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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 7, 2019
Interior designer relocates to region from NYC

After 15 years of being based in New York City, Interior designer and industry blogger Sarah Baynes has relocated her business to Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2014
TECO Energy selling 15.5 million shares

The Tampa energy company plans to use the stock sale to pay for the $950 million purchase of New Mexico Gas Co.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 21, 2014
First Watch expands outside Baltimore

Fast-growing chain's new location will be in Gaithersburg, Md.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 3, 2016
College names new board leadership

The university elected a new chair and a new vice chair.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 2, 2015
Manatee Glens captures new affiliation, new name

Beginning in September, the longtime mental health group will become Centerstone of Florida.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 8, 2016
Not so lazy

Lazydays, the Seffner-based recreational vehicle giant, is adding a new brand of RVs to its fleet to help the firm make a push into a new market.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 18, 2024
Tampa's WestShore Plaza likely facing a future without Macy's

Just months after losing Dick's Sporting Goods, employees at the mall's Macy's store prepare to close.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 6, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

North Port hospital planned at North Sumter, I-75First Florida Bank building Charlotte branchSaunders acquires Strom & StromGemesis Corp. weighs expansion alternativesAM Engineering moves to trade centerWelsh buys land for retail projecTBoynton Beach firmbuys Westgate buildingSanibel physician buys Sunset buildingSalamander acquires Westin InnisbrookHIT Promotional expands to 118th AvenueLargo investor buys Ashley Oaks

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 24, 2023
Sarasota considers a new approach to workforce housing

A city commissioner suggests the city build and hold its own workforce housing developments. Staff is now working on a plan.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 29, 2025
Hospitality group, with debut in downtown Sarasota, to focus on small restaurants

Ten Tables Hospitality's go-small strategy flips the bigger-is-better mantra in restaurants — without skimping on the guest experience.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2008
CEO Solutions

CEO groups, such as the CEO Council and The Executive Committee, help chief executives manage their companies and lives.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 20, 2009
Emerald Opportunity

Two executives, one from technology and one from the construction field, are betting they will turn the latest go-green concept into gold.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 22, 2021
Resort-like compound with organic farm hits market for $20M

Broker plans to utilize Premier Sotheby’s International Realty in marketing.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • August 26, 2020
Shopping and dining area finds another hurdle in pandemic

The coronavirus is the latest in a series of blows to tenants of St. Armands Circle in Sarasota.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 18, 2005
Newsmakers (Sara/Mana)

Newsmakers is available free of charge.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • December 17, 2010
'Chase everything'

Rojo Architecture, a Tampa design firm, is out to prove a point that good building design can be handled more affordably. It's how the principals keep their own lights on.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 31, 2013
Rinse and repeat

A pair of entrepreneurs hopes to make good, for a second time, on an auto racing business. The risks, however, are thornier this go-around.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 5, 2011
Vroom with a View

A laid off executive-turned-entrepreneur is on a mission. His aim: to bring class, decorum and respectability to the auto and tire repair business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 12, 2012
Planting Roots

Russ Ringland is a commercial and residential builder in Lee County, but he's best known for planting more than 7,000 trees in Cape Coral. His goal: Plant 20,000 trees.

  • Strategies
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • August 14, 2015
Betting on Vets

A Tampa firm with offices on five continents has found success in helping military veterans find work.

  • Strategies
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