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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Kevin Greenwell, 37

Agency principal, East & Greenwell Insurance

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 18, 2011
What's Your Score?

People crave an edge in the vast and vastly competitive world of online profiles. A new website aims to deliver just that.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 1, 2016
#SWFL #Homebuyers

Builders are using social media and a more conversational approach to attract millennial homebuyers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2010
GreenPointe Communities buys Triple Creek land

In its second major purchase in the Riverview area in the past month, Jacksonville-based developer GreenPointe Communities bought 1,038-acres for $14.75 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2011
Illinois developer buys 432 acres on S.R. 54

Naperville, Ill.-based Crown Community Development Inc. purchased the mortgage notes covering 432 acres of land on State Road 54 and the realigned Curley Road.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2012
AutoPride Collision owner buys Sherwin-Williams facility

The facility sold for $1 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 9, 2012
Morton Plant Mease Health Care buys Trinity land for future

Morton Plant Mease Health Care purchased four acres of raw land near Trinity Boulevard for $1.4 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2018
Custom homebuilder adds new purchasing manager

Mike Swanson brings 20 years of experience to his new role.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2016
Miami company buys $8M Manatee County firm

Manatee County-based Laundry Plus was founded in 1989.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 20, 2016
POWER BROKERS: Colliers International Tampa Bay

Colliers International's regional operation had six Power Brokers in all for 2015, in addition to being listed among the region's top sales and leasing operations.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2016
Luxury homebuilder buys prime parcel for $34M

London Bay Homes acquired 55 acres on Golden Gate Parkway for $34 million, one of the last parcels of land in the heart of Naples.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2014
Local billionaires represent

Not all Florida billionaires live in West Palm or Miami.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 13, 2025
$2.6B global tech firm buys Fort Myers company

Fiber Solutions has a second office in Tennessee.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 12, 2021
A leap of faith (and some long days) were all one entrepreneur needed to find success

With a coaching and marketing company named Be Your Best You, businesswoman follows her own advice — with some early success.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 15, 2016
Break through

The founders of Crown Roofing started a business with $75,000. Three years later $50 million in revenues is in its sights.

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  • By Kat Wingert |
  • March 18, 2018
Welcome to the new Business Observer website

Our new website has been updated to give readers a better experience and more mobile features.

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  • April 2, 2010
New Jersey investor group buys six Grand Oak Preserve condos

J-6 Properties LLC, a four-person partnership of investors from New Jersey, Philadelphia and Fort Myers, purchased six condo units in the Grande Oaks Preserve at the southwest corner of Honore Avenue and Desoto Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • June 27, 2014
Kentucky's Glenwood Properties buys Tuffy Auto Center and Dairy Queen

An affiliate of Bowling Green, Ky.-based Glenwood Properties purchased a Tuffy Auto Center and Dairy Queen for $2.35 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 28, 2024
Fort Myers school spends $29 million on office buildings

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a major hotel project is OK’d in St. Pete Beach, more land is conserved in Sarasota, and Margaritaville comes to Naples.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 19, 2014
Sarasota and Manatee float combined bus service

New website from two chambers of commerce promotes plan.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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