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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 23, 2016
Think Big to get Big

A strategy shift that began as far back as spring 2015 at Tampa-based Garden Light LED, which designs, engineers and manufactures architectural and outdoor lighting, could produce big results in 2017.

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  • March 1, 2017
Luxury home sells for $4.6M, sets new mark

Sale is one of three area non-waterfront homes to surpass $4 million in the last 15 months.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 17, 2017
Data snapshot: Head of the class

Companies across multiple industries spent $2.17 billion defending class action lawsuits in 2016.

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  • August 18, 2017
Donut chain to make Florida debut in region

Site will also include a Boneyard BBQ.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 8, 2017
Row your boat

Sarasota lawyer will be voice of rowing championship

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 5, 2017
Naples firm plans 563-acre Charlotte development

In the wake of its $6.5 million purchase of a 563-acre tract in Punta Gorda, Lely Development Corp. intends to start work on a project that could contain as many as 2,400 residents and hundreds of thousands of commercial square feet at completion.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Arleen Hunter, 39

Director of Development Services, City of Bonita Springs

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2013
Feld focuses on long-term

Executives with Feld Entertainment, the company behind one of the most notable economic development projects in Manatee County over the last decade, are all about 20/20 vision.

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  • July 4, 2014
Benderson Development moving forward with Siesta Promenade project

Benderson Development, one of the two firms behind the mega mall planned at the University Town Center, has begun the initial pitch for a hotel and shopping center on U.S 41 near the entrance to Siesta Key.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 4, 2014
Snell Isle apartments sell for $32 million

Cleveland-based property management firm Burton Carol Management LLC purchased the 272-unit Snell Isle Luxury Waterfront Apartment Homes for $32 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2014
Former bankers gobble up tasty firms

Apparently there really is life, and a sweet one at that, after banking.

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  • July 18, 2014
Atlanta's Cortland Partners pays $78M for Island Walk, Gallery at Bayport II, land

Cortland Partners purchased two waterfront apartment complexes and vacant land from UDR Inc. for a total of $78.43 million. The Atlanta-based multifamily company purchased the 400-unit Island Walk apartments for $50 million and 277 of the 320 condominium units in the Gallery at Bayport II for $28.43 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 8, 2014
Firm seeks to leave nest

Successful area entrepreneur Brian Weiner and his wife recently experienced a parental rite of passage: Their daughters are either professionals or in college.

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  • September 5, 2014
Growth firms show mettle

The Gulf Coast is well represented among a list of 50 second-stage companies on the rise compiled by GrowFL, a statewide economic development program.

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  • January 27, 2014
Former attorney pleads guilty in $28.3M scheme

Case includes two outpatient rehab facilities on the Gulf Coast.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2014
Luxury retail pops up to fill void

Marilee Roberts sells exotic, handcrafted jewelry imported from Italy — a gig that so far, over two years, hasn't involved morphing into a commercial real estate landlord.

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  • May 30, 2014
In Memoriam: Al Austin 1929-2014

Longtime area developer Dick Beard reminisces about Al Austin.

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  • June 5, 2014
Mattamy Homes buys Thomas Ranch for $86.25M

Mattamy Homes has purchased the 9,650-acre Thomas Ranch property from Thomas Enterprises for $86.25 million. Vanguard Land, a Sarasota real estate development and investment firm, will be a minority partner in the property and will provide strategic planning and direction for Thomas Ranch.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 13, 2014
Firm strikes back against lawsuit

Executives at Clearwater-based insurance firm HCI Group aren't taking the standard approach to the threat of a potentially damaging shareholders' lawsuit.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2013
Anti-regulatory crusaders score victory

A lawsuit that challenges the controversial $50 minimum fare rule for every limo and luxury sedan ride in Hillsborough County will move forward.

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