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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 8, 2021
OPINION: Ivermectin II: Cons and pros

Readers chastised us, saying we were promoting a COVID-19 drug that’s dangerous and unproven. Dr. Pierre Kory addresses those concerns.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 26, 2025
5 years later, Gulf Coast executives look back at managing through COVID

On the anniversary of the COVID, several business leaders from a wide swath of fields discuss the decisions they made, their worries and their early response to the pandemic in 2020.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 24, 2024
AeroVanti founder's brother says life, finances in tatters from company collapse

After futile efforts to help his brother's floundering private air service company, debts and pressure mount for Todd Britton-Harr.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Enterprise Associates brings Marquee to BradentonMurdock Village proposals near important deadlineWarm Mineral Springs developer adds town center conceptEncore Bank buys offices to remodel and leaseDevelopers buy land for Partners CoveFort Myers' Dupree family acquires two office buildingsRyan Cos. US buys 380 acres for corporate parkKenyon & Partners moving to Sabal Industrial ParkBarfield Bay buys Brookside

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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

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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

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  • May 28, 2004
Forrest Gump Rodriguez?

Naivete, hard work, salesmanship and meetings are the keystones for Henry Rodriguez's commercial development style.

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  • 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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  • May 21, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Sturdivent Foods buys three buildingsMetro Parkway Realty buys Metro strip centerMiami builders plan Marco Island officeBrooks & Freund begins PaseoFinergy closes on Nokomis hotel siteSarasota Ophthalmology moves to Tamiami TrailRingling buys nine homes, one commercial buildingKeller Williams buys Channelside building for new officeAdvanced Developmentbuys Dixon Legal for condosGulfshore Bank headquarters planned

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 12, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana)

Zirkelbach Construction Plans $100 Million Buckeye ParkTri-H Metal Products buys building on 21st StreetBennett, Kaplan complete Linger Lodge purchaseCarla's Clay owner buys Northgate unitde Morgan Homes buys Palmetto landDeveloper buys out east for new home communityRosedale developer buys land to expandNew Jersey firm acquires 29 retail sites in FloridaFort Myers psychologist buys Bradenton officeTitle company to relocate to Lakewood Main Street

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 11, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Key Club unveils $500 million projectStarr joins Siesta Plaza, plans redevelopmentKent Technologies Lighting and Signaling closes on storage siteLee County buys Fiddlestick propertyNortheastern investment group buys land for Pollo TropicaSanta Ana investors buy Colonial Bank buildingHeritage Golf Group buys TPC Tampa BayLindell Properties kicks off Wilderness CommonsChuck's Natural Food owner buys Brandon center

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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

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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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  • February 28, 2013
Best Bureaucrats?

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

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  • 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 |
  • 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

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