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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 16, 2018
Virtual reality changes the way firms market real estate

Virtual and augmented reality is changing the way commercial real estate is designed, built, marketed and even furnished.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Dan Ping |
  • July 29, 2011
Huge Fun

Orlando becomes the first U.S. city to top 50 million visitors, thanks in part to Harry Potter and cheap flights. Those visitors are fueling expansion, and local businesses.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 18, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

RPM Exotics hits governmental snagHeritage Harbour developer buys land from dairy farmParsons Insurance buys office buildingMichael Saunders & Co. records $2.57 billion in sales HMA buys Venice hospitalInvestors buy Indian Beach apartments

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 23, 2011
Strengthening Demand

Tony Lapi is CEO of Rochester Resorts and Tween Waters Inn in Captiva.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 12, 2019
Publix confirms plan to open in revamped Sarasota plaza

Publix Super Markets Inc. confirms for the first time plans to open a new store in what will be a revamped Town & Country Plaza in Sarasota

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 15, 2022
Star investor headlines groundbreaking for new innovation center

ARK Investment Management's Cathie Wood and local officials broke ground for the new ARK Innovation Center project in St. Petersburg.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 28, 2014
Smokin' market

The market for commercial warehouse space could get a boost if voters legalize medicinal marijuana in November. That's just one of the reasons real estate executives are upbeat on the sector.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 30, 2015
Tumble forward

The new digs for one of the largest manufacturers in the region deftly combines form with function.

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 28, 2023
Tampa General Hospital, USF team up to add nurses to workforce

Tampa General invests $4.4 million into the University of South Florida's nursing school to enhance training.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 21, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Lee County 20/20 buys 36 acresFort Myers investors buy former Taco BellSeneca Petroleum buysTre Amici buildingSpirit Finance company buys Fort Myers buildingWest Palm developer buys retail plazaBradenton investors buy All U Can StorageLux-Art Silks builds new warehouseSarasota's Jump Dance relocates to Lakewood RanchWeichels, Fullers buy McSwiggins Pub buildingWeichels, Fullers buy McSwiggins Pub buildingSun Development & Management Corp. plans SpringHill SuitesHirschy, Servant investors redevelop bowling alleyEntrepreneurs buy apartments

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2007
A different approach

Developer Leonard Gardner is asking for density increases and city funding to bring workforce housing downtown.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 5, 2010
Nov. 5 Earnings: WCG, HZO

WellCare and Odyssey Marine profit; MarineMax business model changing.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 19, 2010
Goodwill executive helping Haiti

The Goodwill franchises on the Gulf Coast continue to foster reputations as doers in difficult times.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2011
Bank faces tough times, but won't quit

The survival fight will wage on at Sarasota-based Bank of Commerce, recognized by regulators as one of the more troubled Gulf Coast-based community banks.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2021
Manufacturer moving corporate headquarters to area, bringing 200 jobs

Illinois-based Signode Industrial Group will move into the Hidden River Corporate Park in Tampa

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 28, 2021
Swedish construction firm leading $38M convention center project

Skanska's renovation and expansion of the Tampa Convention Center bringing updates and adding 18,000 square feet of meeting space

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 11, 2022
Build-for-rent community to bring 274 homes to area

The community is a multifamily housing concept focused on homebuyers facing unaffordable options.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2018
Recently awarded patent is first for technical college

A Manatee Technical College instructor invented a method to teach the theory of the air conditioning system.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 8, 2019
Heights Union building breaks ground at 45% leased

With a lease for 50,000 square feet, co-work giant WeWork has pushed commitments in the Heights Union office building to 45% just as the project has broken ground.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2018
Florida surpasses major economy milestone

Florida’s economy is now the No. 17 largest in the world, ahead of Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Argentina, according to a statement from the Florida Chamber Foundation.

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