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  • By Elizabeth King
  • January 2, 2025
Longboat Key-based Rumble receives $775M strategic investment

The video -sharing and cloud services platform Rumble received funds from a cryptocurrency company that will fuel growth and allow for a self tender offer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • January 2, 2025
Polk County bank completes $2 billion acquisition of Texas firm

SouthState Corp.'s assets will grow to about $65 billion as its merger with Independent Bank Group closes.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • January 2, 2025
Naples skin care firm seeks $5M to fuel breakout year in 2025

The company, which started out in a 300-square-foot store, turned 15 years old in 2024.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Laura Lyon
  • January 1, 2025
PNC plans for surge of new branches, despite industry's digital push

Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank has high hopes for the Tampa Bay and Florida market in 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • January 1, 2025
Reforms to new condo safety law may be coming

The Florida Legislature is expected to take up changes and tweaks to a safety law passed to prevent a repeat of the Surfside condo collapse in 2021.

  • Florida
  • By Laura Lyon
  • December 31, 2024
Arizona builder moves ahead on master plan despite tumultuous 2024

Taylor Morrison is fulfilling a tall order of 3,000 homes across multiple counties.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • December 30, 2024
New and expanding supper clubs to take a bite out of the industry

The trend of supper clubs promises a different way to dine in Tampa Bay next year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • December 30, 2024
Tampa Bay Rays enter 2025 with more questions than answers

After a tough 2024, the baseball team faces major decisions — and problems — in the new year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • December 29, 2024
Hyatt Regency Sarasota to be demolished in 2025 for mixed-use development

The current hotel will be razed and two towers built in its place on Boulevard of the Arts.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • December 28, 2024
Café L'Europe to become The Café on St. Armands in 2025

An upscale eatery on St. Armands Circle will transform into a Mediterranean cafe in the new year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • December 26, 2024
Interest in padel increases in Sarasota, major tournament coming in 2025

"Word is definitely out there" about padel, says Ellie Berdusco, manager of sports facility The Pad Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • December 26, 2024
Transformative Ybor project is going full throttle, despite headwinds

Darryl Shaw spent the year seeing projects come to life and isn’t done yet.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • December 25, 2024
Foot Locker quietly moves ahead with relocating HQ from NY to St. Pete

Several months after Foot Locker announced it was moving its global headquarters to St. Petersburg, the details remain a mystery.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • December 24, 2024
Major health care conglomerates are making big investments in Pasco

In 2024, hospital groups bought or built on hundreds of acres of land.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Steven Benna
  • December 24, 2024
Largest commercial transactions in the region per county surpass $1B

Five of the nine largest deals in 2024 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota counties involved multifamily properties.

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