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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2015
Super day for financial firm

For the second year in a row, executives with Sarasota-based Global Financial Private Capital were invited to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2014
Punta Gorda airport traffic takes off

Passenger traffic at the Punta Gorda Airport continued to post rapid growth in November.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 15, 2014
Algae grower wins biofuel award

Algenol Biofuels wins the 2014 Global Energy Award for Industry Leadership in Biofuels at a gala ceremony in New York City.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2015
Regional council elects chair

The Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council elected Robert Mulhere as chairman of the agency that reviews growth management.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 10, 2024
Sarasota hospital foundation names top finance official

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation has named Shana Meadows director of finance and operations.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 24, 2023
84-year-old fruit farm, tourist spot listed for sale for $16 million

Mixon Fruit Farms in Bradenton is nearly 40 acres.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 12, 2025
Sarasota insurance agency acquires employee benefits firm

Atlas Insurance Agency has acquired Atlas Employee Benefits.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2010
JPMorgan Chase Bank buys Lakewood Ranch bank building

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA purchased a 4,949-square-foot former LandMark Bank of Florida branch for $2 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 31, 2004
Tourism to Pick Up

Tourism officials expect the new year to be a good one for visitors to the Gulf Coast.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • October 9, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2020
CBD firm on high growth track surpasses $5M in sales

Proleve Distribution also plans to add 20 employees.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2020
Company files bankruptcy, reveals more massive layoffs

Week that started with a new CEO ends with bankruptcy.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2017
Developer vindicated

“I'd like to have won all of it, but this case was a major factor for change. The bad people who were in this town are gone.” — Hugh Culverhouse Jr.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2006
Out of space

Collier County has some of the lowest vacancy rates for office space on the Gulf Coast. But don't expect a surge in new construction anytime soon.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 7, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Bennett defends billThe Argus Foundation is having a barn burner of an event on May 13It's almost make-it or break-it time for Sarasota's Infinium Labs Legal profession, state survive

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • January 3, 2020
Area developer moves forward on future apartments, restaurants

Naples-based Stock Development and its Stock Luxury Apartment Living division is developing Fruitville Commons in Sarasota.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 17, 2020
Long-stalled Murdock Village to get new life as Westport

Kolter Group aims to build hundreds of homes and Private Equity Group apartments, hotel rooms at long-stalled Murdock Village property in Charlotte County

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 14, 2018
Water Street Tampa poised for a trio of new office offerings

Strategic Property Partners, after focusing on hotels, restaurants and residences the past two years, is preparing to develop a trio of new office buildings as part of its $3 billion downtown Tampa project

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 30, 2025
Goodwill retail store to be built on Ruskin site that sold for $2.6M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a downtown Sarasota building is up for sale, Pasco is getting a $200 million baked goods building, and a Fort Myers furniture store is listed.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 11, 2024
Tampa Bay Rays make a last stand, with future now up to St. Pete City Council

As St. Petersburg's governing body takes up a $6 billion team-led redevelopment with a stadium, the Rays president says a move — out of Tampa Bay — remains possible without an agreement.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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