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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • July 13, 2012
Return to last resort

The new head of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Barry Gilway, has a monumental task in sharply reducing the state insurer's size and risk. It would be a nice legacy.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 18, 2011
Why don't we do what we know we should?

What makes so many of us resistant to making changes in our behavior that we intuitively know could lead to greater success in our lives?

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 23, 2012
A Better Position

A Naples technology startup didn't get the venture capital funds it sought in 2008. But that turned out to be a blessing.

  • Strategies
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 16, 2021
Hey Joe: Take your mandate and shove it

The president’s mandate to require businesses with more than 100 employees to be vaccinated is a farce, hypocritical and destructive — just another day of Joe Biden incompetence and tyranny.

  • Opinion
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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • April 28, 2021
Economic development official talks about what works— and what doesn’t

While lamenting some deals that got away, one of the region’s elder statesmen of economic development, Mike Meidel, reflects on his decades in the game — and where the state and region can improve.

  • Florida
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • December 25, 2020
Social entrepreneur shifts to virtual events with impact amid pandemic

Going from in-person to virtual won't stop Shannon Rohrer-Phillips from sticking to her big-picture goal: crafting an event with impact.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2020
Philanthropist, businessman, matched kindness with integrity

Stanley Kane built a billion-dollar business before engaging in decades of philanthropy in Sarasota.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 15, 2020
Game On

The 2020 class of 40-under-40 winners shares a key trait: they never give up.

  • Class of 2020
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 29, 2019
Firm uses virtual reality to solve real-world construction woes before they occur

Architects at Sarasota-based Carbon Design & Architecture created Digital Punch, a virtual reality program that allows developers and builders to see and fix design flaws before ground is broken.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 17, 2020
Long-stalled Murdock Village to get new life as Westport

Kolter Group aims to build hundreds of homes and Private Equity Group apartments, hotel rooms at long-stalled Murdock Village property in Charlotte County

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 8, 2020
Flood insurance firm grows 366%, hits $7M in sales

An opportunity to build a startup insurance firm into a national brand, shortly after leading a bank to a lucrative sale, is the just-right fit for this move-fast entrepreneur.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 8, 2022
Property insurance market crisis looms over Florida

High litigation fees are public enemy No. 1 in the complex marketplace, say multiple industry leaders and officials.

  • Insurance
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 22, 2019
Miller says JLL operates with "best-in-class" people

Brent Miller leads commercial real estate brokerage company JLL's Tampa operations, where he leverages considerable resources and what he calls "best-in-class" people.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 31, 2018
Skin deep: Renovation brings the past to life

Clearwater, Florida-based lighting manufacturer Zaniboni Lighting has spared no expense on the renovation of its headquarters, which just so happens to be the ancestral home of the Clearwater police and fire departments, a building that dates back to 1928

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 10, 2017
Q&A | Ron Wheeler

Ron Wheeler is the chief executive officer of Sembler Co., a firm that over the course of its more than 50-year history has developed more than 325 projects containing more than 27 million square feet of mostly retail real estate throughout the southeastern U.S. and Puerto Rico.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 12, 2017
Stars aligned

Charlotte County is poised to become the next real estate mecca along the Gulf Coast, thanks to a handful of rejuvenated projects.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 11, 2013
Corporate Report: Oct. 11

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 24, 2014
The M word

Bonita Springs enacted the nuclear option of growth management: a development moratorium. As the recession fades, the familiar development battles pitting anti-growth activists against developers reemerge.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 4, 2014
A bellwether project

A 300-unit condominium project in downtown Naples is a bellwether real estate project for the region. Its success may usher in a new era for condo development in Southwest Florida.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 13, 2014
Call the Roll

Every morning at dawn, employees of a moving company gather for a meeting before climbing into their trucks. You may be surprised that they don't talk too much about business.

  • Strategies
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