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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 22, 2019
Area sports leader juggles two franchises with overlapping schedules

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld is now pulling double-duty as vice chairman of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based soccer club the Rays acquired in October from local entertainment and property magnate Bill Edwards.

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  • March 27, 2019
Manufacturer recruits CFO from food industry

Brad West is assuming a newly created position of senior vice president of corporate development and treasurer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2019
Alum returns with restaurant concept

FGCU grad brings #getfried french fry-focused eatery to University Village Shops near Florida Gulf Coast University.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 8, 2018
Commercial landlords could face big tax hike

Commercial landlords, renters and businesses could face combined $700 million property tax hike unless voters agree to extend non-homesteaded tax cap permamently

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 12, 2018
New principal named to take over area architecture office

Carlson Studio Architecture founder and President Michael Carlson will focus on growing the firm's Seattle office.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 30, 2018
Building 'curious' leaders

Suffolk Career Start program

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  • April 20, 2018
Company offers unique perk for employees

Dave Harting seeks to recruit — and retain — more employees at Crystal Clean.

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  • April 26, 2022
Tampa Museum of Art receives $25M donation that will help fund renovation

The gift comes from property developer Dick Corbett, the president of Tampa-based Concorde Cos.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 19, 2022
Phoenix developer looking to buy land in Florida — quickly

VT LandGroup out of Arizona looking for parcels for built-to-rent communities.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 19, 2022
Hertz motors on with new top lawyer

Current general counsel Dave Galainena is retiring.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 21, 2016
Feds: Cancer doctor used phony medicine

Palm Harbor physician D. Anda Norbergs was convicted of multiple counts in the case.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 9, 2016
Sunz Insurance completes move from Sarasota

Sunz Insurance Co. has sold its Sarasota office building in the International Trade Center, capping its nearly year-long headquarters' move to Bradenton, in Manatee County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 17, 2017
Data snapshot: Head of the class

Companies across multiple industries spent $2.17 billion defending class action lawsuits in 2016.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 5, 2017
Naples firm plans 563-acre Charlotte development

In the wake of its $6.5 million purchase of a 563-acre tract in Punta Gorda, Lely Development Corp. intends to start work on a project that could contain as many as 2,400 residents and hundreds of thousands of commercial square feet at completion.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • October 15, 2013
Feld focuses on long-term

Executives with Feld Entertainment, the company behind one of the most notable economic development projects in Manatee County over the last decade, are all about 20/20 vision.

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  • July 4, 2014
Snell Isle apartments sell for $32 million

Cleveland-based property management firm Burton Carol Management LLC purchased the 272-unit Snell Isle Luxury Waterfront Apartment Homes for $32 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2014
Atlanta's Cortland Partners pays $78M for Island Walk, Gallery at Bayport II, land

Cortland Partners purchased two waterfront apartment complexes and vacant land from UDR Inc. for a total of $78.43 million. The Atlanta-based multifamily company purchased the 400-unit Island Walk apartments for $50 million and 277 of the 320 condominium units in the Gallery at Bayport II for $28.43 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 5, 2014
Growth firms show mettle

The Gulf Coast is well represented among a list of 50 second-stage companies on the rise compiled by GrowFL, a statewide economic development program.

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  • January 27, 2014
Former attorney pleads guilty in $28.3M scheme

Case includes two outpatient rehab facilities on the Gulf Coast.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2014
Luxury retail pops up to fill void

Marilee Roberts sells exotic, handcrafted jewelry imported from Italy — a gig that so far, over two years, hasn't involved morphing into a commercial real estate landlord.

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