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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • May 18, 2022
Biggest economic crisis in Florida history looms

Florida’s $3.6 trillion property insurance market is in collapse. Whether Florida’s economy will be rescued will be a political duel: Gov. Ron DeSantis vs. Speaker Chris Sprowls and the state’s plaintiff attorneys.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • November 26, 2010
Back on Camera

Eric Seidel spent nearly 20 years as a consumer lawyer for a Tampa TV station. Now he is taking his talents to the Internet and wants to bring small businesses along.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Jill Athridge, 39

CEO and owner, Stage Door Studios

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Joseph Serrano, 39

Co-founder/president, CX Insurance Services

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Bobby Harris, 39

CEO, Blue Grace Logistics

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
David Connolly, 31

President, Mister Sparky Florida

  • Class of 2015
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Patrick Duggan, 37

Senior assistant general counsel, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Erika Nikla Quartermaine, 37

Judge, Sarasota County

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 2, 2015
Intellectual Capital

Charles Grimes, a leading intellectual property attorney, relocated his firm's corporate headquarters to Bonita Springs from Connecticut. More are coming, he says.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2003
Calendar

HILLSBOROUGH, PINELLAS AND PASCO COUNTIES

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2010
Hotels scores rosy in romantic rankings

Hopeless romantics on the Gulf Coast now have hope: Two local properties — the Bungalow Beach Resort on Bradenton Beach and the Sara Sea Resort on Siesta Key — were ranked in the top 10 in a nationwide survey of the country's most romantic hotels.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 19, 2013
It's lonely at the top

The isolation of a CEO is crystallized in a new Stanford University survey.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2019
Fast-growing tech firm plans 100 hires in region

Drift, a Boston-based conversational marketing firm that serves some 50,000 businesses, has opened an office in Tampa, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 31, 2020
Climate change: Florida climbs out of judicial hellhole

Florida makes great strides in improving its legal climate.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2019
Law firm hires top-level fiduciary services executives

Williams Parker filling what it has seen as a gap in the marketplace. That includes working with clients serving as a fiduciary who may need assistance. It also includes the firm’s partners who have been asked to serve as fiduciary on behalf of clients wh

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 19, 2019
Area boat retailer makes splashy acquisition in Texas

MarineMax, a Clearwater, Florida-based recreational boat and yacht retailer, has purchased Sail & Ski Center, a Texas boat dealership founded in 1969 that operates in Austin and San Antonio.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 11, 2022
Marco Island sale for $10.75M sets parcel record

The lot overlooks Caxambas Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 11, 2016
Colony dispute near an end?

The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, a Longboat Key icon and once one of the top tennis vacation destinations nationwide, has been closed since 2010 — the chief casualty in a bitter and lengthy dispute over maintenance costs.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 9, 2025
$247M Fort Myers contractor moves Sarasota-area office

B&I Contractors has relocated its Sarasota-Manatee operations to a larger, more visible facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • September 5, 2024
Report: FL industries where women make more than men have some surprises

Car dealerships and crop production are among the spots where women outdo men in salaries.

  • Florida
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