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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2003
Woo Customers, Increase Business

Lou Lasday, an independent marketing adviser who resides on Longboat Key, creates action-oriented Strategic Corporate Initiatives for emerging companies.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 17, 2003
Lou Lasday: The Importance of Cross Selling

Lou Lasday is an independent marketing adviser who resides on Longboat Key. He creates strategic corporate initiatives for emerging companies. A career direct response executive, he has been a senior partner of a national advertising agency and served as

  • Opinion
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  • By Lou Lasday |
  • April 23, 2010
Dynamic 'REM' Databasing

It will tell you when a client is due, when he is overdue, or when he is done.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • February 14, 2020
How to buy out a business partner

One key is to take emotion out of the process.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 15, 2009
Flight time

By holding down costs and offering competitive rates, Steven Santo has grown Avantair into a growing company in the private jet business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • July 7, 2017
Will to survive

Floridians are used to preparing for hurricanes and tropical storms. But a Sarasota business owner has taken preparation to otherworldly proportions. Think zombies.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 7, 2024
Top 10 Business Observer stories of the first half of 2024

While some news is of closings and layoffs, people and companies in the region are also busy buying land, expanding and taking risks.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 11, 2022
Tampa apartment complex refinanced for nearly $80 million

The owners of the Hamilton Point on Egypt Lake apartments have refinanced about a year after buying the property and renovating it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 7, 2011
Gamla-Cedron Group buys Preserve at Temple Terrace units

Gamla-Cedron Group, an Israeli-based real estate investment firm, continued a condo buying binge with its fifth recent distressed bulk multifamily deal in the Tampa area.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 29, 2011
Grubb & Ellis REIT buys Lakewood Ranch medical office building for $12.5 million

Some of Bradenton's most prominent power players have sold Lakewood Ranch Medical Office Building I to national real estate investment trust Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II for $12.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 27, 2021
Midwestern firms make Naples deals

Combined $31 million in investments buys flex buildings, business center office in Naples for $31.05 million

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 13, 2019
Boston company invests big in condo project

Boston-based West Shore LLC has invested nearly $122 million to buy a majority of the condo units in the Grande Oasis at Carrollwood project north of Tampa

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 20, 2019
Dallas apartment firm buys coveted Largo tract

Lantower Residential has purchased a Largo tract on busy U.S. 19 where it likely will develop new apartments, a departure from the acquisitions it is best known for,

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 17, 2020
Homebuilder's sales back to pre-coronavirus levels

Neal Communities also marked five community sales closeouts during the month at Tides End, The Ridge at Crossing Creek, Coconut Cove, Watermark and Cypress Walk.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 26, 2019
Blackstone fund buys St. Petersburg apartments

Blackstone Group continues to buy Gulf Coast apartment projects, even as it prepares to shift its corporate structure to a corporation this summer.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 21, 2019
Nuveen buys Brandon apartments for $77.5 million

Nuveen Real Estate Management, the investment arm of Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association, has invested $77.5 million to buy the Azola Apartments in Brandon, its third in a strong of recent multifamily rental properties in and around Tampa.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 16, 2018
Marlissa Gardner, Founder/Owner, Emillions

Founder/Owner Emillions, Naples

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • August 21, 2015
How to ... Keep employees (and morale) during rough patches

People remember how they are treated in both the good and the bad times, according to Ryan Toth, Beck Construction's regional director of Florida. The 67-employee company has been through both.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 22, 2024
A graphic breakdown of housing affordability in Florida

Data from the Florida Housing Summit held earlier in May puts a spotlight on the state's lack of housing available in a variety of price points.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 1, 2023
Tampa Bay credit union expands again, buying a 900-client insurance firm

Achieva Credit Union continues offering more financial services for clients and customers.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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