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  • August 9, 2019
Strategic Property Partners hires Colliers International for Water Street retail leasing

Strategic Property Partners has hired brokerage firm Colliers International Tampa Bay to oversee retail leasing for Water Street Tampa, a planned $3 billion mix of residences, offices, retail space and hotel rooms

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  • August 8, 2019
Condo community tops off third building, begins sales for fourth

Belleview Place in Belleair, Florida, has begun to sell units in Magnolia, its fourth and final mid-rise condominium building, and topped off the third building, known as Sunset.

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  • August 7, 2019
College expands campus, plans renovations

Galen College of Nursing is growing its presence in the Tampa region, with a 26,026-square-foot expansion of its St. Petersburg campus.

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  • August 7, 2019
Commercial real estate experts join forces to form investment advisory group

Larry Starr and Matt Christian of SVN Commercial Advisory Group in Sarasota, Florida, have teamed up to launch SVN Coastal Commercial Advisors, a commercial real estate investment advisory firm that will serve the Tampa and St. Petersburg markets.

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  • August 6, 2019
Window film maker acquires pair of Canadian distributors

Madico Inc., a Pinellas Park, Fla., manufacturer and distributor of window films, has acquired two Canadian distributors: Courage Distributing Inc. and Window Film Systems.

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  • August 5, 2019
National homebuilder breaks ground on new community

Taylor Morrison, a national homebuilder headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., has broken ground on Esplanade at Wiregrass Ranch, a 55-and-over community in Wesley Chapel, Florida, that will feature 868 single-family and detached villa homes.

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  • August 2, 2019
Ronto Group plans luxury condo tower in Tampa

The Ronto Group of Naples has proposed building a 22-story luxury condo tower near downtown Tampa. Altura Bayshore would contain 73 residences priced at $1 million to over $2.9 million.

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  • August 2, 2019
Commercial real estate investment sale hold steady and stable in first half of 2019

With nearly $1 billion invested in the Top 10 commercial real estate transactions along the Gulf Coast in the first half of the year, the region is showing little sign of losing interest among investors.

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  • August 2, 2019
Just Like Starting Over

Karl "Dee" Maret rose high and fast at Coldwell Banker Commercial, but the travel he endured got to him, and ultimately he decided to take a job with a start-up brokerage close to his home in St. Petersburg.

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  • August 1, 2019
Software marketing firm names new president

PowerChord’s niche is building brand specific, local websites for local networks. Using location-based data and advanced search engine optimization tools, the PowerChord platform converts online browsers into in-store shoppers.

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  • August 1, 2019
Investment firm lures corporate M&A exec for new role

Family-owned private investment firm Weatherford Capital named David Seider, who previously ran merger and acquisition execution for Lakewood Ranch-based Roper Technologies, vice president.

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  • July 30, 2019
Golf entertainment venue to open second location in region

The St. Petersburg location will open in 2020.

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  • July 30, 2019
Region wins $7.5M grant for high-tech business incubator

A new state-of-the-art business incubator designed for technology and advanced manufacturing startups is coming to St. Petersburg, courtesy of a $7.5 million federal investment.

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  • July 29, 2019
Leading area human resources outsourcing firm finds buyer

CoAdvantage, a Tampa-based human resources outsourcing firm, has been sold.

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  • July 26, 2019
Cybersecurity tech firm expands in Utah, locally

ReliaQuest, a Tampa, Florida-based cybersecurity company, has opened a new technology center in Salt Lake City and expanded its corporate headquarters to better house its growing workforce in Tampa.

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