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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 15, 2016
Second home

Lake Michigan Credit Union plans to grow in Southwest Florida by opening branches and possibly making acquisitions.

  • Finance
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 13, 2016
Singular purpose

A shortage of nurse anesthetists drove a Naples practice to start a college to train the next generation. Graduates can earn six figures.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2016
Site selector: Sarasota made 'big mistake'

Sarasota County Commissioners voted 4-1 to turn down Project Mulligan.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • October 15, 2015
5 ways to ensure an effective benefits renewal

A bad benefits renewal period is preventable by following some basic steps to ensure that a business has an effective benefits renewal process, one that works for both the company and the employees.

  • AllTrust Insurance
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 11, 2015
Veggie delight

Tomato giant Lipman has diversified its operations across North and Central America. Growing organic vegetables is a big challenge.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 9, 2015
Q&A | Clark Toole III

From a single $760,000 deal four decades ago, Clark Toole III has built a real estate career that finds him running Florida operations of the state's most active residential brokerage.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 23, 2015
Favored class

Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeffrey Saut says investors favor real estate, and Florida will continue to be a big beneficiary of this trend.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 27, 2025
Prominent Sarasota nonprofit leader to retire after 10 years

Teri Hansen, the president and CEO of Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, was initially hired as the organization's first employee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • April 26, 2025
Tampa Gasworx project phase 2 leadership provide visual updates

Work is well on the way at the site of Gasworx, the long anticipated, long planned and long discussed massive 50-acre redevelopment just outside Tampa's Ybor City.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 19, 2025
Pinellas eye care practice to pay $600K in kickback scheme settlement

Pinellas Eye Care P.A., doing business as Gulfcoast Eye Care, will also cooperate with the federal government in the ongoing investigation.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 22, 2025
Eye care practice in $615K fraud case responds to allegations

Gulfcoast Eye Care says it relied on information from an unnamed third-party vendor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Bequest |
  • February 5, 2024
Solve Your Income Challenge in 2024 with Bequest Funds

The Bequest Platinum Event will take place on February 22, 2024 in downtown Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 22, 2024
Mixed-use transformation ahead for 1,175-acre Bradenton flower farm

SeaFlower will open for residents in summer 2025 in a Manatee County community designed to be walkable with shops, a grocer and restaurants.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 22, 2023
Tampa Bay EDC wins top international award

Tampa Bay's organization is named the best metro Economic Development Council in North America.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • November 15, 2023
Outback Steakhouse wins major customer satisfaction award — but who cares?

Tampa-based steak giant wants you to know it knows you don't care if it won a big award.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 12, 2025
$35M Longboat Key mansion is Sarasota County's most expensive listing

The property spans nearly 20,000 square feet and has 145 feet of beach frontage.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • August 18, 2025
Tampa law firm with eight attorneys joins national practice

National law firm Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP announced Monday it is absorbing Tampa-based law firm Walters Levine & DeGrave, taking on its eight attorneys and 11 staff members.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 1, 2023
Sarasota Starbucks workers seek to join national union

Starbucks officials push back against the effort.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • December 18, 2023
Tampa General Hospital picks up 'transformational' donation

Following what Tampa General Hospital calls a "transformational" gift, its children's hospital will be renamed "Muma Children's Hospital at TGH" in honor of donors Pam and Les Muma.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 3, 2025
Report: Severe weather, flooding puts billions in home values at risk in region

A new climate risk report finds that the nearly a quarter of the home value on Florida's Gulf Coast is at risk of major flood damage.

  • Florida
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