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Polk County Industrial Market

Distributors, logistics firms and e-commerce purveyors alike have flocked to Polk County because of its central Florida location, sophisticated highway network that connects Interstate 4 with Interstate 75 and Interstate 95 and its ability to reach roughly 18 million customers within a 24-hour drive.

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No longer vacant

A site that sat empty for more than a decade has new life, with a $60 million project.

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  • January 27, 2017
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Liberty Group is altering both the way, and the where, it does business — starting with land deals in its own backyard.

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  • January 26, 2017
Disney executive joins Tampa tech leader

Kim Porter is a boomerang employee for Mad Mobile.

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  • January 25, 2017
New Tampa insurance exec ran Sears Auto, stomped bugs

Joe Finney recently joined the executive team at Baldwin Risk Partners.

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  • January 24, 2017
Real estate firm ends 2016 with $102M in deals

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT completed a series of acquisitions late last year.

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  • January 22, 2017
Former pro soccer star scores plum real estate post

Scott Garlick initially joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2007.

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  • January 20, 2017
Shift in progress

Few Gulf Coast industries have undergone as much change -- or expansion — over the past two decades as commercial real estate.

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  • January 20, 2017
Bank promotes exec to chief lending officer

Timothy Dixon has been in banking for more than 35 years.

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  • January 19, 2017
WellCare looks to insurance giant for new state exec

Lee Bowers was most recently a vice president at Humana.

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  • January 18, 2017
Walmart opens first Florida training academy in region

The facility, in Hudson, is one of only 200 such centers planned nationally.

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  • January 17, 2017
Texas bank with nearly $5B in assets targets Tampa

Woodforest National Bank appoints Willy Gomez to Florida leadership post.

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  • January 15, 2017
Tampa woos new headquarters, plus 150 jobs

BlueLine Associates is expected to invest $2 million in the region.

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  • January 13, 2017
Bank raises $10M, seeks new clients

St. Petersburg-based Freedom Bank raised capital from existing shareholders.

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  • January 13, 2017
Tampa apartment tower sells for $88 million

In what is believed to be the Gulf Coast's largest urban multifamily sales of the past year, a New York firm has acquired the Skyhouse Channelside tower for $88 million.

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