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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 1, 2017
Global Ambition

NeoGenomics aims to be the world's leading cancer-testing company. It's starting with its first laboratory outside the U.S. — in Switzerland.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 20, 2025
Naples condo project site sells for $92.5 million

Kolter Urban has bought the former Executive Club property and plans for luxury waterfront development.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 15, 2025
Detwiler’s opening large distribution center in Palmetto

The grocery chain will use the center to serve its six stores in Sarasota and Manatee counties with more possibly to come.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • January 2, 2016
Stubborn passion

A Tampa hospitality company rode out the recession. Better days are on the way.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
ABA President-Elect Visits Tampa

Michael Greco, the American Bar Associationis president-elect, explained his executive priorities for the year to members of the Hillsborough County Bar Association during a Jan. 18 luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Tampa.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
Florida Bar President Visits Clearwater

Politics dominated the message Florida Bar President Kelly Overstreet Johnson delivered on Jan. 13 to members of the Clearwater Bar Association during a luncheon at the Harborview Center.

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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 Grier Ferguson |
  • May 25, 2018
With citrus in peril, entrepreneurs and researchers turn to a new crop

Kelly Hackman, owner of The White Heron Tea & Gifts in New Port Richey, and Brantlee Richter, a University of Florida professor, are both interested in the potential of tea as a Florida crop.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 31, 2022
Recruitment drive: Tech entrepreneur envisions a better way to hire

Tampa, Florida-based entrepreneur Vaishnavi More created Archslate, a new kind of job-search website for the architecture, engineering and construction industry.

  • Technology
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 13, 2010
GULF COAST 500: Stay On Top

A federal government policy enforcement shift breathed life into a startup insurance services firm in 2001. Now another shift holds lucrative potential.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 13, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: May 13

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 28, 2020
Miami developer planning second St. Petersburg tower

American Land Ventures, buoyed by market response to Aer, intends to develop 22-story apartment building downtown

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  • By Jay Schlichter |
  • September 6, 2019
Construction firm turns historic building into community foundation

Nearly 100-year-old railroad depot transformed into welcoming space for collaboration efforts.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 3, 2018
Sarasota-Bradenton International offering land for development

To ensure its future financial viability and be less reliant on passenger traffic, Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is offering 92 acres of land adjacent to its runways for development.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 10, 2017
How to ... Get media attention for your company

The quick-hit answer to getting your company media coverage, from blogs and TV news to magazines and newspapers, is to hire a public relations professional or company.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2007
Growing Pains

Jim Needham tells doctors pondering job offers at the orthopedic and sports medicine practice he runs they should assume this is the place where they will have their retirement party.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 29, 2005
Q&A with Laura Spencer

The Gulf Coast Business Review sits down with the new COO of Tervis Tumbler.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2003
15 Newsmakers (9/19/03)

AccountingKathleen Hargreaves, CPA, a shareholder with Sarasota's Kerkering, Barberio & Co. PA recently published "Physician Asset Protection Planning: A New Urgency" in CPA Today, a Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants magazine. The arti

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 18, 2017
New Look

Few companies have pulled off large-scale brand conversions in the restaurant business. First Watch hopes to bust the trend.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • March 26, 2026
Lee resort opens $26M water park, more expansion tied up in litigation

The owners of South Seas on Captiva Island have spent $250 million — at least — on making South Seas a go-to global destination for memory-seeking families. Vocal opposition to more expansion, however, remains.

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