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Development

  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 14, 2025
Sarasota company signs lease at The Westin

A builder in Sarasota is moving to the ground floor of the hotel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 11, 2025
Golf club's comeback began the day after Hurricane Milton made landfall

The Carrollwood Country Club in Tampa was hit hard by the hurricane, but within a week players were back on the course. The $2 million rehab project includes valuable lessons in resiliency and redundancy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 10, 2025
City of Venice to buy auto dealership site for nearly $12M

The city plans to relocate its solid waste, recycling and fleet maintenance operations to the site on the U.S. 41 Bypass.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 9, 2025
$247M Fort Myers contractor moves Sarasota-area office

B&I Contractors has relocated its Sarasota-Manatee operations to a larger, more visible facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • June 6, 2025
Developer plans condo complex across from Selby Gardens

A development called 777 South Palm Avenue Condos is employing both the city of Sarasota's attainable housing density bonus and transfer of development rights for a 66-unit building along Mound Street.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 6, 2025
Nearly 80,000-square-foot Lakeland medical building breaks ground

Watson Clinic is building the facility alongside new Orlando Health hospital in the works.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 5, 2025
$174M Bradenton construction company names new CEO and president

NDC Construction has a new executive at the helm, while the owner transitions to chair.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 5, 2025
Lee County opens emergency center expansion ahead of hurricane season

The addition is designed to improve response capabilities.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 4, 2025
Sarasota company expands self-storage footprint to Florida’s East Coast

Baldwin-Howell Properties purchased property in West Palm Beach for a Class A self-storage facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon
  • June 4, 2025
$52M roofing business names two new C-Suite leaders

Tampa-based Westfall Roofing promoted a pair of executives.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • June 2, 2025
Cape Coral shopping center complete, seeks tenants

Construction work on the 29,150-square-foot Shops at Del Mar has finished as brokers look for tenants.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • May 30, 2025
More than 400 downtown Sarasota apartments advance toward approval

Three projects totaling 435 units, 48 priced affordable and attainable, receive partial sign-off from the city's Development Review Committee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • May 27, 2025
Pasco County development getting $27M social club

The club in the 6,000 acre master-planned community, which bleeds into Hillsborough, will include a racket complex, pools and dining.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • May 21, 2025
Fort Myers construction firm founder retires, company now employee-owned

Fort Myers pre-construction, earthwork and infrastructure services firm EHC is transitioning to become an employee-owned company.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King
  • May 20, 2025
Bradenton breaks ground on $35M police headquarters

The new facility will be nearly double the size of the old Bradenton Police Department.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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