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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2012
Construction company embraces its new normal

Even back in the boom, when Sarasota-based Southern Cross Contracting had construction work all over town, the firm's niche was projects outside the norm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2012
Halstatt Real Estate buys Manatee condos, land

Naples-based Halstatt Real Estate Partners purchased 19 unsold condominiums in the Manatee Bay Tower at the Waterside at Bay Beach, along with a building pad, for $7.35 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 27, 2012
Ship Sails Itself

The Ship on U.S. 41 in Bonita Springs has been a landmark for nearly two decades in various incarnations, including a steak house and a bingo hall. What will it become?

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2012
Partnership creates optimism downtown

One of the most prominent properties in downtown Sarasota is primed to become a high-end restaurant.

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  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 7, 2021
Boston investor buys downtown Tampa office building for $56 million

Farley White Interests’ acquisition of Two Harbour Place marks its fifth deal along the Gulf Coast

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 20, 2021
State's largest distribution center sells for $126.5 million

Tampa-based Cushman & Wakefield investment sales team brokers deal with IP Capital Partners and Torchlight Investors for former Sears space

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 20, 2021
Area mall lands eclectic list of new tenants

Westfield Brandon has added 11 new tenants to roster, a mix of the familiar and the brand new

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 9, 2021
Fortune 500 company buys local cybersecurity firm

CDW has purchased locally owned cybersecurity firm Focal Point for undisclosed amount

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 30, 2021
Comedy club embraces new style of seating in Wesley Chapel

Tampa's Side Splitters Comedy Club opens new location inside move theater complex in Wesley Chapel

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 30, 2021
Business surges at local port during pandemic

Port Manatee didn't take even a second to breathe in 2020. Instead, the port barreled through the pandemic in a move that paid off with a reported 55% increase in cargo.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 1, 2021
Historic resort sold to trio of companies, two with Florida ties

South Seas Island Resort sold, new owners “plan to elevate the guest experience"

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 26, 2021
Manufacturers association gets full-time executive director

Rob Harris of the Sarasota-Manatee Area Manufacturers Association has become the full-time executive director of the organization.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 14, 2021
Arkansas man charged in multimillion-dollar area event ticket scam

Federal grand jury has indicted a 52-year-old man for wire fraud after F.B.I. and the U.S. Dept. of Treasury investigation

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 22, 2021
Sale of shuttered mall approved by federal judge

A New York judge has approved the sale Bradenton's DeSoto Square Mall after three-day bankruptcy auction

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2021
Area real estate leader buys art-like mapping firm

Brokerage seeks to aid sales agents with new maps.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 29, 2020
Historic global wealth management firm acquires area company

Laidlaw Wealth Management adds offices in Tampa and Naples to its Florida portfolio.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2021
Private equity firm buys area robotics manufacturing firm

Sean Dotson founded RND Automation in 2005.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 3, 2020
California REIT buys Punta Gorda self-storage property

Strategic Storage Trust IV has acquired a Punta Gorda self-storage property that its former owner had converted from a Walmart store in 2018.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 18, 2020
Nuveen buys Lakeland building from Brennan

TIAA affiliate’s $41.2 million purchase marks the latest disposition of spec-developed asset in the Interstate 4 Corridor by Illinois developer

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 9, 2020
Community bank buys former SunTrust building for new HQ

Sanibel Captiva Community Bank also sold its current main office.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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