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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 12, 2026
Gulf-front Siesta Key estate lists for $26 million

The home on Point of Rocks features an infinity pool that appears to merge with the Gulf.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 18, 2008
Coffee Talk

The ever growing Price Guarantee Club: Sarasota-based developer Rob Morris is balancing an odd mix of anxiety and confidence as he seeks buyersLee County's first signs of hope: It's hard to find much good news about Lee County's housing market.Weight loss chain comes to Florida: Physician-directed Hy-Tech Weight Loss, a chain of weight loss centers based in Omaha, Neb., has opened a St. Petersburg locationSafest place for housing in Lee County: Matlacha: If the Lee County area has the worst rate of foreclosure in the countryTampa gets two new conventions: Siting good prices, available hotels, the convention center and the weather, two Washington-based associations have picked Tampa as the site of their 2010 and 2011 conventionBeall's finally gets new president: Bradenton-based retailer Beall's has hired Lana Cain KrauterBradenton land firm clear out of options: The real estate market slump has snared its latest victim: Bradenton-based Earthworks Land Development

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 12, 2014
Staging an encore

Loan growth at Encore Bank has boosted the Naples bank's profits. Real estate lending is leading the way.

  • Finance
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • October 26, 2018
Wyatt Chocklett, 33

Chief operating officer, Doctors Hospital of Sarasota

  • Class of 2018
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 5, 2021
Greystar pushes ahead with 36-story apartment tower

Multifamily rental development in St. Petersburg proceeds despite a wave of new multifamily rental inventory in recent years.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 8, 2024
Startup wows in specialized market: 3D-printing furniture

Wth a Texas lineage well-versed in dreaming and doing big things, Jay Rogers makes St. Pete a focal point of his latest venture: robots that make tables and chairs.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • April 28, 2021
Area fragrance entrepreneur launches debut perfume

Kenzie Fisher is marketing her experiential product using earned media, social media and a website that draws on several senses.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 16, 2023
Naples estate hits the market for nearly $19 million

A custom-built waterfront property in the city's Aqualane Shores neighborhood is almost 6,000 square feet.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 8, 2022
Swiss life sciences company choses Tampa for regional HQ

The company will open an office in USF Health’s CAMLS center downtown.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2012
Get on the bus, Gus, to the land of deals

Tampa has its own tours — only this one isn't for stars.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2019
Let them eat cake: Grocer takes dessert offerings to new level with imports

Publix Super Markets Inc. has struck a deal that will see the Lakeland, Florida-based grocer import premium, handmade cakes from La Rocca, a Canadian cake maker.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 8, 2019
Aquatic transportation service returns to area waterway

The Cross-Bay Ferry opens for a third season; Tampa mayor calls for it to be a permanent fixture.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 8, 2012
Utility top exec to retire

Vincent Dolan, with Progress Energy for 26 years, will leave by 2013.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 5, 2017
Tampa man must forfeit Porsche in $342K theft case

Weldon Malveau pleaded guilty to scamming the IRS for nearly $350,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 26, 2025
Fort Myers airport adds Phoenix flight for holidays

American Airlines is adding service between RSW and PHX from November to January.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 20, 2017
At 20, we're just getting started

We'll adapt and reinvent for your needs. But we'll always hold on to one conviction: Capitalism is great.

  • Opinion
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • April 18, 2023
$435M Sarasota nonprofit plans relocation to Tampa

CAN Community Health has been headquartered in Sarasota since 2018.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 25, 2020
Fast-moving financial crisis demands decisive action: banker

David Druey, Centennial Bank’s Florida regional president, says the coronavirus pandemic presents a host of challenges.

  • Finance
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  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • July 16, 2025
Manatee receives threat of litigation over increased impact fees

Freedom Housing Alliance Inc. says the impact fee increase — it could go from $13,442 for a house to more than $33,000 — violates state statute.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 26, 2003
YP Sarah Hoffe

Sarah Hoffe, a radiation oncologist for 21st Century Oncology, talks about work, dealing with death, who has mentored her and more.

  • Entrepreneurs
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