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  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2023
SMH breaks ground on research and education institute

The $75 million project will enhance training programs and help retain physicians locally.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 23, 2023
New fire training tower in Tampa to boost firefighters' readiness

The city is building the tower as it fights to boost its budget in order to hire firefighters and buy ambulances.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 23, 2022
St. Pete developer seeks retailers for $80 million Edge District project

With groundbreaking near and condo sales brisk, Orange Station developers are in search of merchants to fill space.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2007
A different approach

Developer Leonard Gardner is asking for density increases and city funding to bring workforce housing downtown.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Tampa Bay Runner-Up 2

Dean Akers, CEO, Ideal Image Inc., Tampa: Dean Akers is an optimistic, straight-talker who shares folksy witticisms that reflect his upbringing in Lakeland - back when the place was a small town and many of the residents considered themselves southerners.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 17, 2005
Free Press (Sara/Mana)

LandMark Bank to open fifth banking centerMichael Saunders & Co. grabs conference awardsManatee Chamber announces recruitment campaign results

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 3, 2004
Free Press (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Sarasota University ranked second in doctorate degreesSarasota ad firmreceives first place Surveillance systems creator gets new designer Surveillance systemscreator gets new designer

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2009
Horizon Bay Hyde Park develops six-story building

Horizon Bay Hyde Park LLC purchased slightly less than two acres on South Boulevard and Horatio Street for $3.4 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2009
Feds may jack up Florida sewer bills

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to establish stringent, numeric nutrient water quality standards throughout the state will be impossible to meet and impose serious economic hardship, according to a coalition of Florida businesses, associations and public entities.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2013
Wheelock Street Capital, buys land, Ronto planning Goodlette Road development

The price equated to $1.12 million per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2011
New blog tracks Ponzi schemes across U.S.

Seems like there are blogs for everything these days. But Tampa attorney Jordan Maglich was surprised to learn no one, far as he could tell, monitored Ponzi schemes nationwide.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2012
Sarasota Association of Realtors to develop Cattlemen site

The Sarasota Association of Realtors and White Oak Development Ltd. have traded properties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2021
Local company receives premarket clearance on wound care product

The Omeza Collagen Matrix is the company's first medical prescription product.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 17, 2019
New art museum opens to public

After an adaptive reuse project, the museum takes over two former Sarasota High School buildings.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 17, 2020
Hospital teams with Mayo Clinic for COVID-19 clinical trial

Mayo Clinic is the lead institution providing coordinated access to investigational convalescent plasma.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 21, 2022
First peek of major downtown Sarasota redevelopment

Developers release renderings of the highly anticipated One Main Plaza in marketing materials.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 1, 2022
90 days in, sales at 46-story St. Pete luxury tower top $150 million mark

Construction at 400 Central has just begun and sales team seeing interest locally and nationally

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 30, 2018
UPS leases entire McCraney building in Polk County

UPS has signed a lease for the entire new 27 Logistics Park building that McCraney Property Co. of West Palm Beach recently completed in Davenport, in Polk County

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2018
Belle epoch: A new era begins for an iconic property

St. Petersburg, Florida-based JMC Communities has unveiled its reimagined version of the historic Belleview Biltmore Hotel in Belleair, Florida.

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2019
Furniture and doughnut shop expands in region

The Farmhouse is now open at 4001 Clark Road in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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