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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2014
Luxury retail pops up to fill void

Marilee Roberts sells exotic, handcrafted jewelry imported from Italy — a gig that so far, over two years, hasn't involved morphing into a commercial real estate landlord.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 30, 2014
In Memoriam: Al Austin 1929-2014

Longtime area developer Dick Beard reminisces about Al Austin.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2014
Mattamy Homes buys Thomas Ranch for $86.25M

Mattamy Homes has purchased the 9,650-acre Thomas Ranch property from Thomas Enterprises for $86.25 million. Vanguard Land, a Sarasota real estate development and investment firm, will be a minority partner in the property and will provide strategic planning and direction for Thomas Ranch.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 13, 2014
Firm strikes back against lawsuit

Executives at Clearwater-based insurance firm HCI Group aren't taking the standard approach to the threat of a potentially damaging shareholders' lawsuit.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2013
Anti-regulatory crusaders score victory

A lawsuit that challenges the controversial $50 minimum fare rule for every limo and luxury sedan ride in Hillsborough County will move forward.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2016
Shareholder drops Chico's proxy fight

Barington Capital Group says it has dropped its proxy battle for two nominees to the board of directors of Chico's FAS, but it pledged to keep the pressure on the struggling retailer.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 2, 2016
Farley White in buying mode

Boston-based Farley White Interests, fresh from its $73 million acquisition of the Hidden River I, II and III complex in Tampa's Westshore district last month, hopes to assemble a portfolio of Florida properties.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2016
Bring the innovation to Tampa

Some Tampa area business and civic leaders are looking far outside the United States — to Israel — to lure tech startups to town, with $1 million in seed money.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 7, 2016
IN MEMORIAM | Aaron W. Hendry 1936-2016

Aaron Hendry had family connections in the Tampa area maritime and ship repair industry through his dad, Captain F.M. Hendry.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2016
Big Deal

The Amazon fulfillment center in south Hillsborough County, all 1.1 million square feet of it, is really only a microcosm of CEO Jeff Bezos's grand vision: To outdo anyone and everyone in service and speed.

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  • June 24, 2016
Block party for developers

A so-called super block in downtown St. Petersburg, part of a complicated battle and now agreement between a preservation group and landowners, is open for development.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 14, 2016
$100 million spec project coming to Lakeland

Amid a growing buzz about the need for additional distribution product in the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando to meet demand, an Illinois-based company is planning to construct the largest speculative industrial park in Lakeland in more than a decade.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 25, 2016
Gators score innovation points

After nearly two years of secret meetings and slow progress, Sarasota business and economic development officials could finally celebrate a major achievement: A unique and ambitious economic development initiative and partnership with the University of Florida that holds potential for both area students and businesses.

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  • June 12, 2015
'Work myself out of a job'

The people government agencies hire for homeless services positions tend to come from the nonprofit world, maybe with some business experience mixed in.

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  • June 22, 2015
$712M Medicare fraud busts include local execs

The national case included 243 people, and more than $712 million in false billing.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 17, 2015
Commercial real estate

Ritz to undergo renovations; Tampa buildings going 'green'

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 23, 2015
Four Naples attorneys bolt from firm

Atlanta-based FisherBroyles is on an aggressive expansion plan.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 18, 2015
Mercato success spawns project

The co-developer of the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota and the upscale, golf-centered Concession community in east Manatee County has proposed a $200 million collection of upscale condominiums, retail and entertainment space and offices on a 31-acre tract near Sarasota Square Mall.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 2, 2016
Now it's personal

Already a leader in cancer testing, NeoGenomics will double in size with the $275 million acquisition of rival Clarient and GE Healthcare as a major shareholder.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 4, 2015
Are dark clouds forming for CRE?

Even before China's stock market began melting down earlier this month and Wall Street became caught in the web of volatility, analysts were starting to sound warning bells about the future of commercial real estate in Florida and elsewhere.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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