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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 4, 2010
Timberland Door buys Largo warehouse building

Timberland Door LLC purchased a 46,000-square-foot warehouse for $2.19 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2011
The Links owner buys Beacon Woods Golf Club

The Links Golf Club owner Matt Lowman purchased the nearby Beacon Woods Golf Club for $1.74 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 31, 2019
Two sentenced in grant fraud case

Naples woman faces 10 years in federal prison after being convicted for duping Lee County of nearly $5 million in economic development grant funds.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 6, 2026
Family-owned garden center opens third store in region

MRT Lawn and Garden Center is now open in North Venice.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2006
Commercial RE Briefs

Landmark Development Group buys in Grey Oak for TraditionsHampshire Generational buys Mission HillsChicago company buys Fort Myers Beach self-storage complexFirst Priority buys land for Ellenton branchBlackpoint, Bison buy second to last portion of Washington CrossingSynovus Bank acquires land for Tamiami branchSarasota's Mooring Development buys Regency Coporate ParkPolitis Properties plans Drew St. office buildingChildren's Urology buys Midtown suite

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 8, 2011
Happy people spend more money

Gulf Coast business owners and executives who have struggled to survive the recession might get sore from the multiple eye rolls to come out of the latest academic study on the economy.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 13, 2017
Business seeks to sprout

Sprouts Farmers Market has selected Sarasota and Tampa as the latest proving grounds for a so-far successful strategy of selling natural and organic foods at discount prices.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 23, 2014
It's gotta be the shoes

A Sarasota firm with U.S. distribution rights for Blackstone shoes, a popular canvas-style brand in Europe, found some unusual partners for its latest marketing initiative: Retired basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal and the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.

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  • July 10, 2015
Feeling happy, sort of

Florida small business executives, in general, feel somewhat positive about the future economic environment, according to the latest Thumbtack.com/Bloomberg Small Business Sentiment Survey.

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  • August 22, 2003
Profit Comes First

The CEO at Tampa's Global Imaging Systems Inc. learned at two other office-technology distributors that acquisition-aided revenue growth doesn't always boost earnings.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 20, 2013
This is the big idea

few local big-idea people, backed with some seed money, want to solve an continuous economic development issue in Sarasota: Brain drain.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 15, 2018
Wanna be rich? Here are the best zip codes for that

Naples is one of the richest zip codes in the country.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 29, 2022
Arizona company pays nearly $500 million for Florida properties

Cove Communities expands holdings in Florida buying golf course and four 55-plus communities.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2010
Condo Capital buys, resells 53 units

Denver-based condominium turn-around company Condo Capital Solutions has purchased the 53 remaining units in the 124-unit, two-building Bel Mare Condominiums at Riviera Dunes for $6.4 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • November 6, 2009
Kalu Watanabe, others buy Ashton Pointe land

Royal Swazi Ashton LLC, an investment group of Kalu Watanabe and several other Florida financial partners, purchased the 15.38-acre Ashton Pointe planned community on Fielding Lane north of Clark Road and west of Interstate 75 for $526,800.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 20, 2009
Residential Management Inc. buys Fisherman's Landing

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Residential Management Inc. purchased the 256-unit Fisherman's Landing apartments just north of State Road 582 from Aimco for $14.95 million. The purchase price equated to $53,398 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Roger Drouin |
  • January 17, 2013
Sarasota investor Biter buys two Main Street buildings

The price equated to $228 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • January 13, 2012
Legislature begins session

A new gambling bill, a look at Florida's special taxing districts, and hospital quality are all on the docket this week.

  • Florida
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • January 12, 2024
Printing entrepreneur's wine pastime leads him to travel the globe

"Life is too short to drink less than good wine," Andrick & Associates President Mark Esbeck says of his longtime pursuit.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 18, 2016
Tampa becoming a 'new city of finance'

Tampa is among 10 emerging U.S. cities where financial services firms are expanding and hiring, according to a new report by commercial real estate services firm CBRE Inc.

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