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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2006
Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk: Southwest may add Fort Myers flightsThe real estate market may be in the dumps, but at least one segment of the advertising industry that caters to it - billboards - is booming. Sarasota employers are not an optimistic bunch, according to Manpower Inc.'s most recent employment outlook survey.Coral Gables-based Cornerstone Group is touting its new all-concrete town home community as the cure to homeowners' insurance woes.If the residential real estate market is in a slump, you wouldn't know it based on investors' appetites.Morgan Stanley executives say they've raised $1.75 billion for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V U.S., the institutional fund that recently bought Babcock Ranch in partnership with West Palm Beach developer Syd Kitson. Tampa-based Suncoast Roofers Supply (profiled in the May 12 Review) has opened its 15th location, this one in Gainesville, home of the University of Florida Gators.When the public sector borrows from the business world, it tends to raise eyebrows and lower costs. In Sarasota County, that lesson is coming home in the Office of Financial Planning.Pulte Homes and its DiVosta subsidiary are two of the best homebuilders on the Gulf Coast for customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Power and Associates. Yet another Palm Avenue development RFPThere's an anti-development fight in St. Pete Beach, a south Pinellas County coastal community of 10,000, and Wa

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  • March 14, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

New York group develops airport parcelGreat Dane Developers buys Grand ApartmentsNaples developer buys Hickory nook and marinaSix L's Packing buys Tomato ManPreshers Tool & Fastenergrows, adds warehouseCanadian group plans eastern villageCanadian investors buy Rolling WavesHap's Honda Cycle Sales plans growth, new facilityLakewood Ranch arena closer to foreclosureFlagler buys Bridgeport CenterGrubb & Ellis REIT buys medical plazaGoodman, Forest City buy more Wiregrass landIkea buys land, site work continues

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2012
12 Bold Predictions for 2012

Our writers offer a dozen bold predictions about the Gulf Coast economy for 2012.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2006
Commercial RE Briefs

Equity One acquires Midpoint CenterCPA investment group buys in Woodmere Professional CenterBest Western owners buy nearby restaurantDeveloper buys land for Clark Station second phase Tidemark developer buys Gulf Drive retail buildingSarasota investor buys office near Pineapple SquareGlobal Group Investment buys land for professional centerWeingarten Realty Investors buys Hopewell Industrial CenterThe Sembler Co. preps for St. Pete project

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2008
From the Trenches

There are pundits, ivory tower profs and media purveyors of doom, then there are those entrepreneurs and businessmen in the trenches of everyday business warfare. Here is their boots-on-the-ground outlook.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2007
Commercial RE Briefs

Kosene & Kosene buys portion of Coconut PointDevelopers Diversified Realty takes over Cypress TraceNorth American Properties planning The Forum retail center Bradenton investor/developer buys Palmetto buildingsFirst State Bank buys Venice office Bailes Family buys University ABC liquor storeTrump Group buys Koger office portfolioBresler & Reiner buys Westbury at Lake BrandonFaison planning commercial side of Centex's Magnolia ParkManchester, U.K. investors buy Pinebrooke office buildingTA Associates Realty buys Bermuda Lake ApartmentsSurgery Partners buys Tampa McNichols office building

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2004
Case for Balanced Trade

The full text of this article is available free of charge.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2008
Lee/ Collier 40 under 40

A look at the best of Lee and Collier County's best and brightest under 40.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Cameratta buys Cypress ShadowsNorthern Trust expands in Fort MyersReal estate investors buy Naples marinasArizona company buys mobile home parkInvestment group buys Cattlemen Road buildingSarasota developer plans Fairway Grande HotelSenior Housing Properties buys Harbour Island ClubNew York firm buys apartmentsAshley Furniture plans warehouse expansionSeminole Music owner buys Freddy's Plaza

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2004
Four vying for Judge Rapkin's circuit seat

GCBR looks at the judicial candidates competing for the 12th Circuit Court judicial seat.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2013
Best Bureaucrats?

We recognize the people in government who 'get it.'

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 17, 2006
Corporate Report

General Dynamics awarded $6.1 million contractDNAPrint Genomics test shows Thatcher not all BritishPSCU signs AT&T deal to move Phoenix data centerGerdau Ameristeel revenue jumps, net income for nine months upReptron Electronics still in red, loses $1.4 million Ablest Inc. net income grows 7% in quarter, down year-to-dateTeltronics sales virtually stagnate, net income tanks 85%

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 26, 2004
Downtowns are Back

All along the Gulf Coast downtown cores are resurging. With St. Petersburg and Sarasota leading the booms, residential development is driving the trend.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Technical high school construction completeLandmark Residential buys Colony At El ConquistadorU.S. Postal Servicesbuys land for McIntosh annex Myakka City cattle rancherbuys additional 220 acresCounty micro surfacingeight-neighborhood roadsCharles & Chase Groupstarts Regency House phase twoPunta Gorda Lodging buys Hilton landBrookwood Value Partnersbuys Bella Vida home lotsNaples investor buysJPMorgan Chase building Rollin' Oats owners buy Nature's Harvest storeSchool District of Pasco Countybuys Handcart property Kissimmee area Patel familybuys Tarpon Springs innTower Realty Partners Inc.to lease Tampa office building

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2008
By The Numbers

By The Numbers

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 18, 2004
Bruised, Pruned But Budding Again

A lesson for not-for-profit and corporate boards. What happens when directors are out of sync.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 2, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

John Hicks Co. buys Venetian at Capri IslesPaving company buys Palmetto CoxTarmac buysindustrial landPorterfield family buys Pewett CenterGeorgia developer builds Slater Road CVSPrudential Realty, CLW buy Thompson centerClearwater landlord buys Gateway ApartmentsInland Real Estate buys Citizens Insurance officeGraybar Electric buys existing warehouse building

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 13, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Arthrex buys HellermanTyton buildingLiberty Bank buys land for second Cape Coral branchBilly's Rentals acquires Chitwood warehouse spaceAlbertson's sheds Florida stores in deal with PublixSouth Florida Materials buys 200 acres near portFlorida restaurateur buys 19 acres in North PortWellSpring Pharmaceutical buys University Park unitsChrist Church of Longboat Key buys Longview Realty buildingSoutheast Milk Inc. buys Plant City dairyTampa Electric buys Ruskin land for future substationOM Ventures Inc. buys, revises Magdalene East

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Ringling College buys store, motel, lotSun Hydraulicsbuys Tallevast landRauch companybuys Sara Sea on Siesta KeyDaVinci Center sold, available for leaseUBS' agriculture groupbuys 1,066-acre Alva GroveLee County school boardbuys 79 acres in Cape CoralBayStar Hotel Group buys Heritage HotelTampa's Hachems buyLenox Place, Royal BreezeColumbus Drive LLCbuys Wilson Industries building

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 20, 2006
40 Under 40 Winners Page 1

Christine AlexanderNeil P. ArchibaldJoe ArmeniaCeci Culpepper BermanJoshua BomsteinLuis A. 'Tony' CabassaBryan ChavisMichael CorleyWilliam Dean CrowleyDaniel DeLisi

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