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Manatee–Sarasota

    By
  • Lesley Dwyer
  • July 25, 2024
Italian restaurant chain founder slows down with latest venture

Bar Italia, founder Ricky Doody says, won't get as big as Bravo! Cucina Italiana or Brio Tuscan Grille.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 24, 2024
Forbes: Sarasota Memorial the 7th best employer for women in US

The hospital in Sarasota was one of two health care systems in Florida to make it into the top 100 on the Forbes list of America's best employers for women.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 24, 2024
Sarasota company awarded federal grant to develop special buoys

Loggerhead Instruments was selected to receive $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technology Office.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Andrew Warfield
  • July 24, 2024
Globally known Sarasota rowing park seeks to add indoor multi-sport facility

The indoor facility and boathouse at Nathan Benderson Park will feature dozens of sport courts to attract a variety of athletic tournaments.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 23, 2024
Bradenton police seek to regulate post-midnight alcohol sales

An "after midnight permit" would be required for businesses to sell alcoholic beverages from midnight to 2:30 a.m. in Bradenton, under an ordinance proposed by the Bradenton Police Department.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 23, 2024
National construction giant launches Sarasota team

Suffolk, which is based in Boston and has an office in Tampa, taps a leader for Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 23, 2024
280-unit Manatee apartment complex reflects rental trends

Rents are less than a year from stabilizing, predicts an apartment leasing executive.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 22, 2024
6 builders sign on to new south Sarasota County neighborhood

A new community in Wellen Park has attracted several national homebuilders.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 22, 2024
Study: Construction aggregate prices in Florida are up by 15%

Florida saw price increases below the national average for sand and gravel as well as crushed stone.

  • Florida
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • July 22, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A pair of Hillsborough County apartment sales surpass $200 million in the week's transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 21, 2024
Salvation Army taking over shuttered Venice Books-A-Million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, gyms change hands in Fort Myers, a Boston buyer pays $63 million for apartments in Tampa, and land set aside for conservation sold in Sarasota.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 19, 2024
Speak up or keep quiet: When politics and business intersect

Business owners are often taught to not speak about politics and political beliefs or risk tuning customers away. Some ignore the advice and advocate openly.

  • Florida
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • July 18, 2024
Sarasota County to buy 4.38 acres in Venice for conservation

The purchase price for the property on Lemon Bay Drive is $350,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • July 17, 2024
St. Pete company buys trio of Manatee beachfront restaurants

Ed Chiles bought the first restaurant for Chiles Hospitality in 1979.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • July 17, 2024
Manatee pays $4.4 million for sheriff’s department building

The county has closed on the purchase of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office District 3 building which the department has leased for nearly a decade.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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