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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 17, 2025
Revised Sarasota bayfront arts center complex cost estimate: $407M

Instead of four structures, the architect for the Sarasota Performing Arts Center has scaled plans back to two buildings with an option for a future second, smaller theater.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 5, 2024
Tervis files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The 78-year-old manufacturer believes the setback, stemming from multiple factors, will allow the business to come back stronger and better.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2008
Hard Times

County governments throughout the Gulf Coast are in the throesof a budget crisis as the economic downturn lingers. One countycommissioner hopes to bring businesses back into the conversation.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 5, 2009
Walsh: Review and Comment

A wish list to reverse economic trend lines

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 25, 2023
St. Pete firm motors ahead on big plans to move fuel via rail lines

Belvedere Terminals' $750 million fuel delivery system will use specially designed railcars to haul 50 million barrels a year along the east coast of Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 29, 2006
Corporate Report

Look at company briefs from around the Gulf Coast for free.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 24, 2009
Stimulus Success

A local construction company is one of three firms poised to capitalize on a federal economic recovery program in 2010. But working so closely with government is enough to make any entrepreneur jittery.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 28, 2017
Feel of Steel

Change is hard — especially after seven decades. But for Tervis, risk of inaction outweighed other worries.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 5, 2016
Safety first

Two well-known Southwest Florida technology entrepreneurs formed a company to help small- and medium-sized businesses defend themselves from data breaches.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2006
Coffee Talk

Executives at Radiation Therapy Services spent the holidays refuting a Forbes magazine article they called "insulting and misleading."Last week's Review featured 2007 predictions, projections and prognostications from more than a dozen Gulf Coast area CEOs, from industries such as construction, insurance and banking. A bevy of chief marketing officers at nationwide retailers are looking forward to a strong 12 months. Fort Myers should take a cue from Dick Greco, who ordered the removal of parking meters Ybor City when he became mayor of Tampa in the 1990s.His reasoning: Why try to attract people to shop and dine in Ybor City and then ticket their cars when the meters run out?A group of Southwest Florida legislators says voters shouldn't expect much to happen during the upcoming special session of the state legislature.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 18, 2010
Market Blizzard

Supersize has given way to mini-me as the recession grinds on. But smaller portions could mean bigger profits for Dairy Queen franchisees if tests on the Gulf Coast prove successful.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 3, 2025
Prominent Sarasota corporate HQ up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Naples high-end shopping center gets an upgrade, a Tampa condo complex to be "repositioned" as rental apartments, and Manatee buys a historic farm.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 13, 2023
Soap retailer closes out year with four new retail locations

Naples Soap Co. celebrates its 15-year anniversary next year.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 13, 2023
Florida's new insurance commissioner loses interim tag

The Financial Service’s Commission has approved Gov. Ron DeSantis' pick for Office of Insurance Regulation, Michael Yaworsky.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2008
Adjudicated: Success

A court set up for small-scale business cases gets clogged with so much work that it has to call a timeout.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 13, 2009
Adjudicated: Success

A court set up for small-scale business cases gets clogged with so much work that it has to call a timeout.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 18, 2009
Rail bill's own breakfast-gate

In an apparent attempt to evade capture by public records requests, “pancakes,” “waffles” and “French toast” were used as code words in e-mails about rail legislation between top officials at the Florida Department of Transportation and perhaps others involved in crafting the bill approved by the Legislature during the recent special session.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • January 7, 2011
Government Digest: Jan. 7 - Jan. 13

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 15, 2013
Rack attack could be on the way

Speculation is high that the Sarasota-Manatee market could be the next target for Nordstrom Rack.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2012
LBK Club eyes joint venture

A joint venture deal has been drafted to help the resort achieve its expansion plans.

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