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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 8, 2019
Frontier selling vacant Clearwater office building

Frontier Communications has hired CBRE to sell a vacant four-story office building in Clearwater it acquired in 2016 when buying Verizon land lines in Florida.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 27, 2018
Feldman team unveils design for 52-story tower

Riverwalk Place would be tallest structure along Gulf Coast

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 2, 2024
Florida firm tapped to study Sarasota's economic landscape

A market study will identify current and future opportunities in the city of Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 15, 2024
Private equity-backed Miami car wash expands in Southwest Florida

Miami-based El Car Wash, with one location in Naples and one in Fort Myers, is expanding in Southwest Florida with an acquisition.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 29, 2016
Investors earn handsomely

After a decade in management roles at Morgan Stanley, including stints in New York and London, Trevor Burgess sought to get into community banking in 2008, somewhere in Florida.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 9, 2005
In Hot Pursuit

Now that Palm Beach environmentalists have blocked construction of a Scripps Research Institute development, state Sen. Mike Bennett is trying to bring it to the Babcock Ranch.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 6, 2019
Area tax preparer convicted in $4 million tax fraud scheme

False claims filed on behalf of his clients exceeded $4 million over a four-year period.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2014
Bringing home the goods

Sarasota-based product design and development firm Robrady recently earned some global recognition for work on a portable fuel cell it did in conjunction with a New York engineering firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 24, 2015
Arnold Palmer-designed course scores new owner

The Legacy Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch opened in 1997.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2010
Maddux Business Report closes

After 26 years, the magazine will publish its final issue in June 2010.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 23, 2016
A new day at the dock

Officials at the Bird Key Yacht Club, which has a long and notable history in the Sarasota area, faced some significant issues in 2013.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 28, 2025
Polk County's Legoland to lay off more than 200 employees

The Winter Haven resort and theme park announced the cuts in a letter to state officials posted Tuesday.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2021
Homebuilder buys 440-acre site for nearly $25 million

Pulte Homes plans a 821-home community on the site.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2012
Stock Development's upbeat outlook

One of the first signs of an improving housing sector is when homebuilders can raise prices.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 20, 2015
Foreign investment group buys Palmetto's Oakwood Village

A foreign investor group led by Manuel Rebecchi of Sarasota purchased the 120-unit Oakwood Village apartments for $3 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 22, 2021
Midwest developer plots Florida debut with major mixed-use project

A $64 million mixed-use project marks several milestones for Cape Coral. And city boosters and officials believe the Southwest Florida locale is on the cusp of even bigger things.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • August 30, 2019
Patient developer tackles several challenges in latest project

Mike Miller uses a bend-but-not-break approach.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 1, 2013
Warm Up

The pitfalls of government owning a tourist destination are front and center in south Sarasota County. Now the future of a multimillion-dollar site is in jeopardy.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2021
Urban transformation project seeks $30 million federal grant

The Greater Dunbar Initiative is one of five finalists.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 30, 2021
Health care giant to build 100-bed hospital in region

HCA Healthcare’s announcement follows another one from Lee Health.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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