Strategies

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Louis Llovio
September 5, 2024

Affordable housing community for seniors boosts St. Pete neighborhood

The site of the former Edward White Hospital, which has been vacant for 10 years, is being transformed into an affordable housing community.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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Beth Luberecki
September 5, 2024

SWFL restaurant week turns into bustling month of revenue gains

Sizzle Dining has grown from a small event to a September celebration — a big impact on the Southwest Florida restaurant industry and one of the largest restaurant week events in the region.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

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Beth Luberecki
September 4, 2024

$80M Naples hotel to target 'nearly' five-star travelers, locals

A Key West investment firm built a high-end hotel on its home turf. A second one is because the company is "intoxicated with the strength of the Naples hospitality market."

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

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Louis Llovio
August 30, 2024

Mall owners turn from new tenants to complete redos

While the future of traditional malls continues to be in flux, new mall owners see the huge pieces of land as an opportunity to reinvent.

Florida

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Elizabeth King
August 27, 2024

Naples Airport leaders float a controversial idea: Moving the airport

The Naples Airport Authority mulls what to do after a study released this summer identified four potential relocation sites.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

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Mark Gordon
August 23, 2024

Legoland Florida president sets sights on new ways to grow market share

The newly minted top executive at Legoland Florida takes on the role just as the hyper-competitive $30 billion amusement park industry begins to show a slight dip in what was a post-COVID surge in attendance.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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Louis Llovio
August 22, 2024

Parent company's economic distress doomed 120-year Badcock furniture

A Texas retailer crushed by inflation, interest rates and more bought a 120-year-old Polk County business in a Hail Mary move. It didn't work out.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

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Lesley Dwyer
August 20, 2024

$25M Sarasota-UTC area furniture store to go big and green

City Furniture will open a 120,000-square-foot showroom in UTC's East District by summer 2025.

Manatee-Sarasota

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Elizabeth King
August 12, 2024

Forget pickleball: Entrepreneur brings indoor padel to Sarasota-Manatee

The Pad Sarasota offers space to play padel, a racket sport that is growing worldwide in popularity.

Manatee-Sarasota

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Louis Llovio
August 9, 2024

With the future secured, Rays make plans, prepare to break ground

The Tampa Bay Rays plan to move forward with the team's new stadium and the 86-acre redevelopment around it after years of trying to work out a deal that would keep the team in town for the long term.