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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 16, 2024
Legendary Fort Myers Beach restaurant property sells for $3.65M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an Estero Ford dealership grows its service department and an investor borrows $82 million to buy a pair of Lutz apartment communities and a local construction company buys a Sarasota warehouse and office space.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 21, 2011
Forecast 2012: Lee-Collier

Comments from Bert Hamilton, Gary Griffin, and other Lee-Collier entrepreneurs.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2018
Area sets record for tourism revenue, posting 11% increase

Hillsborough County, Florida, collected nearly $34 million in revenue from the tourist development tax, also known as the bed tax, during the budget year that ended Sept. 30.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 29, 2025
Sarasota Memorial Health Care reaches agreement with Cigna

The health care system has a new contract with the health insurer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 7, 2008
Gulf Coast Week

Hillsborough to cut 25 jobsFranchisee files Chapter 11Ybor preserves commercialMore affordable housingMore housing layoffsEDC program expanLee stimulus packageBuilding permits remain lowCollier denies I-75 tolls

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  • May 22, 2008
Calendar of Events

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  • August 1, 2008
Calendar of Events

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  • January 1, 2012
A real estate Black Friday

Lower prices, combined with new market confidence are causing a bounce in retail interest.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 19, 2015
Commercial real estate profile: Ray Sandelli managing partner, CRE Consultants, Fort Myers

When Ray Sandelli got into the commercial real estate business after years as a pilot for the U.S. Navy and the famed Blue Angels, he found sales, especially cold calling potential clients, to be especially hard.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • September 9, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Hillsborough office sale, Pinellas multifamily sale — both over $30 million — lead the week in transactions.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2007
Coffee Talk

JBM Realty Advisors goes California dreamin' : Another Tampa company, JBM Realty Advisors, one of the nation's premier institutional multifamily brokerage firms, recently connected with a large out-of-state business, Sperry Van Ness.Sarasota Chamber looks to tomorrow with optimism: Sarasota Tomorrow, the capital campaign designed to prove businesses aren't just a necessary evil, kicked of its donation season with a big announcement: It has already raised $1.22 million - 60% of its $2 million goal.Condo project goes retro, sells most units: The following sentence wasn't lifted out of a 2005 Coffee Talk item: A Sarasota condo developer has been selling units at about the rate of one a week for three months, with the majority going to the contract stage Sarasota money manager dies from stroke: Gary Wood, founder of a Sarasota-based money management firm bearing his name, died Nov. 29, a few weeks after suffering a stroke. He was 68.HMA highlights chairman's stock sales: It's usually a routine affair when top executives sell stock of the company they manage.Foreign tourism slips, security issues blamed: Security concerns are making it more difficult for the Tampa Bay area to attract foreign visitors, a key component of the area's important tourism industry.Commercial brokers seek access to TICs: If the National Association of Realtors has its way with federal regulators, some commercial real estate brokers will have another way of m

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2007
Coffee Talk

Many of Florida's largest corporations continue to grow like wildfires before the summer rains. Tech Data Corp. just grabbed the 109th spot on the 2007 Fortune 500, only two spots behind Publix Super Markets, which held the No. 1 spot as the largest corporation in the state.Florida's current unemployment rate is now so low that based on a new study of online job vacancies, just about anyone in the Sunshine State who wants to work, can work. The Conference Board, a New York-based business research agency, reports that the number of unemployed in Florida as compared to online job vacancies is 1.1 to 1 - a virtual full employment that many Coffee Talk readers likely know all too well.The Tampa Bay area got the kind of economic report card last week that you don't want to crow about.A scorecard, released April 17 by the Tampa Bay Partnership, shows the seven-county region dropped to fourth place from third, when compared to five similar metro areas of Jacksonville, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham and Dallas. Only Jacksonville performed more poorly.. This year marks the 10th straight year that NRT was ranked as the top residential real estate firm in RIS Media's annual Power Broker report.Maybe executives fighting the hiring wars (see above item) can look to Florida's plethora of retirees.

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  • March 25, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: March 26 - April 1

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 18, 2022
Recession fears aren't slowing down RV industry's surge, area dealers say

The industry barrels past most talk about downturns and recessions.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 30, 2009
A Delicate Balance

A small software sales and consulting business has grown in spite of the recession. But its founder worries that stagnant days are coming.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 20, 2017
Drink Up

Tampa's Fintech is riding high on the success of its system for streamlining alcohol payment processing. Next up: Manage the rapid growth.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • September 2, 2021
Companies hope to avoid fights while requiring some jabs

Despite the seemingly endless polarization, some employers see vaccine requirements as a huge step forward in the war against the pandemic. But rolling out vaccine policies — and rolling up sleeves — isn't always a cinch.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2010
Sykes organic growth slow

Revenues were lifted by an acquisition, but otherwise they fell.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2010
Hoeper joins TRC

Technology Research Corp. added Paul Hoeper to its board of directors.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2011
Avantair buys another $7M jet

The Clearwater-based firm expands its fleet to include 58 aircraft.

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