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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2011
Developer opposes impact fee cut?

Sarasota County government's proposal to cut road impact fees 50% may face a challenge from an unexpected direction.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 28, 2013
Start it up

Rance Crain is a legendary figure in the world of independently owned business publications — hence the standing ovation he received during a meeting of his industry peers in June.

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  • September 30, 2021
Business surges at local port during pandemic

Port Manatee didn't take even a second to breathe in 2020. Instead, the port barreled through the pandemic in a move that paid off with a reported 55% increase in cargo.

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  • April 11, 2021
Tech firm hires World Series winner for mental conditioning role

Derin McMains worked for three major league baseball teams.

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  • December 4, 2020
Delayed invasion: Gasparilla won't set sail until spring

Pirates, rogues and buccaneers will parade in Tampa in late April as organizers postpone the popular festivities.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 20, 2022
Hertz invests $19M in European electric vehicle company

The rental car firm makes another step in electric vehicle mobility movement.

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  • October 5, 2018
Tampa passes cruise ship milestone

Port Tampa Bay posted several other major accomplishments during the past 12 months. For one, it set an all-time high for passenger traffic in one weekend — March 31-April 1 — when 29,167 cruisers were in and out of the port during the Easter weekend, acc

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  • October 11, 2019
Partnership leads to hundreds of employees receiving eye protection

Eye Center and Sun Hydraulics teamed up to provide safety glasses for Sun's manufacturing workers.

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  • April 4, 2019
Redevelopment group names well-known fundraising leader to team

Veronica Brady served for nearly a decade as senior vice president for philanthropy at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 19, 2019
Benefit corporation strikes saucy deal with major grocery chain

Teen-operated Taste of Immokalee awarded space in some 200 Publix stores' 'Buy Local' shelves.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • March 30, 2018
Data Snashot: Area cities score low on study of popular cities for millennial homebuyers

Certain U.S. cities are attracting more millennials buying homes, a LendingTree study says.

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  • April 13, 2018
Local businessman develops one-wheel electric vehicle

A local inventor has developed an electric unicycle that’s gaining traction.

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  • November 18, 2016
Bridge to capital, and jobs

Semi-retired executives and part-time Longboat Key residents Sam Guren and Tom Gardner come from wildly different backgrounds.

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  • By Tom Johnson |
  • November 24, 2017
Why Fast Casual?

Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle, started Chipotle Mexican Grill with the mindset and goal of raising enough capital to open a full service restaurant.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 2, 2016
Senior living grows crowded

Michigan-based developer Dale Watchowski isn't necessarily daunted by competition from others in the region-wide senior housing industry boom, but it's something he thinks about — often.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 2, 2016
Senior living grows crowded

Michigan-based developer Dale Watchowski isn't necessarily daunted by competition from others in the region-wide senior housing industry boom, but it's something he thinks about — often.

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  • April 8, 2016
Tasty plate of finances

The entrepreneurial couple behind Taste of Asia, a popular Lao-Thai-Vietnamese restaurant about five miles south of downtown Sarasota, recently bit into one of the toughest tasks independent restaurateurs could face: obtaining bank financing.

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  • February 27, 2015
Polk County: Daytona developers buy Without Walls Lakeland mega church

A company led by Daytona Beach-area developers Douglas Cook and George Anderson purchased the former Carpenters Home mega-church property for $3.75 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • December 24, 2024
Largest commercial transactions in the region per county surpass $1B

Five of the nine largest deals in 2024 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota counties involved multifamily properties.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 24, 2025
12 businesses coming soon to University Town Center

A 120,000-square-foot furniture retailer, a Middle Eastern restaurant and an outdoor retailer are among the many businesses opening at Sarasota-Manatee's University Town Center over the next year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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