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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 3, 2019
Specialty grocer sets grand opening for latest store in area

Sprouts Farmers Market has scheduled a Jan. 16 grand opening for its Clearwater store, located at 23656 U.S. Highway 19 N., beginning at 7 a.m.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 3, 2019
Condo community sells for $10M, will become student housing

Park Place, a 92-unit condominium community located at 3400 Fletcher Ave., directly across from the University of South Florida’s Tampa, Florida, campus, has been sold for $10 million to a developer who plans to turn it into student housing.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 2, 2019
Health care system makes name change official

Florida Hospital facilities across the state have officially transitioned to the AdventHealth name and brand as part of a plan announced last year by the hospital network’s parent company, Adventist Health System, based in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 2, 2019
Discount carrier launches nonstop route to Canada

Discount carrier flair Airlines has begun to offer direct flights from St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport in St. Petersburg, Florida, to Winnipeg International Airport in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 28, 2018
Apartments dominate, but resorts rise

This year's top commercial real estate sales differed from recent years past in that resorts topped the list in each of the three Gulf Coast submarkets

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 28, 2018
Top commercial real estate deals for 2018 in Tampa Bay

A high-end resort topped the list of commercial real estate sales in the Tampa Bay area in 2018, but significant office sales and apartment projects also cracked the top five transactions list.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 21, 2018
Adaptive Reuse

In an example of adaptive reuse, Transwestern Development Co. intends to revamp the former Golf Club at Bridgewater in Lakeland into a 1 million-square-foot industrial park aimed at e-commerce tenants.

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 20, 2018
Business booster group appoints leader

Effective Jan. 1, Lynda Remund will be the new president and CEO of the Tampa Downtown Partnership in Tampa, Florida, succeeding Christine Burdick, who stepped down in December 2017.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 19, 2018
Developer breaks ground on $14M clubhouse at new community

Del Webb, a brand affiliated with Atlanta-based homebuilder PulteGroup Inc., has begun construction of a 19,000-square-foot clubhouse at its 55-plus Bexley community in Land O’Lakes, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 18, 2018
Cosmetic surgery product supplier names new CFO

Bovie Medical Corp., a Clearwater, Florida-based maker of medical supplies and devices for cosmetic surgery practices, has hired Tara Semb as chief financial officer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 17, 2018
Concert promoter names new head of regional operations

Live Nation Entertainment has appointed Neil Jacobsen president of its Tampa/Orlando, Florida, concerts division.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 14, 2018
Long-serving CEO of tech industry consortium to retire

Global Technology Distribution Council CEO Tim Curran plans to retire from the St. Petersburg, Florida-based organization in January after leading it since 2002.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 14, 2018
q&a: Julia Silva Rettig

"Last-mile distribution" is shaking up the industrial real estate industry, and causing investors to look twice at older, smaller properties that are close to urban centers and could be retrofitted for today's logistics firms

  • Commercial Real Estate
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • December 14, 2018
DeSota could garner $80 million in sale

The forthcoming sale of the 10-story DeSota apartments in downtown Sarasota could set a record for the market for multifamily deals when it trades, as is anticipated early next year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 14, 2018
Kolter Group’s long-range focus influences Florida projects

Kolter Group has become one of Florida's most prolific real estate developers since shifting its operations from Toronto to the Sunshine State, with projects from Tampa to Fort Myers.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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