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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 23, 2024
Plant City manufacturing site sold for nearly $22 million

The Brennan Investment Group plans to more than double the existing Sonoco Products facility to nearly a half-million square feet.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2009
Perico development lands a second life

A failed condo project in northwest Manatee County has a chance at a new life now that it has new owners.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2013
New I-4 connector helps sell industrial center

Meridian Development Group bought a 200,000-square-foot industrial center near the upcoming I-4/Selmon Expressway connector.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2021
New craft company breaks six figures in sales

Maker Forte, based in east Manatee County, launched in mid-September 2020 with a collection of craft products.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 9, 2021
Premier Sotheby's hires Newell for new role

Kristine Newell, a new senior vice president at Premier Sotheby's International Realty, will oversee Southwest Florida brokerage company’s Tampa Bay operation, along with those in Central Florida and North Carolina.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2018
Staff up: Employment agency innovators return with a new venture

James Hawley and Dan Rodriguez, who founded Tampa, Florida-based Veredus and turned it into a $100 million business, have launched a new venture in the same industry called NextPath.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 22, 2018
Gartner begins major Fort Myers expansion

Business consultant Gartner is expanding into three additional buildings in Fort Myers as job growth within the company continues

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2017
Gulf Coast contractors expect further hiring in 2017

Firms expect to add jobs, but skilled labor is harder to find

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2016
Investors flip over home sales

Gulf Coast cities led the nation in the second quarter in home flips, according to a new report from Attom Data Solutions, the new parent company of real estate researcher RealtyTrac.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 9, 2015
Roper buys legal software provider for $675 million

The Lakewood Ranch company will acquire Aderant Holdings to help expand its client base and offer new products.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 6, 2024
Clearwater McDonald’s property sells for $3 million

The property was sold as a ground lease sale to a New York investor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 7, 2024
Builder quickly sells nearly 30 homes in new Babcock Ranch neighborhood

This is the first time Christoper Alan Homes has built homes in the community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2011
Hillsborough home prices stable

Conventional home prices have increased 5% for the first half of 2011.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 2, 2012
Brady's Bunch

A restaurant company with a penchant for successful sports bar turnaround projects harnesses a highly competitive spirit. “We have a whatever-it-takes attitude,” says one executive.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 27, 2019
Top Deals: Sarasota/Manatee

Apartments edged other sectors in top transaction activity in Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2019 as investors clamored to lock in yields, even as overall dollar volume dropped from the year before in absence of a few high-profile deals such as the sale

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 25, 2010
Reborn

A decade of accolades in the marketplace has failed to produce oodles of sales at a Gulf Coast medical and consumer products firm. Executives hope a management overhaul will turn its fortunes around.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • April 30, 2010
Next-Gen Goals

Brian Boyer and Travis Norris practically grew up with DataComm Networks. Now, as owners the last two years, they want to take the IT firm to new heights while retaining top employees through generous benefits.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 13, 2005
Free Press (Sara/Mana)

Manatee county administrator receives environmental awardTop sales producers honored at 'Night of the Stars'Palmetto tomato packer celebrates 70th anniversaryArgus Marine changes name, adds maintenance programMichael Saunders offers profit sharingMCC administrators speak during conferenceMay is Law Month in Manatee County

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 25, 2019
What They're Saying — CBRE

Though the Tampa office investment sales market slowed somewhat in 2018, the year was nonetheless marked by a number of high-profile deals for the Urban Centre property and others.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2013
la Madeleine aims for eight Gulf Coast locations

Fort Myers, Tampa and Naples may be new homes for the restaurant.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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