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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 13, 2020
Experts: Big game's benefits transcend attendance questions

Despite pandemic-driven uncertainty about its direct economic impact, Tampa Bay business leaders are optimistic about the Super Bowl's marketing value to the region.

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2020
Real estate executive doesn't mask the truth about reopening

Some industries are roaring to go.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 3, 2020
Developer buys fitness facility for $5.5 million, plans 207 homes

The property includes a 40,000-square-foot fitness facility with a Junior Olympic swimming pool, 29 tennis courts and a full-service restaurant.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2020
After $6M investment, amusement park owner sells facility

Pat and Lisa Ciniello have big plans for Zoomers Amusement Park.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Ted Carter |
  • May 18, 2018
Software firm programs 100% annual growth

Ryan Tremblay, founder of REfindly is one of the top entrepreneurs in Southwest Florida.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 18, 2018
Entrepreneur helps companies find ‘hero’ employees

At the helm of Sarasota-based employee recruiting company Rewired Solutions, Timothy Hearon focuses on goals every day.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2018
Baby boom

Do baby boomers have an exit strategy ready to go for their business? By one count, not really.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 13, 2019
Gulfstream Isles apartments sell for $109 million

Gulfstream isles, a Fort Myers apartment complex that set a record price when it sold three years ago, has traded again for an ever larger amount, at $109 million. A Dallas firm acquired the property as part of a growth strategy.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 27, 2019
Subscription box business takes home industry award, plans for new product

Sarasota-based We Craft Box will introduce We Craft Box Senior soon.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 27, 2019
Grove at Wesley Chapel to expand

MGold Properties and Mishorim Investments, which in September acquired the Grove at Wesley Chapel retail center for $62.7 million, plan to invest another $150 million to nearly triple the size of the existing center with new offerings.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 8, 2019
Institutional buyer purchases Sarasota shops

New York Life Insurance Real Estate Investors' purchase of the Whole Foods Market-anchored Shoppes at Sarasota Row, in downtown Sarasota, marks the first regional deal for the institutional investor.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 15, 2019
National retailer puts a heart on Sarasota with glossy catalog

Sarasota architecture plays starring role in J. McLaughlin spring catalog.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 6, 2018
New Florida grocery space outpacing the rest of the nation

State ranks fifth in the U.S. for new food outlets

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 10, 2017
Lawsuit: Bankers diluted investors

The October 2014 acquisition of Tampa-based Florida Bank Group, a $90 million deal, seemed like a classic “win-win,” at the time. The buyer, Lafayette, La.-based IberiaBank, continued its broad expansion into Florida, while Florida Bank Group board members and some investors received a lucrative payday.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 19, 2018
Tax reform expected to boost CRE profits, investment

Tax Cut and Jobs Act will help investors and landlords alike.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
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CEO, Global HR Research

  • Class of 2013
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 18, 2013
'Fine Fundamentals'

The national economy has a chance to grow at least 3% in 2014, one analyst says. The potential hurdle is a common business foe: the federal government.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 30, 2014
A New Cycle

Commercial real estate firms position themselves to benefit as buildings fill with new tenants and rents rise. Commercial Property Southwest Florida, the Cushman & Wakefield office in Fort Myers, is boosting its ranks.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 5, 2014
Rugged by Design

There are tough places where few computers can safely venture. One Southwest Florida-based company designs computers so rugged they can withstand intense conditions.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 25, 2013
Opportunity seeker

Minnesota-based Central Bank has established a beachhead in Fort Myers and Naples.

  • Finance
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