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Entrepreneur returns

The lure of getting back into home contracting services was too powerful for Jim Abrams.

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Company recognized as Facebook Marketing Partner

Sarasota-based Dealers United is also a Facebook Marketplace Inventory Partner.

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Sarasota, Fort Myers marketing firms merge

Avenue Media and Vectra Digital are teaming up to form a marketing agency for companies in the building, construction and home services industry.

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Government Digest: July 30 - Aug. 5

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

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Reduced Risk

Utilizing a niche in the market, a pair of Sarasota money managers has discovered a way to invest without obsessing over the daily Wall Street news barrage.

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Nonprofit serving older adults announces new headquarters project

The new home for the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida will be nearly 16,000 square feet.

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  • August 4, 2017
Sound Sleep

A medical supply firm's expansion into manufacturing could create 30 jobs in Winter Haven — or Missouri.

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  • May 12, 2017
Dali decision

USF business students get strategic lesson at icon museum.

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  • October 30, 2015
Capitalism leads the way

Officials at Benderson Development, by far the largest retail developer in the Sarasota-Bradenton market, and one of biggest landlords on the Gulf Coast, get the “why?” question a lot. As in, why does the firm continue to build and develop when it already has so much?

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Sarasota scorches monthly real estate sales

County closed 11,184 sales in 2013, for its second-best year ever.

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  • May 12, 2016
Tampa posts best housing data since 2007

New homes listed were up more than 50% in the region.

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  • May 25, 2018
Commercial Question of the Week

Ari Ravi, Adam Palmer, Ryan Sampson, Wayne Ruben and Doug Dieck weigh in on what they believe will be the top performing commercial real estate asset for the rest of 2018

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WUSF radio format change gets support

Listeners of WUSF 89.7 FM apparently like what they hear since the public radio station changed to a primarily news format last year.

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Corporate Report

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AI's legal implications run deep

As the legal profession finally catches up with the technology, many questions linger.

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  • January 9, 2013
Fresh Start

When a large architecture firm pulled out of Fort Myers, two architects left behind started their own business. It's never too late to begin.

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Vote Search

Hillsborough County's judicial candidates appeal to Tampa Bay area trial lawyers.

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  • October 8, 2024
Hospital group offers free virtual health care during Milton

AdventHealth will open up its app-based video urgent care at no cost during the storm.

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  • November 5, 2020
Seeking the best and brightest — in hobbies and pastimes

Tell us about all the cool things you do outside of work.

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  • November 6, 2015
Look out, brother: New player in town

Oxford Capital Group, a Chicago-based investment firm, has big plans for its first foray into Tampa.

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