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Manatee–Sarasota

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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • September 7, 2018
Sarasota luxury hotel plans starting to gel

New York investment banker turned developer L. Ron Gray's plans to create a five-star hotel on the site of a Sarasota County-owned parking lot are gelling with new partners, a defined timeline and a set number of rooms.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 6, 2018
Restaurant group to hire over 200 people

Tableseide Restaurant Group will hire 200 people for restaurants from northeast Bradenton to south Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 4, 2018
Well known real estate attorney, partner switches firms

Prominent area real estate attorney Tom Luzier is moving from Dunlap & Moran P.A., where he had been a shareholder, to Williams Parker, where he will be a partner. Luzier has successfully closed more than $1 billion in transactions to date over the past

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 31, 2018
Employees vindicated in trade secrets lawsuit

A Sarasota County judicial magistrate has dismissed a lawsuit against a Sarasota printing company and two individual defendants who were accused of unfair and deceptive trade practices, theft of trade secrets and other counts.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 31, 2018
Gulf Coast hotel sales climb into new territory

The $171 million sale of the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota resort, among other hotels, shows that Gulf Coast lodging properties are gaining in popularity among institutional investors such as real estate investment trusts.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 30, 2018
Real estate group joins brokerage company

Charity & Weiss International Realty was founded in 2006 by owners and real estate brokers Gabriele Charity and Ruediger Weiss.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 29, 2018
Marketing company breaks ground on $3 million headquarters

RSP USA's new headquarters in Bradenton is expected to be finished in spring 2019.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 28, 2018
Airport announces new flights to Philadelphia

Twice-weekly flights to Philadelphia International Airport from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport begin on Dec. 10.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 27, 2018
Nonprofit receives $100K grant for business accelerator, cowork space

Michael Meerman will head up the Emerging Initiatives Grant awarded to CareerSource Suncoast with a business accelerator and cowork space.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 25, 2018
CEO steps down, company announces successor

Brian Jellison has decided to step down from his role as Sarasota-based Roper Technologies president and CEO to focus on his health.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 24, 2018
Bromley may hire Concord for Midtown Tampa hotel project

Bromley Cos. is negotiating to add Concord Hospitality Enterprises of Raleigh, N.C. to its roster of partners at its $500 million Midtown Tampa project

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • August 24, 2018
Commercial Question of the Week

Officials from CBRE, Skanska USA, Lantower Residential and Ryan Cos. weigh in on whether a labor shortage or government tariffs pose a bigger threat to the current commercial real estate growth cycle in Florida.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 23, 2018
Engineering group announces leadership promotion, new hires

Karins Engineering Group promoted John Bonacci to vice president of engineering.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 22, 2018
Foundation announces new CFO

Christine Stobaugh, the new CFO of Gulf Coast Community Foundation, was most recently CFO of Grain Management.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 21, 2018
New bank raises $20 million locally

Gulfside Bank CEO Dennis Murphy says funds have come from about 225 area investors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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