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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • December 27, 2019
Popular farm market — fresh off expansion — plans more customer-centric innovation

Detwiler’s Farm Market opened a store on Clark Road in Sarasota in November.

  • Strategies
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 10, 2013
Cubical comeback

When the office furniture business took a dive, Steve Freedman went upstream in the supply chain in search of better margins. He found a new business model as well.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2007
Coffee Talk

Big payout looms for Radiation Therapy: Who says private equity deals are dead?Switching up,not giving up: To a developer with major moxie, bad news is just a niggling detail - even bad news like, say, a seriously slumping housing market, where in particular, downtown Sarasota condo sales are as rare as towels in a nudist colony.Another knock against Hometown Democracy: Add Tampa land broker Bruce Erhardt to the list of business people questioning the wisdom of Florida Hometown Democracy, a statewide ballot movement that, if passed, would require citizens to make all major land-use decisions via referendums.Expansion knows no bounds: Brown & Brown, a Tampa- and Daytona Beach-based insurance company, continued its national expansion march this month with the acquisition of Professional Risk Managers of New York.A complicated simplification: Gevity, the Lakewood Ranch-based human resources outsourcing firm struggling with a battered stock price and more recently, a resigned chief executive, says the answer to its problems is to regroup and undertake a simplified and solidified approach to its business.Exodus continues from troubled WCI: The exodus from the corporate ranks of WCI Communities continues as the Bonita Springs-based homebuilder struggles with a brutal housing market.Atlanta nightclub owner hits the links in Naples: Atlanta-based strip club owner Jack E. Galardi of Galardi South Enterprises, has turned his attention

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 18, 2019
Retirement community adds apartments, golf studio with $45 million project

The redevelopment includes 51 new independent living residences and a golf studio with two golf simulators.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 28, 2023
Interest rates hurting housing inventory as homeowners hold on tight

A real estate firm CEO encourages agents to stay the course as interest rates throw the market into uncertainty.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2011
New Goodwill store to hire 20

A new location in Arcadia will require 20 additional employees.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • September 30, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $50 million apartment complex sale in Tampa paces transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 30, 2025
Tampa's Busch Gardens will get $40 million in improvements

The local theme park announced that the upgrades will include new animals and major overhaul to Adventure Island.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2003
Real Estate Briefs (Sarasota-Manatee edition)

This week's items: Sysco Food Services to expand warehouse The Weiner Cos. buys land for Tire Kingdom Inovart buys two buildings, sells current officeSandcastles of Sarasota acquires Collingwood and more...

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 13, 2020
Transition plan: Insurance firm tackles two big moves at once

As it prepares to move to new headquarters and sees its leader depart, Clearwater, Florida-based Heritage Insurance Holdings faces a critical juncture.

  • Insurance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 24, 2011
Disney hikes ticket prices ... again

It's going to cost you to visit Mickey and Minnie: For the second time in 10 months, Walt Disney World is raising its ticket prices.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2018
US Green Building Council head visits area residential community

Mahesh Ramanujam traveled to Bradenton recently to acknowledge 100 homes that earned LEED Platinum certification in Mirabella, developed by Marshall Gobuty.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2013
Baptist Slavic church buys New Life center building

The price equated to $72 per square foot.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 27, 2023
Barnes & Noble to open first new Tampa store in 15 years

The bookseller, which is adding more stores this year than in the past decade, is moving to a new, smaller, location after 29 years on Dale Mabry.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2012
Corporate Report: June 15

Burger 21 expands, Brown & Brown promotes, Tech Data wins an award and Yippy buys a Canadian web company.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 23, 2018
Auteur developer believes new Sarasota condo project will be a work of art

The development team behind the planned 18-story Auteur condo in Sarasota believes that its project will succeed despite heightened competition and macro-economic forces thanks to its water-view location and unique design and amenities

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 29, 2016
Commercial repeat

Despite high valuations and concerns about economic growth, experts say commercial real estate will repeat with another year of solid performance.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 25, 2011
Make Friends First

Hazelden, a Minneapolis-based addiction-center operator, defused fears of competition and avoided the fate of Cleveland Clinic in Naples by partnering with local providers.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 23, 2016
New focus

The sudden death of a company leader didn't derail a prominent area architecture firm.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2011
Checkers set to expand in 2011

The Tampa-based burger chain will soon add 12 new restaurant locations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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