• Alternate Text

  • Loading

  • Newsletter
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Health Care
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • Change-Makers
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Reprints
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Health Care
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • Change-Makers
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Reprints
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login

Tampa Bay–Lakeland

    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • January 9, 2025
Macy's makes it official: Underperforming Sarasota, Tampa locations to close

The company plans to close 66 stores this year.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 8, 2025
Rare drive-thru-only Chick-fil-A opens in Pasco, will hire 100

The fast-food chain joins 50 other restaurants serving the Tampa Bay market.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 7, 2025
Pinellas shopping center sells for $5.6 million

A New York company has bought Largo's Central Park Plaza, which counts NAPA Auto Parts and Rent-A-Center as tenants.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 7, 2025
Storied Florida law firm promotes trio of partners in Tampa office

The local partners join the ranks of dozens of promotions at other offices.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 7, 2025
Tampa Bay logistics firm buys company in deal long in the works

Riverview's BlueGrace says its purchase of Pinellas-based FreightCenter "strengthens the logistics ecosystem."

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 6, 2025
Tampa based tech capital organization releases 2024 milestones

Several positive economic impacts across the state were included in Florida Funders' report.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 6, 2025
$30.9 billion London investment firm opens Tampa office

Polar Capital signed a four-year lease at Thousand & One Water Street.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • January 6, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

More than $600 million in Lee County land deals pace the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 4, 2025
4 Gulf Coast metros among top in US for growth in 2024

U-Haul ranked the metropolitan areas that experienced the most growth last year based on one-way trips.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 4, 2025
Tampa's Selmon Expressway gets $4M boost to smooth traffic flow

The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority was awarded a grant to implement new technology that will stem the build up of traffic on the Selmon Expressway.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 3, 2025
Indoor golf franchise opens in Pinellas, Manatee counties

The Back Nine offers golfers the ability to try more than 250 courses using simulators.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • January 3, 2025
CEO on waterfront restaurant acquisitions, despite storms: 'Like a dream'

Greg Powers, the CEO of Beachside Hospitality Group, a company with 15 restaurants in Florida, dishes on its latest portfolio additions.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 2, 2025
World of Beer to focus on growth post-bankruptcy

Tampa-based chain looks to expand after filing for court protection in 2024.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • January 2, 2025
Tampa fintech company announces $45 million investment

Tampa-based fintech company AtlasClear Holdings is starting the year off with a large investment deal.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • January 2, 2025
Polk County bank completes $2 billion acquisition of Texas firm

SouthState Corp.'s assets will grow to about $65 billion as its merger with Independent Bank Group closes.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
« 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 »

Newsletter

Sign up to receive our news in your inbox!
Click to Sign Up

Latest News Business Observer

1
  • July 19, 2025
Real estate agent goes viral with racy jokes, Trump impersonations
2
  • July 18, 2025
57 jobs cut at Polk County manufacturing plant
3
  • July 18, 2025
Unlicensed contractor imprisoned in Sarasota hurricane scam
4
  • July 18, 2025
SWFL personal injury law firm names co-managing partner
5
  • July 17, 2025
St. Petersburg insurer could take on 32,000 Citizens policies in the fall

Contact

  • 1970 Main St.
  • Third Floor
  • Sarasota, FL 34236
  • Phone: 941-362-4848

sister sites

  • Your Observer
  • Jax Daily Record
  • Observer Local News
  • Orange Observer

  • Accessibility Options

more

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Distribution Points
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe

Newsletter

Sign up to receive our news in your inbox!

Click to Sign Up

Verified Audit

  • USPS Periodicals Permit
  • ISSN# 2325-8195
  • as required for Public Notices per F.S. 50.011
  • Auditor's Certification
  • Copyright © 2025 Observer Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved
×
3 Articles Remaining!
Not a Subscriber?

Click here to Subscribe

Already a Subscriber?

Click here to Login

Sign Up for Daily Brief

Start your day with the top Gulf Coast business news you need to succeed.

Sign Up for CRE Central

Stay updated with a weekly roundup of big deals, market shifts and the people shaping commercial real estate from Tampa Bay to Naples.

Smart People Subscribe.

Turn headlines into game plans. The playbook’s right here.
Subscribe to the Business Observer today.

Subscribe Now