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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 17, 2025
SeaPort Manatee receives $2M state grant for infrastructure upgrades

The port in Manatee County was given a grant to help accommodate its growing truck traffic.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 16, 2024
Historic $93M in donations funds Sarasota Memorial's cancer center

As the demand for cancer care grows, the campus of the Jellison Cancer Institute expands with help from philanthropists making historic contributions to the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • February 22, 2025
Tampa contractor ordered to pay $55 million, serve 4 years in prison

A Pasco man who ran a wood-framing construction company for residential homes out of Tampa was sentenced for charges including fraud, tax evasion and workplace violations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 4, 2025
Sarasota Sheriff: 2 charged, 117 slot machines seized in gambling bust

An investigation at Magic Arcade netted two arrests and prompted Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Sheridan Morby |
  • January 30, 2026
Florida chamber: State GDP projected to outpace US — again — this year

The Sunshine State’s rapid population growth will slow a bit in 2026, officials project, but that’s also more sustainable over the long-term.

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • December 2, 2023
Tampa hospital completes $300M acquisition, forms new unit

Tampa General Hospital has acquired Bravera Health, the hospital's largest expansion in recent years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 21, 2026
One year in, growing St. Pete insurer posts $2M profit

Patriot Select Property and Casualty Insurance Co. was launched at a time Florida regulators and leaders were looking to lessen the burden on homeowners — and state-run Citizens Property Insurance.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 20, 2006
40 Under 40 Winners Page 1

Christine AlexanderNeil P. ArchibaldJoe ArmeniaCeci Culpepper BermanJoshua BomsteinLuis A. 'Tony' CabassaBryan ChavisMichael CorleyWilliam Dean CrowleyDaniel DeLisi

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 15, 2023
Sarasota architecture firm adds new office in Tampa Bay region

Sweet Sparkman opened the new studio in St. Petersburg after working on several projects in the area.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2009
Sarasota golf course used in national test

A suburban Philadelphia company thinks it has found the answer to water conservation problems that plague golf courses nationwide — and it's using a Sarasota golf course to prove it.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2009
Hometown Democracy or Mutually Assured Destruction?

Hometown Democracy, the state constitutional amendment going to voters in November, is known in some circles merely as “HD” and also increasingly as Amendment 4 because that's the number assigned to it on the ballot.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 25, 2010
Port Dolphin Energy signs with Port

The Manatee County Port Authority has approved a long-term $30 million agreement with Port Dolphin Energy LLC for it to lease 35 acres at the port and additional property for its pipeline.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2010
WCI retires $300M in debt

The company has reduced its debt by 68% in the past 15 months.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2011
Fort Myers Toyota sold

The Templeton family agreed to sell the dealership to AutoNation.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 3, 2010
TV studio in Lakewood Ranch

Officials say an unnamed production business could create 117 jobs.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2010
GreenPointe Communities buys Triple Creek land

In its second major purchase in the Riverview area in the past month, Jacksonville-based developer GreenPointe Communities bought 1,038-acres for $14.75 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 17, 2013
Sarasota 2050 plan faces possible revisions

Developers in Sarasota County won a small victory recently when county commissioners, by a 4-1 vote, agreed to reopen Sarasota 2050 to possible revisions.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2013
Manatee County slashes building permit fees

A 10% decrease follows a 6% cut announced last year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
College try pays off

University of Tampa enrollment continues to grow, despite recession-led pressures on colleges nationwide to maintain and expand student counts.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 18, 2013
Citicorp exec pleads guilty

She spent company funds on Bucs games, travel and car expenses, feds say.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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