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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • November 8, 2019
Maryland company buys Tampa office and industrial complex

A Timonium, Md.-based company acquired the Park 6 office and industrial complex in Tampa, which had once been part of the Tri-County Business Park

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • November 8, 2019
Frontier selling vacant Clearwater office building

Frontier Communications has hired CBRE to sell a vacant four-story office building in Clearwater it acquired in 2016 when buying Verizon land lines in Florida.

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  • November 7, 2019
Locally based bank expands leadership team with four new hires

St. Petersburg, Florida-based Freedom Bank has grown its leadership team with four strategic hires in several areas of the locally owned and headquartered institution.

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  • November 6, 2019
Ahead of spring opening, hotel names general manager

Tampa, Florida-based McKibbon Hospitality has named John Loute general manager of the SpringHill Suites by Marriott, slated to open in downtown Lakeland in spring 2020

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  • November 5, 2019
Tourist attraction, on brink of expansion, appoints new CFO

The Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida, has hired Richard “Dick” Regan as CFO. His appointment comes soon after the hiring of Darryl Connors in the newly created role of chief business officer.

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  • November 4, 2019
Area builder awarded contract for St. Pete Pier attraction

GATES Construction has been awarded the contract to build a Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille at the new St. Pete Pier, set to open in spring 2020.

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  • November 1, 2019
In wake of sale, software firm makes two acquisitions

Tampa, Florida-based business automation software firm ConnectWise has acquired Continuum and ITBoost and entered into a strategic partnership with Webinfinity.

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  • November 1, 2019
Carr joins Colliers' Tampa investment services team

Capital markets veteran Paul Carr has joined Colliers International's Tampa capital market team after stints with Cushman & Wakefield and Trammell Crow Co.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • November 1, 2019
Freezer space is catching fire

With new grocery chaIns, restaurants and other users in the market, refrigerated and freezer space is poised to gain momentum along the Gulf Coast as never before.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • November 1, 2019
A Crowdfunded Castille

Feldman Equities of Tampa took a distinctly different path --both geographically and in regards to financing -- in making its latest office building acquisition in the St. Petersburg suburban market of Gateway, by using a crowdfunded platform

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • November 1, 2019
Virginia firm buys St. Petersburg apartments for $85 million

General Services Corp.'s $85 million deal for the Courtney at Bay Pines' apartments in St. Petersburg brings its Florida multifamily rental portfolio to a dozen properties.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • November 1, 2019
Tampa company adds to net lease portfolio

Generation Income Properties has nearly doubled the value of its net-lease portfolio with the purchase of a pair of office buildings in Virginia for $19 million

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  • October 31, 2019
Builder opens second community in new waterfront neighborhood

WCI has unveiled Inlet Shore in South Tampa’s Westshore Marina District.

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  • October 30, 2019
Tech giant acquires software firm to accelerate growth

Clearwater, Florida-based Tech Data has agreed to acquire Herndon, Va.-based DLT Solutions, a software and cloud solutions company that serves government and public-sector clients at the federal, state and local levels.

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  • October 29, 2019
In wake of expansion, fast-growing online training firm names new CFO

Vector Solutions, a Tampa, Florida-based online training firm, has hired Scott Rosenberg as its new CFO.

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