JBM Realty Advisors goes California dreamin' : Another Tampa company, JBM Realty Advisors, one of the nation's premier institutional multifamily brokerage firms, recently connected with a large out-of-state business, Sperry Van Ness.Sarasota Chamber looks to tomorrow with optimism: Sarasota Tomorrow, the capital campaign designed to prove businesses aren't just a necessary evil, kicked of its donation season with a big announcement: It has already raised $1.22 million - 60% of its $2 million goal.Condo project goes retro, sells most units: The following sentence wasn't lifted out of a 2005 Coffee Talk item: A Sarasota condo developer has been selling units at about the rate of one a week for three months, with the majority going to the contract stage Sarasota money manager dies from stroke: Gary Wood, founder of a Sarasota-based money management firm bearing his name, died Nov. 29, a few weeks after suffering a stroke. He was 68.HMA highlights chairman's stock sales: It's usually a routine affair when top executives sell stock of the company they manage.Foreign tourism slips, security issues blamed: Security concerns are making it more difficult for the Tampa Bay area to attract foreign visitors, a key component of the area's important tourism industry.Commercial brokers seek access to TICs: If the National Association of Realtors has its way with federal regulators, some commercial real estate brokers will have another way of m
