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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 15, 2015
Condo developer launches sales

Sales will begin this month for the first condo development in downtown Fort Myers since the recession.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 10, 2012
Better Ventures

The venture-capital business is thawing from the recession's freeze as investors find opportunities to buy and sell stakes in promising Florida companies.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 24, 2024
Sprouts makes headway in Florida’s Publix-dominated market

Arizona natural food grocer Sprouts Farmers Market is carving out a niche for itself in the state — even in the shadow of Publix, the 10,000-pound elephant.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2020
Bank's expansion creates new space for symphony

An offer for a new office comes at the right time for the Southwest Florida Symphony.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 1, 2016
Package promoters

A successful shipping company seeks a new approach in the fight for repeat customers. It might be on to something.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 16, 2022
Bolts ticket prices soar as team chases third-straight Cup

The Tampa Bay Lightning lost Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, but ticket sellers on the secondary market have seen big gains.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2016
Restaurant chain grows close to home

The newest First Watch will be the seventh in the Sarasota-Manatee market.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 22, 2018
Publix, hospital team up for unique partnership

Publix shoppers can consult with board-certified BayCare physicians thanks to a new partnership.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2014
New York area companies buy The Brittany Apartments

The price equated to $47,969 per unit.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 3, 2016
Vacation of a lifetime?

Talk about a working vacation: More than half the respondents in a new PNC Bank survey say they would choose either Warren Buffett or Mark Zuckerberg as the top business people to partner up with on a vacation.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2014
Bringing home the goods

Sarasota-based product design and development firm Robrady recently earned some global recognition for work on a portable fuel cell it did in conjunction with a New York engineering firm.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 5, 2016
Pin interest

Virginia Haley's politics these days revolve around encouraging people to visit Sarasota. Her office tells a bigger story.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 8, 2017
MTV reality show to focus on region hotspot

According to Adweek, the show will feature rising college sophomores.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 9, 2023
Study: Florida in the bottom half of best states to raise a family

A host of reasons put the state near the bottom of the pack when it comes to being family friendly.

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  • June 17, 2020
Homebuilder's sales back to pre-coronavirus levels

Neal Communities also marked five community sales closeouts during the month at Tides End, The Ridge at Crossing Creek, Coconut Cove, Watermark and Cypress Walk.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2015
No more guessing, hoping

Sarasota-based wealth manager Alin David Lozada has spent the bulk of his career in search of a solution to a serious issue: How to track a diverse portfolio's potential losses in real time, every day, to avoid large drops.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 19, 2021
Locally based fast-food chain plans massive french fry giveaway

Checkers and Rally’s Restaurants Inc., headquartered in Tampa, Florida, will hold a three-day ‘Black FryDay’ French fry giveaway promotion on the biggest holiday shopping weekend of the year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2013
USAmeriBank sells insurance division

Tenth-largest insurance broker Hub International buys Connelly, Carlisle, Fields & Nichols.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 20, 2012
Sunshine still sells, at least in the Sunshine State

Florida economic development officials should play up the state's strengths — especially the sunshine — when it comes to wooing businesses.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 17, 2025
Symphony Salvage sells Sarasota building for $3.5 million

The 25-year-old building was sold vacant after the second-hand distributor moved to a bigger space nearby.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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