co. sees record earnings and profits as it develops North Florida. But environmentalists want to slow it down.

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  • January 16, 2004
More than Mortgages

Developer. Mortgage broker. Real estate broker. There's no pigeon holing Sarasota's Horizon Mortgage Corp.

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  • January 16, 2004
No Sale

A recent SEC filing explains why F.N.B. Corp. decided it had to split in two.

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  • January 16, 2004
Largest Jury Verdicts

Juries, upset over corporate scandals such as Enron, awarded $13.8 billion for fraud in 2003.

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  • January 16, 2004
Doing Good

Longtime St. Petersburg real estate lawyer Homer Duvall III was honored by the Community Law Program for his pro bono work on behalf of an elderly woman who would have lost her home if not for his help.

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  • January 16, 2004
Who Owns This Gem?

When Shannon Hotel Group acquired the Longboat Key Club, it had the help of some of Wall Street's savviest and most endowed investors. Meet the owners.

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Trailer Lawyer

Forget visions of a lawyer in cheap suits glad handing trailer park owners selling decrepit metal boxes on wheels. St. Petersburg attorney David Bernstein handles multimillion-dollar mobile home park transactions.

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  • January 16, 2004
Break Up

Zirkelbach Construction and Frye General Contracting split up after only months together.

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  • January 16, 2004
Letter:What happened to affordable housing?

I thought that after reading your article there were only two "developers/respondents" that counted: Trammell Crow and my group, Rocco Santomenno & Wanda Di Paola.

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  • January 16, 2004
Project ABSurd

Home Shopping Network claims three former executives wrongfully reaped millions from sales of Fast Abs. About 2.5 million consumers, in search of a 'six pack' abdomen, bought the product after seeing informercials.

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  • January 9, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Benderson Development to relocate to Manatee County Ian Black Real Estate chosen to lease Cooper Creek space Beneva, Fruitville center owner plans renovationSouthern Trust Auto Sales buys land for Venice dealership

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  • January 9, 2004
Big Man Off Campus

Former USF professor Clifford M. Gross wants to see that more federally funded research gets spun into moneymaking technology.

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  • January 9, 2004
The Keys to Longboat

The Longboat Key Club's owners want to add new development to some of their property. Have the townfolk put aside past differences?

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  • January 9, 2004
New on the Block

Established Atlanta developer JEBCO Ventures Inc. tackles Sarasota development.

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  • January 9, 2004
Maggi the Contrarian

Julio Maggi will have ample opportunity to tackle tough issues as the 2004 president of the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Association of Industrial Office Properties.

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