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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2016
Developer to rebrand $1.9M motel

The developer plans to remodel the 21-unit Elephant Ear Suites into the Siesta Inn & Suites.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • October 28, 2021
Opinion: Escape the (inflationary) rule of fools

Today’s inflation shows the ignorance and stupidity of politicians. History is rife with its tragic consequences.

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  • By Eric Garwood |
  • July 23, 2025
$376M Longboat resort reflects on first year of success, storms

The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort and Residences has made an outsized impact on Longboat Key and beyond.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • June 7, 2019
Marketing executives helped build brand behind innovative health care tech company

Sarasota-based Roxanne Joffe and Sam Stern's branding work with Voalte led to some significant victories.

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  • January 23, 2004
Millionaires Club

The four finalists for developing a project at Palm and Cocoanut avenues appear to have the experience and the funds to deliver.

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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • April 8, 2021
Lawn and garden business plants seeds for succession

While the second generation is under 30, seeds are being planted for an eventual handoff of the business.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 5, 2014
Why not to expand Medicaid

Nary a day goes by without some editorial writer haranguing Florida's governor and Republican-controlled Legislature for not taking federal tax dollars to expand Florida's Medicaid program.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • November 12, 2010
Celebration Service

Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes are trying new methods to help families through the mourning process. Customers have responded well, despite criticism from industry peers.

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  • May 6, 2011
Corporate Report: May 6

The latest news from Ceelox Inc., Technology Research Corp., and other Gulf Coast companies.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 24, 2024
What an effective president does

Senate President Kathleen Passidomo took her term to confront two threatening issues: workforce housing and doctor shortages. Time will tell whether she will be a goat or a GOAT.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 27, 2017
'Fever pitch'

From hockey to mega real estate deals to hiring executives, Jeff Vinik lives by one key theme: Preparation is key to victory.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • March 4, 2016
Quest for more

ReliaQuest is on track for employee growth of 150% in two years. How does it plan to manage that?

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 24, 2023
Publix commits to addressing food insecurity

The Lakeland grocery giant held a hunger summit to work with food banks on how to best get food to those in need — a growing population.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2007
A Different Tune

Not even a Gulf Coast-based guitar string company is immune to an off-key business climate.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 4, 2010
Grocer Super Battle

A move to turn more Walmarts into supercenters that sell groceries is afoot nationwide, with a focus on the Gulf Coast. Publix, the king of Florida supermarkets, is in for a fight.

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  • August 1, 2008
Transformers

Entrepreneurs Frank Clemente and Lynn McGhee create memories for companies, organizations and other customers by taking meeting rooms and turning them into a blaze of color, texture and sound.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 5, 2019
An Atypical Land Deal

Nancy Surak of Land Advisors Organization was awarded the Florida Gulfcoast Commercial Association of Realtors "Deal of the Year" for brokering the sale of 1,557 acres in a Pasco County master-planned community to Lennar Corp. for $26.54 million.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 21, 2017
Risk Analysis

Commodore Realty believes that despite the growth in online retail, its portfolio of properties can weather the e-commerce storm.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 6, 2023
Higher interest rates will slow residential developers looking for land

But demand for land to build multifamily in downtown Sarasota and other locations will remain healthy, says Ian Black Real Estate.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 20, 2005
Chain Plans Tampa Expansion

A national budget hotel chain looks at the Tampa Bay area market.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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