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  • December 29, 2017
DataSnapshot: Promising profits

Small business net profit margins on the rise.

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  • January 5, 2018
Game On

West Villages comes roaring into 2018.

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  • January 12, 2018
Floridays still standing with Ovation

When the new 162-room Art Ovation Hotel held a preview event in mid-December in advance of opening early next month in downtown Sarasota, press reports left out one prominent Gulf Coast player.

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  • January 29, 2018
Investors pump $400K into germ-killing business

Vital Vio is the fourth company in which Tamiami Angel Fund III has invested.

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  • October 11, 2013
Boston's WS Development buys Hyde Park Village

The price equated to $169 per square foot.

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  • August 7, 2014
Former Google engineer to lead Voalte Labs

Fast-growing mobile health care communications firm launches new unit.

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  • September 5, 2014
Frontier Communities buys Bay Point Villas

Silver Spring, Md.-based Frontier Communities purchased the 136-unit Bay Point Villas Apartments, formerly known as the Pinellas Point Apartments, for $4.8 million.

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  • September 12, 2014
Unique startup aims to cool off airplanes

Bradenton-based Verde GSE plans to hire 14 employees over the next five years.

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  • February 17, 2014
Pirates buy Bradenton eatery for expansion

The team plans to add parking spots on the property.

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  • February 21, 2014
William Warren Group buys, rebranding Lock Tite Self Storage

The price equated to $95 per square foot.

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  • May 2, 2014
Bilmar Beach Resort sells for $16.4M

Clearview Hotel Capital LLC and William Harris Investor partnered to buy most the units, amenities and operations of the beachfront resort.

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  • August 26, 2016
'Brilliant with the basics'

Wall Street analysts credit a sales resurgence at the Olive Garden — a new breadstick recipe helped — with being at the forefront of the so-far successful corporate turnaround at Darden Restaurants.

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  • September 19, 2016
Blockbuster acquisition catapults tech giant into new markets

Tech Data will enter the Asia-Pacific market.

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  • June 29, 2016
Chico's rebuts investor

The board battle at Chico's FAS took another turn Wednesday as the women's retailer accused a shareholder of a “self-serving proxy contest.”

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  • July 1, 2016
Chico's reality show

Corporate proxy battles are usually fought behind the scenes in boardrooms with sparse details buried in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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  • March 18, 2016
Benderson sticking by Stickney Point plan

Despite the area's economic revival — now five years in the making — the 25-acre property at U.S. 41 and Stickney Point Road in Sarasota County has remained fallow.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • November 14, 2014
Canadian investment firm, local group buy Park at Coventry apartment

A joint venture of Montreal-based Rosdev Group and an affiliate of Reuven Oded-led investment group Carolyn Corp. purchased the 320-unit The Park at Coventry apartment for $16.7 million.

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  • December 5, 2014
Fast-growth investment firm to hire 75 people

Global Financial Private Capital will move out of its downtown Sarasota offices.

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  • January 30, 2015
Cassidy family of Winter Haven buys 70 acres in Ruskin for home development

The Cassidy family purchased 70 acres east of U.S. 41 and south of 19th Avenue Northeast in three transactions for a combined $3.45 million.

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  • February 20, 2015
Creative craft

Research, on both the candidate and the client, is essential when filling tough-to-fill spots.

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