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Strategies

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  • Beth Luberecki
  • June 23, 2025
SWFL Tex-Mex restaurant seeks new spots in Sarasota, Pinellas

Tacos & Tequila Cantina keeps on pouring more growth. Two keys: prioritizing its staff and offering an affordable menu.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 18, 2025
Amazon executive offers peek at company's site selection process

The global online retailer depends on a vast network of distribution facilites to deliver its wares, but few know what it looks for when picking a site.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Eric Snider
  • June 13, 2025
College preps for digital future with new fintech degree program

Hillsborough Community College officials believe the school's new fintech program will be a big winner — for employees and employers.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Louis Llovio
  • June 11, 2025
Golf club's comeback began the day after Hurricane Milton made landfall

The Carrollwood Country Club in Tampa was hit hard by the hurricane, but within a week players were back on the course. The $2 million rehab project includes valuable lessons in resiliency and redundancy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Mark Gordon
  • June 10, 2025
Trust firm passes 50 employees, $2B in assets on its way to more growth

Even as the pace of growth has increased at Caldwell Trust Co., its leader stands by a core value to grow the right way.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 6, 2025
$300M Tampa project positions Coke Florida for generational growth

Coke Florida has opened a new automated distribution and sales facility on 156 acres in Hillsborough County that simplifies its processes and improves efficiency.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • June 5, 2025
Tampa General, combining tech and high-touch care, leads US in organ transplants

Technology is bringing the normally high costs of transplants down, which has allowed TGH's large transplant team to do more of them.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • June 2, 2025
NBA Hall-of-Famer helps open $37M Bradenton affordable senior housing project

"These are not just apartments. They're homes," said Miami Heat legend Alonzo Mourning.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Beth Luberecki
  • June 1, 2025
Popular Sarasota restaurant week hits milestone, extends to 20 days

Savor Sarasota is celebrating 20 years of showcasing Sarasota County restaurants and bringing in business during a slow month of the year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 30, 2025
Fort Myers adoption of AI technology brings immediate solution

In a future-is-now moment, the city of Fort Myers is embracing artificial intelligence in a big way. More high-tech advances are forthcoming.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • May 29, 2025
Tariffs provide timely opportunity for Palmetto tool manufacturer

Spectrum Custom Molds & Manufacturing has a new headquarters where it has invested in the latest technology at a time when businesses are turning to domestic operations.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 21, 2025
Citrus, land firm dishes on the transition to becoming a developer

The CEO of Alico Inc. told luncheon audience that the Fort Myers company began looking at changing its approach to business long before shuttering its citrus operations this year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • May 19, 2025
Builder: Sarasota city rules make attainable housing concept a 'losing proposition'

The Neal Communities-associated builder says Sarasota made it so difficult to build a small, low-priced community that it's hesitant to tackle similar projects elsewhere.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Beth Luberecki
  • May 12, 2025
Lee nonprofit finds success in finding jobs for young people with autism

An effort to help young adults on the autism spectrum find employment pays off for all parties. The nonprofit behind it hopes more is to come.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Beth Luberecki
  • May 9, 2025
Luxury Naples restaurateurs plan exclusive Japanese, French concepts

Corinne Ryan and Veljko Pavicevic have found Naples to be an ideal fit for their luxury restaurant concepts. One key, says a co-founder: "We stopped hiring and started recruiting."

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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