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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 5, 2023
After major delays, Port Charlotte resort restaurants take dinner reservations

Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor has begun booking tables at two restaurants ahead of its planned opening Dec. 15.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 25, 2025
60K-square-foot adventure park opening in Lakewood Ranch

Urban Air Adventure Park is opening Sept. 26 near University Town Center in Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 7, 2022
Tech giant to shutter six California plants, announces 1,400 layoffs

St. Petersburg-based Jabil told California officials it was temporarily closing the plants and laying off employees for a few days around the holidays.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 21, 2023
Trucking company bankruptcy costs state 524 jobs, 116 locally

The most recent slate of job cuts brings the number of layoffs announced across the region in the past week to more than 400.

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 27, 2022
Wedded bliss: 'Shark Tank' darling Honeyfund seeks additional capital

After raking in $1.7 million, Clearwater-based wedding registry website Honeyfund launches a second round of investment.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 5, 2019
Life Storage buys Tampa self-storage center to augment portfolio

Life Storage Inc. purchased a multilevel self-storage facility in Tampa in a deal brokered by SkyView Advisors' Ryan Clark to augment its existing portfolio of Tampa-area properties.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Rachel Stewart, 29

Co-founder, licensed mental health counselor, registered play therapist supervisor, Thrive Therapy

  • Class of 2016
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 22, 2025
American running Parisian library to lead Tampa's history museum

Audrey Chapuis, currently the executive director of The American Library in Paris, has been hired as president and CEO of the Tampa Bay History Center and will start in December.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 15, 2025
Tampa Jewish organization to shutter and sell a campus, lay off 92 people

The Tampa Jewish Community Center & Federation says mounting costs and declining interest is forcing it to close JCC, preschool and assisted living facility.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • March 26, 2026
360-unit apartment complex opens in Pasco County

Verve Luxury Apartment Homes in Wesley Chapel offers 360 luxury one- to three-bedroom apartments between State Road 54 and State Road 56.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2007
A Blossoming Business

The thought of getting bigger once scared Charlie Lenger to death. Guts combined with investments - $1.2 million on in-house, innovative pricing software, for instance - changed all that.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 22, 2025
Rays take next step in sale to Jacksonville homebuilder with MLB approval

The two-decade Stuart Sternberg era of owning the Tampa Bay Rays is coming to a close.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 28, 2012
Stay Simple

A former NBC creative director says marketing a product or service shouldn't be complicated. One key to success: Tear down internal silos — immediately.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 4, 2023
Coconut Point mall adds national retailers as 17-year-old restaurant closes

The Estero outdoor mall announced two retailers will move into the center later this year days after a mainstay eatery announces it is closing.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 6, 2023
Venice neighborhood gains traction with second national homebuilder

The first phase of Lakespur will bring 137 single-family homes to the area.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 25, 2022
Georgia developer buys Punta Gorda land with plans to build apartments

Novare Group will build a 270-unit complex on Sandhill Road in Charlotte County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2014
Two local execs named to CRN 'should know' list

Tech Data's Filippelli and McClure were listed on CRN's 100 People You Don't Know But Should ranking.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 4, 2010
Largo-based tattoo shops get listed on Inc. 5000

You might not think of a tattoo parlor chain making a list of the nation's fastest-growing privately held companies, yet Largo-based Atomic Tattoos has done so.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2010
Trinity offers help with big gift delivery

Online shoppers are often stymied by the cost of getting large or heavy items delivered, no matter how good a deal they get.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2010
Retail research gets firm in big trouble

Tampa-based Retail Intelligence Group LLC probably didn't expect to make national headlines when it was visiting Big Lots Inc. stores and surveying their managers.

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