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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 13, 2013
Kite Realty Group Trust buys Colonial Promenade Burnt Store

The price equated to $51 per square foot.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 26, 2014
Open Door Preschool buys bank-owned London Plaza

Open Doors Preschool Inc. purchased the 17,807-square-foot London Plaza for $1.1 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 26, 2014
Florida Crystals buys Finergy's Channelside land

West Palm Beach-based Florida Crystals Corp. purchased the 1.89-acre Amazon Hose and Rubber site in the Channelside District a for $3.84 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2014
Lofton Meadows sells for $11 million to Davie's JBH Equities

Davie-based JBH Equities purchased the 166-unit Lofton Meadows community for $11.2 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 17, 2014
Benderson Development Co. LLC buys Dillard's in Southgate Mall

University Park-based Benderson Development Co. LLC purchased the 96,312-square-foot Dillard's department store at Southgate Mall for $10 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2015
Hertz stock dented on earnings

The stock of rental car giant Hertz fell 9.4% after it reported financial results that disappointed investors.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 17, 2015
Prominent developer pledges $1M to food bank

All Faiths Food Bank distributed 7.1 million pounds of food last year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2015
Roper buys two more firms for $450M

Conglomerate acquires one company in Pittsburgh and another in Vermont.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2015
TerraCap Investment firm buys Bradenton's Harbour Pointe

An investment firm of TerraCap Management LLC purchased the 234-unit Harbour Pointe of Bradenton Apartments for $21.12 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 20, 2015
Failure to launch: Bright House deal iffy

Fresh off its unsuccessful attempt to acquire Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications Inc. is potentially making a bid for Bright House Networks, the second-largest cable operator in Florida.

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  • April 13, 2015
Dallas REIT buys Tampa, Orlando apartments

The $119.9 million deal includes Hunters Green in Tampa, as well as the Millenia and MetroWest areas of Orlando, and Davenport's ChampionsGate.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 27, 2026
Unnamed local buyer set to buy noted Charlotte County waterfront retail center

The sale of Fishermen's Village, which includes retail space, restaurants and a marina, is expected to close this summer.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 18, 2008
Coffee Talk

The ever growing Price Guarantee Club: Sarasota-based developer Rob Morris is balancing an odd mix of anxiety and confidence as he seeks buyersLee County's first signs of hope: It's hard to find much good news about Lee County's housing market.Weight loss chain comes to Florida: Physician-directed Hy-Tech Weight Loss, a chain of weight loss centers based in Omaha, Neb., has opened a St. Petersburg locationSafest place for housing in Lee County: Matlacha: If the Lee County area has the worst rate of foreclosure in the countryTampa gets two new conventions: Siting good prices, available hotels, the convention center and the weather, two Washington-based associations have picked Tampa as the site of their 2010 and 2011 conventionBeall's finally gets new president: Bradenton-based retailer Beall's has hired Lana Cain KrauterBradenton land firm clear out of options: The real estate market slump has snared its latest victim: Bradenton-based Earthworks Land Development

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  • August 31, 2007
An (Unusual) Family Matter

Going public could prove to be the easiest move Kesselring Holding Corp. ever made. The toughest? Moving on without its founder.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 6, 2022
Two for 2022: A look at commercial real estate in the new year

The hotter than hot market might show signs of cooling off in 2022 — with dwindling inventory a chief concern among several industry experts.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 26, 2013
Senior priority

The lack of new senior housing and the growing demand is pushing development in Southwest Florida. Financing is the only thing holding it back.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2008
Purse strings

Anita Spector turned apersonal interest in making purses into a business that could vault her to fashionstardom. Her son, Jeffery Spector, helped her turn her creativity into business reality.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 13, 2015
Avoiding mediocrity

Sweet Sparkman Architects has carved out a niche designing cutting-edge, budget-minded buildings for governments and institutions.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 20, 2006
Coffee Talk

WCI Communities: A buying opportunity?: At what point do the stocks of homebuilders become so ridiculously cheap that they're worth buying?Military salute: Sarasota resident Burt Bershon has been recognized for his efforts to bring military academies back to U.S. communities. Bershon, who founded the Sarasota Military Academy in 2002, was recently awarded an Eagle Laureate for creating The Charter Military Schools Development Corp. in late 2003.Former Buccaneer Warren Sapp is back: NFL Star Warren Sapp, a defensive tackle who helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win their only Super Bowl, plans to open a HipHopSodaShop on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, near the University of South Florida.Davis Lucas offers business-ethics insight: Davis Lucas, the chairman of Bonita Springs-based residential developer The Bonita Bay Group, makes few public appearances and when he does, it's usually for the benefit of a local charity.Condominium's loss is apartment's gain: So with the condo conversion market way down, is it truly gloom-and-doom time for the apartment market? Not completely.Paying premium prices at the pump: The high price of gas is reaching into entrepreneurs and executives' pockets yet again.Bleak showing for Florida venture capitalists:Just two Florida firms made Entrepreneur magazine's 2005 list of the top 100 venture capital firms, and both, Palm Beach Capital Partners and HIG Capital Management of Miami, are based in South Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 5, 2009
Madness to the Method

There is a cottage industry of consultantsand others built around impact fees. Should the "art" of regulatory fees be regulated?

  • Entrepreneurs
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