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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • Laura Lyon
  • June 22, 2024
Tampa insurance firm adds Georgia market

American Integrity Insurance Group, which specializes in residential property insurance, is launching into new territory.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • June 21, 2024
The business of crane safety: From skyscrapers to zoos to toilet paper

The boom in construction over the past several decades has led to a boom in cranes operating across Florida. That, in turn, has boosted a company dedicated to training people how to use cranes safely.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • June 20, 2024
Clearwater tech giant CEO announces retirement

Rich Hume, who led Clearwater tech giant Tech Data through an acquisition and a merger, and then led the combined business, now TD Synnex, through the pandemic, is retiring.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 20, 2024
Report: Insurance, inflation dominate Florida voter concerns

A pro-business lobbying group finds that economic issues matter more than specific candidates to voters.

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • June 20, 2024
Accidental Tampa area wedding venue owner embraces new gig

What started as a pandemic fill-in has become a thriving business for Toni Miller and her family.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • June 19, 2024
Tampa Bay restaurant firm brings new concept to Pinellas golf club

The Feinstein Group, a hospitality company that owns several restaurants in the Tampa Bay area, is bringing its latest concept to the Dunedin Golf Club.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 19, 2024
Resilient bar owner celebrates 25 years of success — and grit

Two-plus decades running bars and nightclubs have taught Joanna Olsen a lot about resilience and persistence. “Never quit," she says. "Just get back in there and conquer."

  • Florida
    By
  • Laura Lyon
  • June 18, 2024
$10B bank based outside Miami names Tampa, Central Florida leader

Mike Nursey joins Amerant Bank as Central Florida market president.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 18, 2024
Notorious Clearwater motel site to become affordable housing development

Construction will officially kick off this week on a four-story apartment building near downtown where the Economy Inn once stood.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 17, 2024
Business Observer 2024 40 Under 40 nominations now open

The Business Observer's annual 40 Under 40 issue celebrates the best of the best of the up-and-comers.

  • Florida
    By
  • Steven Benna
  • June 17, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A pair of hotels in Fort Myers sold for over $40 million to highlight transactions.

  • Transactions
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 16, 2024
Developer pays nearly $18M for 195 acres along I-75 in Punta Gorda

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota tower is approved, four Tampa properties are included in $1.5 billion portfolio sale, and a Cape Coral pizza joint opens.

  • Florida
    By
  • Louis Llovio
  • June 15, 2024
City vote on Rays stadium, development a 'regulatory' but hopeful step

After years of fighting to get a new stadium built in the city, or elsewhere, a St. Pete City Council vote last week is a positive, though tentative, step forward for the team and its fans.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Elizabeth King
  • June 14, 2024
Florida business owner charged with running human trafficking ring

The attorney general highlighted a human trafficking case out of spas in Manatee and Hillsborough counties in pointing to the need for a newly formed state task force.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • June 13, 2024
Minnesota firm closes $570M deal for Tampa elevator company

A $570 million acquisition of Tampa elevator maintenance and repair firm Elevated Facility Services Group has closed.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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