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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 27, 2019
Top Deals: Sarasota/Manatee

Apartments edged other sectors in top transaction activity in Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2019 as investors clamored to lock in yields, even as overall dollar volume dropped from the year before in absence of a few high-profile deals such as the sale

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2014
Corporate Report

Pushing the Envelope wins two Golden Image awards; Hertz debuts new mobile car app for trip planning, in-car GPS syncing; Discount Coupons Corp. buying Conejo Deals websites; Flameret subsidiary introducing hemp oil product and more corporate news.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 19, 2022
Polk County apartment sale tops $100 million

An apartment complex just off Interstate 4 sells to a Virginia real estate company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2018
Death and refunds

Florida filers get average refund of $2,877.

  • News
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 23, 2026
Tampa's Jimbo's Pit Bar B-Q temporarily closed after fire

The popular, long time eatery is undergoing repairs and temporarily shut down.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 22, 2026
Fort Myers land sold for future fire station

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a car dealer buys Fort Myers property, Lakeland grocers are changing names, and a global manufacturer expands in Manatee.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 26, 2020
Airports in region get boost from new routes

Passenger count at Tampa International Airport jumped 167% from April to May, report says.

  • News
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 6, 2025
3 RE/MAX franchises merge on Florida's west coast

The real estate firms now serve an area from Hernando to Collier counties.

  • Florida
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 23, 2019
Top Entrepreneurs: Ex-attorney cleans up with disruptive approach to business

Amy Martinez-Monfort's South Tampa, Florida, startup, Tampa Laundry Co., embraces modern comforts and conveniences.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 27, 2022
Sarasota apartment complex sells to Chicago investors for more than $120 million

Two years after buying complex, a New York firm more than doubles its money.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 24, 2024
Walgreens closing in-store medical clinics across Florida

The drugstore giant has already closed 14 of its VillageMD clinics, and the rest are expected to shutter mid-March.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2015
Corporate report

Paramedics Plus promotes two execs; Paramedics Plus promotes two execs; Wesco Turf wins industry excellence award; Tampa's No Mo Nausea wins Venture Hive pitch; NetDirector provides services to mortgage firm; Walter Investment Management approves poison pill

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 8, 2020
Company founder reaches high for next venture

Starting from his teens to nearly 50 years old, Barry Shevlin has had a passion for ideas. It’s led to some big entrepreneurial successes.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 18, 2026
$6.8 billion redevelopment plan gains supporters

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Florida Citizens' rates dropping nearly 10%, a $15 million renovation finishes in Naples, and a church buys a former radio station property in Tampa.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 1, 2022
90 days in, sales at 46-story St. Pete luxury tower top $150 million mark

Construction at 400 Central has just begun and sales team seeing interest locally and nationally

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Rich Mathews, 35

Owner, State Farm Insurance Agency

  • Class of 2013
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Kyle Taylor, 29

CEO, The Penny Hoarder, Taylor Media

  • Class of 2016
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Amy Barrett, 34

Senior associate, commercial services, Colliers International Tampa Bay

  • Class of 2015
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 18, 2018
Entrepreneur learns value of 'service first' strategy

Beth Starnes, retail, Entrepreneur

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 5, 2019
Real estate investment trust playing a growth game

HC Government Realty Trust has received a capital injection and new management from a Charlotte, N.C.-based investment company, as part of a strategy to boost the size of its portfolio of properties occupied by federal government agencies.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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