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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 29, 2016
Having a ball

A developer sheds the land game for boutique beach hotels, with more than $4 million at stake. Success, says Henry Rodriguez, is all in the details.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • August 10, 2018
Ad agency thrives on innovate or die strategy

Innovation, specifically, has become a necessity in branding and marketing, where big and small players fight for the same work many times. Today Schifino Lee has 22 full-time employees and posted revenue of more than $8 million in 2017. That’s about doub

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • April 29, 2011
Stuck on an Idea

Debra Weisser invented Hem-Eze while looking for a solution to varying pants lengths. After introducing the product on HSN, she's moving into mass marketing with Walgreen's.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 18, 2013
It's not the name that counts; it's the content

GCBR is now the Business Observer.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 5, 2016
Fast pitch

Four early-stage companies pitched their ideas to investors at a Shark Tank-style event in Naples recently. Technology binds them together.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2007
In the Family

The Bellini brothers began ConnectWise as an IT services firm, but now the company also sells its own software that manages IT work.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • October 31, 2022
Transactions: Oct. 25-31

A Sarasota apartment complex deal for nearly $60 million paces this week's transactions.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2010
Premium cigar sellers want break from taxes

Cigars are at the foundation of Tampa's history, but some high-end dealers say they're being singled out unfairly in new efforts to tax tobacco.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 21, 2021
Popular beach city leads state in population loss

Siseta Key is an outlier for the state, and region.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 18, 2021
Airport adds Key West to growing list of destinations

Allegiant will begin service to Key West out of St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport later this year

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 11, 2022
Florida is a national leader in business startups

Florida is a nationwide leader in a surge of new business formations, pacing a growing trend.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2016
Stingy with the Sun

Floridians might love their sunshine, but they sure don't like to share it.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 7, 2017
Hotel trades Hulk Hogan for South Beach

Oxford Capital Group has completed phase one of the Bay Harbor Hotel renovation project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 9, 2017
Make waves

Millions of coastal homes at potential risk of hurricane storm surge damage.

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  • March 31, 2014
Judge rules against hospital

An administrative law judge has recommended denying Lee Memorial's request to build a hospital in South Lee County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 22, 2016
Mine, anyone?

For the second time this year, an ongoing mining operation has been part of a major Southwest Florida land sale.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 12, 2016
MARKET SPOTLIGHT | Collier County Office Market

Like most of the Gulf Coast, the Collier County office market has experienced shrinking vacancies and increased rental rates in the years since the end of the last economic recession, and the first half of 2016 continued that trend.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 20, 2016
POWER BROKERS: Lee & Associates

Lee & Associates, a national commercial real estate firm with more than 50 offices across the U.S., dominated the Power Brokers' Industrial Leasing Brokers category for 2015, capturing four of 13 slots.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 5, 2016
A proper disposal

When Chico's FAS announced it had sold its Boston Proper brand on Jan. 19, investors shrugged.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 9, 2015
Sarasota embraces light regulations on taxis, Uber

A Sarasota city commissioner wanted to avoid over-regulating.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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