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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 1, 2013
Feed the map

Geofeedia maps social media posts so journalists, emergency officials and companies can track what's being said.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 19, 2024
Target to build large-format store near Lakewood Ranch

The retailer has filed for a permit with Manatee County to build a new store, nearly 25,000 square feet larger than its average store, at Marketplace at Heritage Harbour off I-75.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • September 28, 2018
Businessman ramps up focus on sustainable housing

Marshall Gobuty's latest sustainable housing project — Hunters Point Resort and Marina — is getting its start in Manatee County, drawing interest from as far away as Russia.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 16, 2013
CEO School

No school can teach you how to be a CEO, but this peer group comes close.

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  • By Adrian Moore |
  • June 3, 2016
MY VIEW: The Danger of Endangered Species Act

Florida's revisions of its Imperiled Species Plan are heading toward punishing landowners. Florida should adopt the Texas model.

  • Florida
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  • By Adrian Moore |
  • November 27, 2015
My View: The danger of the Endangered Species Act

Florida's revisions of its Imperiled Species Plan are heading toward punishing landowners. Florida should adopt the Texas model.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2011
Major in real estate

Here's another sign real estate may have reached bottom: Florida Gulf Coast University's Lutgert College of Business plans to launch a real estate major in fall 2012.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 1, 2011
Venture funding is now available

Florida isn't exactly the venture-capital hot spot of the nation, but you may not have to travel to California or Boston to find the angel investors and venture capitalists to fuel your business.

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  • April 3, 2012
Food purveyor swings to profit

Naples-based Innovative Food Holdings reported a profitable year in 2011.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 24, 2012
PODS to hire 150 in Clearwater

The moving and storage firm seeks sales and customer service staff.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 26, 2012
Yippy applies for OTC listing

Search engine Yippy Inc. files to trade its stock over the counter.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 17, 2016
Yacht retailer brings first-of-its-kind boat to U.S.

The boat is located at the company's Pompano Yacht Center.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 8, 2016
Ohio firm moves headquarters to Tampa

The IT and staffing services company, Cohesion, works with Fortune 1000 companies.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • October 19, 2007
Corporate Report

Florida's confidence up, UF predicts dropnFinanSe, InComm agree on distribution dealSyniverse Technologies handling Saudi Telecom

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  • February 21, 2013
Bank oversells target with $5.6M capital raise

Neil McCurry will now officially take over the CEO role at Sabal Palm Bank.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2011
Taylor Morrison buys land for Esplanade at Lakewood Ranch

Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. purchased 207 acres of former grove land north of State Road 70 near Center Ice Parkway and Pope Road for $10.12 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2012
TerraCap Partners fund buys Coconut Office Center

The price equated to $72 per square foot.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 19, 2018
Sarasota industrial inventory tightening

United Natural Foods Inc. took down an additional 40,038 square feet in Sarasota's Independent Business Center last fall, expanding on the 90,000 square feet it already had in the same park space the food distributor maintains in the massive Meridian Distribution Center off Clark Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 30, 2014
Former Sarasota Jackson Hewitt exec counts new gig

Danamichele Brennen oversaw a Jackson Hewitt call center from 2007 to 2011.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 1, 2015
Hospitality company executive buys two sections of island

A company led by Tom Torgerson, CEO of the Willmar, Minn.-based hotel company TPI Hospitality, purchased two large portions of Fort Myers Beach for a combined $13.3 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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