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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 6, 2025
Retired NFL player Michael Lehan opens dessert store in Bradenton

Peach Cobbler Factory offers several sweets, including a variety of cobblers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • February 18, 2026
Second MarineMax shareholder urges sale of company

Levin Capital Strategies is urging the company to consider an activist investor’s $1.1 billion offer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 8, 2019
Senior care firm to open $27.5 million facility

Solvere Living, the operations division of St. Petersburg, Florida-based Solutions Advisors Group, has planned a May 16 grand opening for Tessera of Westchase, its latest assisted living and memory care community.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 10, 2017
Equity everywhere

Money being made in private-equity deals, on a relative basis, took a sizable dip in 2016 over the previous two years, according to the latest Bain & Co. Global Private Equity Report.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 14, 2013
Executives look to punt recession

he latest sign the recession is truly receding: Florida business owners, at least the ones who responded to an American Express Open Small Business survey, pay themselves, on average, $75,500 a year.

  • News
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • January 15, 2026
USF climbs national research rankings, outpaces peers

The University of South Florida has increased research spending by nearly 29% over the past two years, according to a new report.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 20, 2018
Tampa REIT buys second property for portfolio

Generation Income acquires Starbucks at discount to appraised value

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2010
Lee bonds draw a diverse crowd

News that $56.1 million in federal tax-exempt financing is available for Lee County businesses has generated considerable interest.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 18, 2010
Dais' losses continue

Odessa-based Dais Analytic, a nanotechnology firm, is still growing.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 21, 2011
Publix Super Markets buys Madeira center

Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased the 80,167-square-foot Madeira Shopping Center for $7.97 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2010
Restaurateurs offer feasts to bowl fans

The Tampa Bay area has the unique distinction of having two college football bowl games sponsored by locally based national restaurant chains.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2011
Madness sells, along with music

Tampa is normally a pretty active town on weekends, but things were exceptionally busy March 17-20 at two local venues.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2013
Tech firm ponders IPO

xG Technology, a wireless communications company, could be headed to the Nasdaq.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2011
Canadian investment group buys MacDill Landings units

Vancouver, British Columbia-based A.J. Galbraith & Associates Ltd. purchased 21 residential condominium units in the 28-unit MacDill Landings for $1.84 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 22, 2011
Lennar Homes buys 96 lots in Copper Cove Preserve

Miami-based homebuilder Lennar Corp. purchased 96 single-family home lots in the 137-lot Copper Cove Preserve community for $2.83 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2011
Vengroff sells unit to $8B firm

A French firm makes a big bet to up its partnership with local business.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2013
Sarasota real estate firm Gravitas buys Punta Gorda aggregate, shell mine

The price equated to $9,250 per acre.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 16, 2012
University Plaza acres sell for $1.2 million

The price equated to $678,977 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2012
Beneva Road building sells for $1 million

The price equated to $136 per square foot.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 30, 2012
Store Master Funding II buys, leases Manatee Learning Academy

The price equated to $114 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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