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The Hospitalist

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July 22 hearing set for planned Hoover Boulevard development that will bring 392 apartments and 16 townhouses to South Tampa neighborhood

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In response, the SMH health care system plans to name the facility after the family who donated the gift.

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To succeed in the new home workplace, some key steps are to make it seem less like...home.

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While luxury is the hottest, all price points are riding high in Naples.

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A trio of well-connected Sarasota business executives, over lunch one day in 1982, decided they could no longer stay quiet against what they considered an unfriendly business environment. They specifically geared up to contest a proposed two-year moratorium on new construction.

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