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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • Laura Lyon
  • March 27, 2025
Geico to open Tampa office, create 1,000 jobs

National insurance giant Geico is firming up its presence in Tampa Bay.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 27, 2025
Polk County storage facility sells for $10.2 million

A California owner of self-storage centers bought the newly built Winter Haven property.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Denise Federer
  • March 27, 2025
Good leaders need emotional management skills, not just technical know-how

The key to emotional management is to show, above all else, courage.

  • Advice
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 26, 2025
Rays get borrowed stadium ready for Opening Day

After an offseason focused on stadium negation and ownership, the team has a few days to get ready for 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 26, 2025
Legoland part of $90M indoor roller coaster project

Legoland Florida’s parent company, Merlin Entertainments, recently announced the construction of an indoor roller coaster — a first for the company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 26, 2025
5 years later, Gulf Coast executives look back at managing through COVID

On the anniversary of the COVID, several business leaders from a wide swath of fields discuss the decisions they made, their worries and their early response to the pandemic in 2020.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 25, 2025
Tampa-based AI mortgage platform surpasses $5B in loans

More than 11,000 loans have processed since Toorak Capital Partners launched the platform.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 25, 2025
South Florida investor buys 18-building portfolio in Pinellas for $60M

Basis Industrial bought the buildings located across business parks in Largo and Clearwater.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 24, 2025
Polk County LG Electronics building sells for $50 million

The 348,740-square-foot Building 4 in the Lakeland Commerce Center is leased to the South Korean company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 24, 2025
New $18M Lakeland hospital emergency department complete

Lakeland Regional Health's 24,000-square-foot freestanding location is now accepting patients.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 23, 2025
Maryland buyer pays $72M for housing near Florida Gulf Coast University

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an insurance company takes more space in Tampa, a Fort Myers company plans to build homes, and a major Sarasota project gets a big loan.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 22, 2025
Tampa investment firm surpasses $1 billion in assets

The milestone comes after closing a second round of funding.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • March 21, 2025
Tampa-based Coca-Cola bottler president to retire

Leadership changes are taking place at different points this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon, Elizabeth King, Laura Lyon
  • March 21, 2025
Top 50 contractors from Polk to Collier County surpass $9B in annual revenue

The Business Observer's list of the largest contractors in the business.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • March 20, 2025
Tampa company named official water of Major League Baseball

A portfolio of regional spring and purified water brands belonging to Tampa's Primo Brands has been named the Official Water of Major League Baseball.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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