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Manatee–Sarasota

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  • August 30, 2025
Sarasota-Bradenton, Cape Coral-Fort Myers in national boomtown report

Lakeland joins those two metro areas in the LendingTree analysis.

  • Florida
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 29, 2025
Sarasota big and tall retailer to shutter after nearly 50 years

King James Big & Tall cites competition as its reason for going out of business.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 29, 2025
Hospitality group, with debut in downtown Sarasota, to focus on small restaurants

Ten Tables Hospitality's go-small strategy flips the bigger-is-better mantra in restaurants — without skimping on the guest experience.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 28, 2025
Criminal charges filed against Sarasota County business owner

The owner of the now-defunct company Sash & Sill has been arrested in Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 28, 2025
Helios Technologies adds two leaders to C-suite roles

The company has named a new chief financial officer and chief accounting officer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 28, 2025
Immigration program provides $47M toward Bradenton apartments

EB-5 has been targeted by the Trump administration. But for now, the sometimes-complicated federal foreign investor program is helping to fund an apartment community being built on the site of DeSoto Square Mall.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 27, 2025
Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota County names new CEO

Alison Fraga will join the ELC of Sarasota County in late September.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • August 27, 2025
Once-powerful Sarasota developer Henry Rodriguez reshapes, refocuses life

A go-star in development and politics, Henry Rodriguez now laments the direction his life took. "I was young, influential and making a ton of money," he says, "but I was miserable."

  • Leadership
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 27, 2025
Sarasota gym leaving Mira Mar building for new downtown location

Jefferson Fit will open a new center in October across from Sprouts Farmers Market between Main Street and Fruitville Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • August 26, 2025
2 Tervis veterans buy Osprey store

The retail shop on U.S. 41 is owned by the former Tervis CEO and part of the founding family of the Tervis brand.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Andrew Warfield
  • August 26, 2025
Zenith tower in Sarasota to be razed, replaced with 18-story mixed-use project

Plans include a 96-unit residential tower and 42,000 square feet of commercial space.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 25, 2025
Prominent real estate group joins Douglas Elliman in Sarasota

A Sarasota-Manatee real estate firm is now part of a national brokerage that is expanding its western Florida presence.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • August 24, 2025
Two Sarasota properties sold for redevelopment see 600%, 700% price increases

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Southwest Florida builder is busy, a Tampa Starbucks sells, and a Fort Myers parcel to be redeveloped.

  • Florida
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  • Louis Llovio
  • August 23, 2025
Sarasota real estate firm continues Pinellas expansion

Prominent Sarasota real estate brokerage Michael Saunders & Co. is expanding into the Tampa Bay market with an office in St. Petersburg and a well-known local broker.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Elizabeth King
  • August 22, 2025
SeaPort Manatee installs new security booths

Through a state grant, the Manatee County port has added three new security booths after its old ones were destroyed in Hurricane Milton.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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