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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 4, 2020
Partnership buys land, plans $22M affordable housing project

Civitas of Cape Coral will have one, two and three bedroom units.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 4, 2025
Jabil to pay $750M for energy management company

The St. Petersburg company says it has agreed to pay $750 million for the Northern Virginia and Irish company that specializes expert in power systems and energy optimization.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 10, 2026
Aldi plans new store in south Sarasota County

The grocer is building a 12,000-square-foot location in Wellen Park.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 17, 2024
Badcock's bankrupt Texas parent cutting nearly 70 jobs in Lakeland

Conn's Inc. has told state officials it will lay off the employees at its Lakeland center as part of the wind down brought on by the bankruptcy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Contemporary Cabinets buys Coke plantOE Racing moves to Centre buildingInvestor buys tattoo parlorVegas developer plans Westshore ElementTampa developer buys Mercantile BuildingHonolulu investors buy Tampa AutoZoneGVA gets Oldsmar GalleriaPF Holdings buys Lynwood SquareTimberstone Group buys Arborgate landPro-Build closes on Cox Lumber land

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2007
Prescription for Success

Get doctors and nurses involved in the medical-supply buying process and an amazing thing happens: hospitals save millions of dollars. Here's how a cooperative effort by two Southwest Florida hospital groups does it.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 19, 2006
Real Estate Briefs

Signature Communities Inc. acquires Naples Vanderbilt InnWalport Properties buysCollier Boulevard SquareDRD Murdock Circle Executive CenterMichael Saunders office expands on Longboat KeyJohn McKay buys Parrish landLowe's buys land in North PortHotel industry veterans purchase Tampa blockVision 193 LLC buys 5th Avenue ApartmentsTarpon Restaurant Services buys Pappa's Riverside

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 28, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Parking garage design suggests office/retail lookBuilders buy historic downtown propertyNew Marble Slab Creamery opens in Sarasota PavilionSchroeder-Manatee Ranchprepares for arena land sale

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 21, 2012
Magic Carpet

Philip Gutierrez steered Abbey Carpet Co. successfully through the housing boom and bust. His secret: Let the franchisees run their own businesses.

  • Strategies
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 9, 2018
New upscale senior living communities riding the gray wave

Age-restricted and assisted living communities are evolving. Several facilities in the region — including one with a $120 million investment — are on the crest of innovation.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 29, 2023
$3.5B real estate brokerage, in a digital world, keeps opening offices

Naples-based John R. Wood Properties shows no signs of slowing down as it surpasses 65 years in business. Neither does its president and CEO.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 18, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

eComSystems Inc. moves, buys Paleo Park buildingMassachusetts investor buys Healthsouth BuildingWellness Community set to buy ranch landPremier Performance owners buy Bradenton propertyWilliams Parker buys buildingPhillips Development & Realty plans Delaney Creek projectKlar plans new homeless facilitySt. Pete Beach hotelier buys Bay Palms ResortEntrepreneur buys apartmentsEmeritus buys Fort Myers' The LakesLee County buys 67 acres for preserveGates D'Alessandro, Woodyard becomes just WoodyardGulfsteam Homes, BB&Ttrades home, lots

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2007
Growth Snatchers

A Gulf Coast firm with a niche in making synthetic lifelike body parts for medical testing seeks $1 million in real investment money.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 13, 2007
Moving On

Imagine buying a business that relies on the former owner to manage the day-to-day operations. Then, he dies.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 31, 2007
The Genius of Cape Coral

A Southwest Florida man came up with an ingenious device to make an oil change less messy. Then a competitor almost sidelined him.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 15, 2005
Taming the Trail

Bradenton consultants push a project and development incentives as the best and quickest method to rejuvenate the sagging 14th Street corridor.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 17, 2006
Follow the Roads

If you want a good indicator of where to invest for future growth, a good place to start is with the state's road-building plans. If you build them, they will come.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 8, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana)

Rodriguez's encore: Sarasota developer Henry Rodriguez is expected to unveil his next real estate project in the next several weeks.We're No. 1: Does the Tampa Bay area have more white-collar crooks than anywhere else in Florida?Hooter en Espanol: Sarasota-based Nuevo Advertising Group and Provident Advertising and Marketing are designing a Hispanic marketing plan for the restaurant chain Original Hooters, which operates 16 Hooters locations.Kolter weighs options: After acquiring the three-acre former Metropolitan property at U.S. 41 and Gulf Stream Avenue in downtown Sarasota, Toronto-based Kolter Property Co. appears to be taking its time digesting its new purchase.Restaurateur buys Fumble In: Miles and Mindy Millwee, owners of Hillview Grill and Madfish Grill restaurants, purchased the Bradenton icon Fumble In Sports Pub & Grill, 2505 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton, for $990,000.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 4, 2008
Walsh: Review and Comment

Foreclosure moratorium great PR, but that's all

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2008
One Eye on Markets

The near collapse of Bear Stearns has made some commercial real estate sales more difficult and has the industry on guard for similar news.

  • Entrepreneurs
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