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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 21, 2024
FEMA downgrade costs Fort Myers Beach 25% flood insurance discount

Lee County and four localities learn that they will maintain their ratings and the discount comes with it.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 11, 2025
Report: Tariffs to add $10K to cost of Florida house, $7K to cars

Florida TaxWatch says the Sunshine State's exports and imports are at risk, and both consumers and businesses will be hit.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 10, 2023
Report: Florida is the luckiest state in the US for Powerball tickets

The Sunshine State is nearing $3 billion in total money won in the national game since 2003.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2009
Did jobs actually increase or decrease?

Most published versions of Florida's latest unemployment numbers will quote 8,500 as the number of jobs “lost” from September 2009 to October 2009. However, 20,800 more individuals were working in October than in September.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 8, 2013
Port Manatee bushels big corn shipment

Latest delivery is the port's third in the last eight months from South America.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2012
Federal regulators seek to sack more bankers

Super Bowl-winning QB Jim McMahon is the latest former community bank board member targeted by federal regulators.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 20, 2016
Freeze frame

Christie Frankenstein came up with an idea for a genuine new product. Now she has to manage the growth.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 11, 2017
Sarasota City Center building sells for $36.5M

The purchase is the third major office transaction in Sarasota in the past year

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • December 2, 2022
Nautical chart art shop makes big waves in retail sector

Online retailer Sea & Soul Nautical Chart Art is featured in 70 shops nationwide.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 25, 2013
NeoGenomics files $25 million offering

Cancer-testing firm NeoGenomics files plans to sell stock or warrants.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 26, 2014
Duke to sell unused nuclear fuel assemblies

Duke Energy Florida is selling assemblies from Crystal River Nuclear Plant as part of its decommissioning of the facility.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2015
Homebuilder's project crushes projections

Lakewood Ranch-based Neal Communities also expects to sell 1,000 homes in 2015.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2022
Report: Retail sector powers past the pandemic, with gains in several areas

Discount stores are proving the power of resiliency.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 21, 2024
Salvation Army taking over shuttered Venice Books-A-Million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, gyms change hands in Fort Myers, a Boston buyer pays $63 million for apartments in Tampa, and land set aside for conservation sold in Sarasota.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 4, 2015
Best connections

Greg Courtot says the golf course is one of the best places to network with prospective customers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 18, 2011
Kentucky investor buys hotels for $5 million

An investment group led by majority shareholder Phil Greer of Lexington, Ky., purchased two adjacent Port Charlotte select services hotels for $5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 24, 2022
Law firm’s fast-growing lobbying arm names new chief of staff

Gino Casanova, a former legislative aide in Tallahassee, has joined lobbying firm Shumaker Advisors Florida as chief of staff.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 27, 2013
West coast blues sound good to Florida

California's anti-business climate continues to provide an economic development boost for Florida, one entrepreneur at a time.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2016
Best to go it alone

Hotel flags and established names, for real estate developers, are often the easiest and fastest way to get a solid return, given the built-in brand.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 23, 2025
Ark Invest to move HQ to new St. Petersburg office tower

The Cathie Wood-led tech investment behemoth is leasing 13,000 square feet in the new Halcyon office building to be built at The Central.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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