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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • February 7, 2020
CRE forecast remains optimistic for 2020

Continued economic growth in Tampa and throughout the U.S. should propel the commercial real estate industry forward in 2020, PwC Partner Mitch Roschelle says.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • February 6, 2020
Area shipping executive elected president of national industry group

A.R. Savage & Son President Arthur Savage has been elected president of the Association of Ship Brokers & Agents Inc., a ship agency and brokerage industry group that was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York City.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • February 5, 2020
Law firm names successor to retiring COO

Frederick O’Malley will succeed Anastasia Hiotis, who is retiring, as COO of Carlton Fields, a law firm that has an office in Tampa.

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  • February 4, 2020
Beverage firm sells coffee, tea operations for $405 million

Tampa, Fla.-based Cott Corp. has sold its S&D Coffee and Tea division, for $405 million, to North Little Rock, Ark.-based Westrock Coffee Co. LLC.

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  • February 3, 2020
Area law firm elevates two associates to shareholders

The Tampa office of Philadelphia-based Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, a civil defense litigation law firm, has named Samuel Higginbottom and Lindsay McCormick shareholders of the firm.

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  • January 31, 2020
Bank tops $500M total assets milestone

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based First Home Bank, in 2019, surpassed $500 million in total assets for the first time.

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  • January 31, 2020
Silva to lead JLL statewide capital markets team

Julia Silva, a long-time industrial broker with Cushman & Wakefield, will make the transition to capital markets with her new firm, JLL.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • January 31, 2020
Cushman & Wakefield adds high-profile pair to Tampa industrial team

Commercial real estate brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield has added a pair of high-profile industrial agents, Trey Carswell and Lisa Ross, to its Tampa roster

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Brian Hartz
  • January 31, 2020
Jackpot: Builder scores with $750M casino project

Miami-based builder Suffolk-Yates LLC has completed its $750 million renovation and expansion of the Seminole Hard Rock Resort & Casino in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • January 31, 2020
Brennan Investment properties turn super sized

Brennan Investment Group's new speculative distribution facility in Lakeland will measure 1 million square feet. Experts believe that size will become commonplace in the years to come amid technological changes and consumer demands.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • Kevin McQuaid
  • January 31, 2020
What They're Saying: JLL

Commercial real estate brokerage firm JLL says the surging industrial sector in Tampa is expected to continue in 2020, while office development remains in the "peaking phase" of the economic cycle in the region

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • January 30, 2020
Anti-fraud tech firm expands in area, expects to create 20 high-wage jobs

Jacksonville-based Sound Payments, a tech firm that fights fraud at gas pumps and other points of sale, has opened an office in St. Petersburg, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • January 29, 2020
Builder completes work on 15-story luxury apartment building

Moss Construction has finished work on ICON Central, a 15-story luxury apartment building located at 855 Central Ave. in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • January 27, 2020
Area bank, in $6 billion merger, to create Southeast financial giant

CenterState Bank and South State Bank, headquartered in Columbia, S.C., have agreed to an all-stock merger that, if approved, will create the eighth-largest bank headquartered in the Southeast.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • January 27, 2020
Philanthropy executive leaves one area nonprofit for another

Kara Wagner, formerly of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, has joined The Florida Aquarium as chief development officer.

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