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  • November 20, 2009
Williams Parker law firm adds to Cross Street holdings

The Sarasota-based law firm of Williams Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen purchased a 1,792-square-foot office building on Cross St. in the Burns Court area south of downtown Sarasota for $990,000. The office was best known for housing Kimbrough & Koach.

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  • November 19, 2009
Gateway Bank getting new customers

Gulf Coast banks are getting whacked like a piñata lately, with capital requirements and cease and desist orders falling like candy.

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  • November 19, 2009
Creative Loafing downsizes

It's no secret that newspapers have been hemorrhaging newsroom talent to stay afloat. The market is flooded with veteran reporters and editors who took early buyout packages, or were simply let go, and are now looking for work.

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  • November 19, 2009
Ross tells it straight, and it's not good

Anyone who expected Ross McIntosh to deliver some good news about real estate in Lee or Collier counties at a recent presentation was in for a rude surprise.

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  • November 19, 2009
Prominent attorney opens new practice

For an attorney whose cases revolve around sorting through the messes left behind from financial risk and loss, Burton Wiand has just taken a pretty big gamble: He has left the comfort of working for one of the Gulf Coast's most powerful firms to open a new practice.

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  • November 19, 2009
Stay-at-home state employees

State employees are being put on strict travel rations. Again.

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  • November 19, 2009
PSCU Financial offers iPhone apps

Apple iPhone users are changing a lot of industries, including the world of mobile banking.

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  • November 19, 2009
Real estate brokers predict more gloom

Another day has brought yet another pessimistic survey regarding the beleaguered commercial real estate market.

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  • November 19, 2009
Death, taxes and YouTube

The corporate office of national tax preparation giant Jackson Hewitt is moving into the social networking age through its Sarasota-based technology division.

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  • November 19, 2009
A Big Lift

The plastic surgery industry has been squeezed by the recession, as elective procedures are being shunned. But a Gulf Coast doctor is utilizing an innovative laser procedure to recharge his business.

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  • Jean Gruss
  • November 19, 2009
Open receiver

Developer Kenneth Saundry Jr. spent 31 years in the real estate business in Florida building homes, RV parks, shopping centers and offices. Now, he's reinvented himself as a court receiver to manage distressed properties.

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  • November 18, 2009
County rehabs its business image

DemanData Systems, a Bradenton-based firm with a niche in developing supply chain software for health care companies. DemanData, with 40 local employees and another 60 employees outside Florida, had outgrown its office space and was seeking a new headquarters.

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  • November 17, 2009
Pizzuti attracted to public-private partnership

Pizzuti Solutions, the public-private division of the Columbus, Ohio-based Pizzuti Cos., is working on several new projects with governments in Florida, including two along the Gulf Coast in Dunedin and Naples.

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  • November 16, 2009
Tech start-ups boosted by STAR TEC

Five Tampa Bay-area technology entrepreneurs won support from the STAR Technology Enterprise Center, or STAR TEC, this week and will be getting office space and branding support from the organization.

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  • November 13, 2009
World-class lab hidden in Ybor

Few people would associate Ybor City with the phrase “biomedical research hub.”

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