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Manatee–Sarasota

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  • Mark Gordon
  • March 28, 2024
Done deal: $3.1 billion acquisition for PGT Innovations closes

Venice window and door manufacturer PGT Innovations, founded 44 years ago, is no longer publicly traded.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Lesley Dwyer
  • March 26, 2024
Former Daiquiri Deck co-owner opens upscale sports bars in Manatee County

The Greyson in Lakewood Ranch offers wall-to-wall TVs, later hours and food from scratch. It's the second of what could be five locations in the region.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Jim Stinson
  • March 25, 2024
Average airfares drop in Tampa Bay, rise slightly at Sarasota-Bradenton

The price of getting somewhere via a plane is going up nationally.

  • Florida
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  • Mark Gordon
  • March 25, 2024
Bradenton sustainable builder makes magazine's global innovation list

Pearl Homes, working on several environmentally friendly real estate and development projects, has been named to Fast Company magazine’s 2024 World’s Most Innovative Companies list.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Beth Luberecki
  • March 25, 2024
Former GE executive, son open $4M restaurant in Sarasota

New restaurant owners Dan Henson and Dan Henson Jr. have no direct hospitality experience. At Arts & Central in Sarasota, they plan to make up for that with passion and a heightened sense of purpose.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Louis Llovio
  • March 24, 2024
Naples golf club for sale, 'best and final offers' encouraged

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Port Charlotte apartments sell for $66.5 million, and an experimental Tampa redevelopment gets a new leasing agent.

  • Florida
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  • Louis Llovio
  • March 21, 2024
Sarasota commercial portfolio on the market for $77 million

The portfolio includes six properties and are all within a 1-mile radius on Cattleman and Fruitville roads.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • March 21, 2024
Lakewood Ranch collectibles firm to buy autograph business

Certified Collectibles Group seeks to meet demand for autograph authentication.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 20, 2024
Downtown Sarasota bank building sells for $5.75 million

The Fruitville Road building is the site of a new Chase bank branch that will consolidate two branches across from the Aster & Links project currently under construction.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 19, 2024
Target to build large-format store near Lakewood Ranch

The retailer has filed for a permit with Manatee County to build a new store, nearly 25,000 square feet larger than its average store, at Marketplace at Heritage Harbour off I-75.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • March 19, 2024
CEO of Venice manufacturer joins board of billion-dollar concrete firm

PGT Innovations President and CEO Jeff Jackson has been appointed to the board of Astec Industries.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • March 19, 2024
Toy executive turns C-suite failure into his greatest success

Purpose and clarity are the bookends for retired toy executive Jamie Gallagher’s four leadership must-dos. In between those are two C's: culture and creativity.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • March 18, 2024
Sarasota mayor: Quit bashing would-be developers, projects

Liz Alpert says people considering investing in the city should be treated with courtesy, even if the project isn't in line with what people think it should be.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Steven Benna
  • March 18, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

Hotel sales in Hillsborough and Lee counties lead transactions for the week of Feb. 5.

  • Transactions
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  • Louis Llovio
  • March 17, 2024
Lakeland shopping centers bring $60 million as part of three-state deal

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a 1,200-acre farm for sale in Charlotte County, $6 million for a community center and up to 1,200 apartments coming to Sarasota mall site.

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