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Development

  • By Elizabeth King
  • May 2, 2024
Freestanding ER headed to south Sarasota County

The $31 million facility called Wellen Park Emergency will be open 24 hours a day.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • May 2, 2024
$40M private aviation facility breaks ground at SRQ

Sheltair is building a terminal and hangars at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • April 30, 2024
Report: Build-to-rent boom targets Tampa, Sarasota-Bradenton and Lakeland

Construction is soaring in the Sunshine State, where four metros landed among the top 20 for single-family home projects being built for rental properties.

  • Florida
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • April 30, 2024
Sarasota architecture firm chosen as partner in performing arts center project

Italy-based Renzo Piano Building Workshop has named Sweet Sparkman as architect of record on the new Sarasota Performing Arts Center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • April 29, 2024
Entertainment venue and new towers coming to Water Street Tampa

The 56-acre — and growing — mixed-used development just outside downtown Tampa is expanding as the developer looks to lure expanding companies.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • April 20, 2024
Roofing company gives high school students taste of industry

Sutter Roofing hosted students from Riverview High School to show them "there is another path" besides college, one staffer says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • April 17, 2024
County OKs 93-acre Sarasota Square mall redevelopment project

Last-minute height reduction of apartments secures enough Sarasota County Commission votes to transform the mostly vacant mall into an upscale lifestyle town center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon
  • April 17, 2024
Texas company buys 75-employee SWFL-based engineering firm

A Texas engineering and consulting services company has acquired GradyMinor, a civil engineering firm with two Southwest Florida offices and 75 employees.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Jay Heater
  • April 17, 2024
Sarasota brewery readies third location and second in Lakewood Ranch

With a "nothing ordinary" kind of menu and a customer-first beer selection, Big Top Brewery has big plans for location No. 3.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • April 16, 2024
Developers pay $102 million for Naples waterfront condo community

The South Florida developers plan to build 45 units less than a mile from where the Naples Beach Club is undergoing a major redevelopment.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Jim DeLa
  • April 15, 2024
Developer plans pair of boutique condo projects in downtown Sarasota

V.J. Chukkapalli, who splits his time between Colorado and Longboat Key, also bought a Siesta Key hotel for $5.4 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • April 11, 2024
6M-square-foot Ybor City waterfront project picks up first key approval

The Darryl Shaw-backed project will bring a hotel, offices and 4,700 residences along with a boardwalk with retailers and restaurants.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • April 10, 2024
California firm buys Tampa Bay construction, engineering firm

Apollo Construction & Engineering Services, a Hillsborough County-based general contractor focusing on industrial, commercial and institutional projects, has been acquired.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • April 9, 2024
USF architecture professor’s firm opens first US office in Tampa

German architecture firm JSWD is expanding into the United States with an office in a former retail space previously occupied by Sorrento Sweets.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jay Heater
  • April 1, 2024
East Manatee County golf-hotel-residential project underway

COVID-19 delayed but didn't derail a unique golf-resort project in one of the fastest growing parts of the region. "This (area) is where everything is happening," the project executive says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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