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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2008
Calendar of Events

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 25, 2024
Airport updates from Hurricane Helene at TPA, PIE, SRQ, RSW, PGD

Follow the Business Observer for updates on airport closures and flight cancellations as Helene approaches the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 10, 2024
$25M furniture showroom with wine bar to open in Sarasota County

City Furniture will open a 120,000-square-foot showroom off University Parkway.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 25, 2020
Chip away: Uncertainty, new organizers delay program's awards ceremony

One of the premier business events in Southwest Florida, the Blue Chip Community Business Awards, is going through a pair of pandemic-led changes.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 21, 2011
Chico's taps Gora/McGahey

The Fort Myers architects will lead the retailer's latest expansion efforts.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 26, 2024
Amazon to deliver latest technology in new 650,000SF Fort Myers center

The online retail giant plans to use its latest robotics technology at the fulfillment center it will build on State Road 82.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 2, 2024
Area resident donates $16M to support Sarasota cancer institute

Susan Milman, whose family was in commercial real estate, has now given at least $21 million to the the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 5, 2020
Pandemic crushes media firm’s profit, revenue

Beasley Broadcast Group took $26 million out of its cost structure to overcome pandemic challenges.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 27, 2013
Outback sears name to football bowl game

The steakhouse chain has sponsored the Outback Bowl for 19 years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 21, 2017
Restaurant chain targets 110 new locations

The Bradenton-based company plans 110 franchise openings by 2022.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 3, 2016
Hertz: Two-for-one HQ

When Lee County scored an economic development coup three years ago with the global corporate headquarters of Hertz from New Jersey, few could have forecast the region would land two corporate headquarters from the deal.

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  • March 24, 2015
Arnold Palmer-designed course scores new owner

The Legacy Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch opened in 1997.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 20, 2026
Fort Myers portfolio sells for $30 million

A New Jersey investor bought the industrial properties near Plantation Road.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2014
Chico's hung up in port

Imagine dozens of shipping containers full of apparel you hope to sell for the holidays steaming from Asia into a port on the West Coast.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 27, 2024
Holmes Beach businesses in recovery after car crashes

The storefronts are boarded up across the street from one another along a busy stretch of Marina Drive.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 10, 2012
North Port run poorly, say 55%

A new poll at the North Port EDC's website shows a lack of confidence.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2019
Irish pub chain opens new location in region

Irish 31 Pub House & Eatery opened its first location in 2011.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2015
New chiefs take over at Creative Contractors

Joshua Bomstein succeeds his father, Alan, as president, setting up his eventual move into the chief executive spot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 20, 2011
Executives see few rays of sun

Florida small business owners are a grouchy and grumpy bunch.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 27, 2012
Devonshire Park land sells for $8 million less

An affiliate of Sarasota-based Woodmere Capital Group purchased the vacant Devonshire Park property in downtown Sarasota along with its development approvals for $995,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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