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  • November 20, 2009
Sunnyridge Farms buys Plant City warehouse

Winter Haven-based Sunnyridge Farms purchased a 51,000-square-foot warehouse building with refrigerated storage on Jim Johnson Road north of Roberts Ranch Road for $2.9 million.

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  • November 20, 2009
Residential Management Inc. buys Fisherman's Landing

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Residential Management Inc. purchased the 256-unit Fisherman's Landing apartments just north of State Road 582 from Aimco for $14.95 million. The purchase price equated to $53,398 per unit.

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  • November 20, 2009
Fort Myers' Fiber Solutions buys new headquarters

The owners of Fort Myers-based communications contractor Fiber Solutions, purchased the 20,000-square-foot former Metro Plumbing flex building on Metro Parkway north of Crystal Drive for $900,000. The purchase equated to $45 per square foot of total building space.

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  • November 20, 2009
IHOP franchisee buys second Naples location

Sunshine Restaurant Partners, an IHOP franchisee for Florida and Georgia, purchased a 4,050-square-foot former IHOP restaurant building near the intersection of Pine Ridge Road and Whippoorwill Lane for $1.1 million. The purchase price equated to $272 per square foot of building space.

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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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  • 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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