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Manatee–Sarasota

    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • April 9, 2024
Florida Blue appoints new exec for state’s west coast

Phil Lee has more than 20 years of health care experience.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • April 9, 2024
Former Adobe exec joins Roper Technologies board of directors

A software and finance executive joins the board of the Sarasota-based technology company.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Jim DeLa
  • April 8, 2024
Port Charlotte roofing firm owner pleads guilty to tax evasion

A Sarasota woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to avoid paying federal income tax on more than $1 million in earnings from her Charlotte County roofing business.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • April 8, 2024
Tampa, Sarasota wealth management firm adds tax and accounting unit

Graham Capital Wealth Management, a Tampa-based independent Registered Investment Advisor with an office in Sarasota, is adding a tax and accounting services unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Beth Luberecki
  • April 8, 2024
NY concert promoter, exec brings exclusive private gig club to Sarasota

Barry Weisblatt is using his decades of music business exocrine to jumpstart a new business idea: a private concert club.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • April 8, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Tampa Ford dealership sale for $21.7 million highlights transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • April 7, 2024
$548 million hospital to open in Manatee County

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Miami developer borrows $65 million to build Fort Myers apartments, and a retail building in an artsy Sarasota neighborhood is for sale.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • April 5, 2024
Tesla set to open Sarasota store by end of April, employ 50 people

The electric vehicle manufacturer has built a 55,000-square-foot showroom and service center at University Town Center just off I-75.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • April 5, 2024
Debut Sarasota County Anna Maria Oyster Bar looks to hire personnel

Oysters Rock Hospitality is looking to hire people for a variety of positions at a new Anna Maria Oyster Bar scheduled to open this spring in North Port.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Jim DeLa
  • April 3, 2024
Sarasota-area marketing firms announce merger

Sarasota public relations agencies Grapevine Communications and Demand Exposure are merging under the Grapevine banner.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Beth Luberecki
  • April 3, 2024
Ambitious group aims to bring children’s museum to Sarasota

With more and more families moving to the area, a group of women and moms aims to fill a gaping hole in the Sarasota-Bradenton market: a lack of a children’s museum.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 2, 2024
Area resident donates $16M to support Sarasota cancer institute

Susan Milman, whose family was in commercial real estate, has now given at least $21 million to the the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • April 2, 2024
Bankers keep pushing for changes to legal aid funding rule

The Florida Bankers Association says it's hopeful a resolution can be reached over a new rule that affects certain accounts that generate money for legal aid programs.

  • Florida
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 1, 2024
Tickets available for Business Observer's annual Top Entrepreneur event

The Business Observer is set to honor six of the region’s most accomplished entrepreneurs at the annual Top Entrepreneur luncheon, scheduled for May 9.

  • Florida
    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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