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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • Louis Llovio
  • June 11, 2025
Silver Airways shutters Tampa airport operations, cancels flights

The bankrupt Fort Lauderdale airline has closed down and told passengers to "not go to the airport."

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • 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
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2025
Nominations for Business Observer 40 Under 40 now open

The nomination deadline for the Business Observer's 2025 40 Under 40 issue is Wednesday, July 16.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 10, 2025
Tampa entrepreneur, city leader, educator dies at 60

Gwendolyn Henderson, who was elected to Tampa's City Council and owned a local independent bookstore, died at her home.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 10, 2025
Record passenger traffic — again — at St. Pete-Clearwater airport

The local airport PIE, which lost Canadian service two years ago, sees historic travel numbers for the second consecutive month.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 9, 2025
Giant boat retailer opens pair of new marinas

The company, founded in Clearwater, opened the new facility as higher boat sales pushed revenue up during the second quarter.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • June 9, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $42.2 million multifamily sale and $16.4 million business park sale in Pinellas lead this week's transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 8, 2025
Pasco County affordable housing development brings 360 units, 234 for seniors

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota Starbucks sells, a Polk County Carrabba's is on the market, and Naples apartments are sold.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 6, 2025
Nearly 80,000-square-foot Lakeland medical building breaks ground

Watson Clinic is building the facility alongside new Orlando Health hospital in the works.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    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
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 5, 2025
Downtown Tampa hotel owner borrows $38M

The New York owners of the Aloft Tampa hotel have refinanced the property.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 5, 2025
Ratings firm says regulators give pass to big banks with weak capital ratios

Weiss Ratings disputes the Federal Communications Commission's position on determining a bank's financial soundness.

  • Florida
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 5, 2025
Mental health text service extends reach in Charlotte, Pasco schools

Cope Notes works through micro-interventions

  • 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
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 4, 2025
More St. Pete layoffs after Trump administration cuts youth jobs program

The U.S. Department of Labor has paused Job Corps centers operations nationally leading to the shuttering of a St. Petersburg center and the layoffs.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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