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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2007
Re-Creating the Bern's Experience

From the wine cellars to SideBerns to an "epicurean hotel," David Laxer builds on what his father, Bern Laxer, started five decades ago in a strip center.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 2, 2006
Real Estate Briefs

Tampa developer buys Mixon land for villageDevelopers purchase Siesta Key rentalsSBC Development buys land for Long Bar PointeGeorgia company buys Bay Harbor apartmentsThe Lutgert Cos. buys land in EsteroPalm Beach Garden builder buys land in North Fort Myers

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 20, 2016
POWER BROKERS: Franklin Street Real Estate Services

Franklin Street scored with three agents on the Power Brokers list, Chad Rupp for office leasing and Brian Bern and Ryan Derriman for retail leasing.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 20, 2024
Famed high-end steakhouse debuts food truck at women's pro soccer game

Bern's Steak House, along with several other local restaurants, is serving concession food at Tampa Bay Sun FC home games.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 9, 2014
Epicurean hotel hires GM for signature restaurant

A former Ocean Prime and Pollo Grill and Bar general manager will run the hotel's specialty restaurant.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 16, 2024
Tampa company invests over $1M in Bitcoin mining machines

Looking to increase its rate of speed in Bitcoin mining, LM Funding America will purchase 300 Bitmain S21 computing machines for $1.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 22, 2013
Bern's farm to become Wawa, soccer field

Owners of the Waters Avenue site plan to convert it into a soccer field and a WaWa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2010
Clearwater senior-living firm buys Village Place

Clearwater-based real estate firm TJM Properties purchased the 92-unit Village Place assisted living facility on Cochran Boulevard east of Education Way for $6.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • April 9, 2026
Leaders statewide choose iconic Tampa steakhouse as No. 1 place to celebrate

Financial media company MarketBeat polled more than 3,000 professionals on their favorite places to celebrate with colleagues.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2013
Clearwater's TJM Properties sells 15 communities for $200M to Fortress/Holiday

TJM Properties, a company owned by Terence McCarthy, has been accumulating properties since 2001.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 24, 2021
Ice cream shop to open in food-focused hotel

Chill Bros. Ice Cream will open its newest shop in Tampa's Epicurean Hotel.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Brooke Palmer Kuhl, 39

President, RSBP Events

  • Class of 2016
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2014
Former Chico's CEO's art on exhibit

Marvin Gralnick will always be known as one of the founders of Chico's FAS, the women's retailer based in Fort Myers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2004
Poised for Growth

After graduating from high school in upstate New York, Larry Kemick worked as a truck driver and as a night manager for a gas station. When he joined the U.S. Air Force, he worked nights and attended college during the day, studying air conditioning, heat

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2015
A favorite waiter retires

Every downtown has its favorite white-tablecloth restaurant.

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • February 26, 2024
Tampa company shifts directions, invests millions to find and sell bitcoin

LM Funding has invested, and so far made, millions in mining for bitcoin. It has its sights set on much bigger dividends.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • January 2, 2016
Stubborn passion

A Tampa hospitality company rode out the recession. Better days are on the way.

  • Strategies
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • August 12, 2024
Tampa bitcoin company gets $5.6M loan to buy Texas mining facility

LM Funding, a bitcoin-mining company based in Tampa, announced a letter of intent to purchase a mining facility in Texas after securing a $5.6 million loan last week.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2020
Florida gulps down high wine taxes

State lags only Kentucky and Alaska in wine levy per gallon.

  • News
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 8, 2017
CREW Tampa Bay presents Excellence Awards

Commercial Real Estate Women Tampa Bay recently held its 6th annual Excellence Awards event, recognizing group members and others whose deals topped the market in the past year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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