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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 18, 2014
Hot Communities

Institutional investors are paying top dollar for manufactured-home communities, lured by high occupancies and steady income. Even private equity firms are looking at the hot sector.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • April 15, 2016
Executive Q&A: Barry Shevlin, CEO, Vology

"Cash is like oxygen," says the longtime business owner, one of many lessons he's learned.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 22, 2016
Scientific method

Lakewood Ranch is making a push to aggregate life sciences in a new 265-acre campus that its backers say will be anything but clinical.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 2, 2025
Hooters seeks $40M in financing as founders reach deal to take over

The parent company's bankruptcy provides an opportunity for the chain's Clearwater founders to buy locations and run franchise operations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 29, 2025
Sarasota window and door company completes equity investment

As one investment partner exits, another emerges for All Glass & Windows.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 24, 2025
Roper Technologies to make $1.65 billion acquisition

A Sarasota-based software and technology company is buying a niche software provider.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2025
Massachusetts restaurant software firm grows Florida presence

Forbes Snyder, which has been in business for nearly 90 years, is expanding with an office in Fort Myers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 12, 2023
Kendal Potesta, 37

A new chicken salad franchisee quickly earns companywide national recognition.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 12, 2023
Cole Richardson, 30

An entrepreneur and girls' high school soccer coach follows her heart.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 11, 2025
Homegrown Lee County bank hits $1B asset milestone

Sanibel Captiva Community Bank becomes second bank in Lee County to surpass $1 billion.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 11, 2025
Bradenton biopharmaceutical company acquires North Carolina business

Continuity Biosciences has acquired Focal Medical.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 22, 2024
Want to be a better leader? Get curious.

A pair of leadership consultants press the case: Strong leaders must be driven by curiosity.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 6, 2024
Public-private partnership addresses affordable housing crisis in Tampa

The city of Tampa provided a developer with $12 million to build a 354-apartment community and ensured it remains available to low-income residents for the next 99 years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • September 16, 2024
The secret to a long-running private clinical research firm? Lead with your gut.

Clinical Research of West Florida is acing every test in its business.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 9, 2025
Morgan Odum, 30

40 Under 40 winner Morgan Odum is regional affairs manager at Tampa Electric Co.

  • Class of 2025
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 26, 2022
Rock-star investor puts stamp of approval on St. Pete

Cathie Wood and her company, ARK Investment Management, have gone all-in on the Sunshine City as the nation's next top tech hub.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • January 5, 2026
Marketing executive caught the bug for collecting vintage Volkswagens

When she’s not running Pinstripe Marketing & Interactive, Ginger Galloway is likely driving around town in one of her three beloved vintage Volkswagen cars.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 16, 2025
YIGBY picture gets clearer as Gulf Coast localities work on adoption

Yes in God's Backyard is a tool to spur the development of affordable housing by allowing religious organizations to bypass zoning rules to build on their land.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 16, 2023
Tampa businessman charged in conspiracy to kill Haitian president

Feds allege that the 64-year-old man worked to provide vests and lodging for a military group that carried out the assassination on Jovenel Moïse.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2023
Sarasota County Commissioner Nancy Detert dies at 78

Detert mostly represented areas of south Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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