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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 14, 2024
Florida business owner charged with running human trafficking ring

The attorney general highlighted a human trafficking case out of spas in Manatee and Hillsborough counties in pointing to the need for a newly formed state task force.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 10, 2009
Blue Head Tequila posts profit

Blue Head Tequila, a Tampa-based Tequila company, has reached a turning point, or maybe a celebration point.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 27, 2010
Confidence up, unexpectedly

Statewide consumer confidence rose in October, says the University of Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 12, 2010
Gov. Crist getting support

Gov. Crist is now favored in the race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 19, 2023
Lee County is getting The Cheesecake Factory

The popular chain is opening a 9,000-square-foot eatery in Estero later this year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 19, 2024
Fleming’s Chinese food concept opens Estero restaurant

PJK Neighborhood Chinese has opened a 6,000-square-foot eatery at Coconut Point, the Lee County open air mall.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 22, 2024
Fleming restaurant concept, Lululemon to open at Coconut Point mall

The Lee County open-air mall has announced the new retailer and restaurants shortly after adding a handful tenants earlier this year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 22, 2026
Prolific Atlanta multifamily developer buys Fort Myers land

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Wendy’s is adding locations in Manatee, a Polk County industrial site changes hands, and a Miami flooring company finds space in Fort Myers.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 16, 2023
High-end SWFL movie theater to close

Speculation of a replacement for Silverspot focuses on a Texas chain.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 14, 2021
Popular Italian chophouse in tony neighborhood re-opening by end of the month

Timpano Italian Chophouse to repoen late October, VIP event scheduled for Oct. 25

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 11, 2018
Who will pay for proposed $892 million baseball stadium?

The Tampa Bay Rays lifted the curtain on their proposal for a new ballpark in Tampa's Ybor City, but the $892 million cost could be a sticking point.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2016
Luxury on the move

Need any more evidence that downtown Sarasota has pent up demand for luxury condos? Consider this: A local developer plans to buy out all 14 owners in a bayfront complex and pay to knock it down — just to build a new one.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2018
Loaded up and truckin'

If you thought Florida is getting more people, you're absolutely correct.

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  • March 21, 2014
Short sales decrease sharply in Sarasota

Officials cite an improving economy and less unemployment for the drop.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 26, 2016
Economic reasons for happiness

The national economy has a yuck factor: It's growing less than 1% a quarter, the stock market is in a correction and corporate profit forecasts are dropping.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 10, 2025
English finance firm closing Tampa office, laying off 307

Wise U.S. says the job cuts are permanent and will start in April.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 24, 2024
Sarasota Paradise owner invests in AI platform to develop soccer team

Audigr Group invested in PlaymakerAI through a subsidiary.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2006
Going Up

Phil Camillo, who once sold training materials to rocket scientists, really knows how to make a sales pitch. His latest success? Winning a national elevator pitch contest for entrepreneurs.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 11, 2023
Lakewood Ranch homebuilder buys 345 acres in Lee County

A car dealership sells its land, plans for a parking garage are rejected, and a CRE firm is scooped up top the week's commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 28, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana)

Gold Coast Eagle moving to Manatee County?: Sarasota and Manatee counties' Anheuser Busch distributor, Gold Coast Eagle Distributing Co., has called Sarasota County home since right after prohibition, but that may be changing soon.Looking beyond price: A lot of people doubted it would happen, but Toronto-based Kolter Property Co. completed its $40 million purchase of the three-acre Metropolitan property at U.S. 41 and Gulf Stream Avenue in downtown Sarasota.Studying a university district: Who's going to coordinate the creation of a University District? We may have a better idea after Monday, March 28.

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