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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 4, 2024
Michael Saunders & Co. joins Forbes Global Properties

The Sarasota-based real estate firm is part of an exclusive group of top-tier agencies.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 31, 2022
Recruitment drive: Tech entrepreneur envisions a better way to hire

Tampa, Florida-based entrepreneur Vaishnavi More created Archslate, a new kind of job-search website for the architecture, engineering and construction industry.

  • Technology
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 17, 2007
LEONARD: Web 2.0 is us

The trick to understanding the phenomena of 'Web 2.0' is realizing how amorphous it is, and taming it.

  • Opinion
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 6, 2021
Elsa wreaks havoc on region's airports, forcing closings and cancellations

Tropical Storm Elsa disrupted air service along the Gulf Coast Tuesday as it approached Florida; could be days before things return to normal

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 5, 2019
Real estate investment trust playing a growth game

HC Government Realty Trust has received a capital injection and new management from a Charlotte, N.C.-based investment company, as part of a strategy to boost the size of its portfolio of properties occupied by federal government agencies.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 22, 2013
Hail This

A retired high-ranking federal government analyst aims to shake up a niche of the transportation industry nationwide — starting in Tampa. Several challenges, from regulatory to technology, stand in his way.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 23, 2009
Government Watch

A look at government events from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 31, 2014
Medical moves

A boom has percolated in medical and health care commercial real estate. Brokers hope it lasts a while.

  • Strategies
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 30, 2025
Manatee County commissioner writes memo proposing hiring freeze

The hiring freeze would apply to all non-essential positions in Manatee County government.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth Stamoulis | Williams Parker Attorneys at Law |
  • September 12, 2025
Using Artificial Intelligence Intelligently

While AI can be a helpful tool, it is important to remember that AI is not infallible. Here are some simple, practical tips to help you use AI tools safely and confidently.

  • Williams Parker
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 3, 2025
Dealmakers, nonprofit leaders and AI aficionados: October on 'From the Corner Office' podcast

Some of the key insights and pieces of wisdom bits from the past month of "From the Corner Office" podcast episodes.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Wasteful government agency shuttered

Agriculture commissioner approves the dissolution of a Lee County agency.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 27, 2014
Price named top woman lawyer

Collier County has a new top woman lawyer.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2014
Hydro-Dyne Engineering buys, relocating to Pinellas Park building

Hydro-Dyne Engineering Inc. purchased a 107,500-square-foot industrial building for $5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2014
Chico's digital theater earns props

Women's retailer named to CIO Magazine's CIO 100.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 31, 2015
Take me to The Hut

During the land boom that started in the 1950s, developers packed real estate investors nationwide into airplanes and bused them from the Fort Myers airport to Lehigh Acres, where they sold them quarter- and half-acre lots.

  • News
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 3, 2015
Reynolds wrap

Revenues are up 50% in four years at Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co., mostly from Florida customers, but the firm has bigger ambitions.

  • Industries
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 27, 2022
Tampa accountant sentenced to federal prison for hiring hitman

DeAnna Marie Stinson turned to the dark web to find a killer and paid in bitcoin.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 31, 2022
Historic St. Petersburg hotel property sells for $29 million

An Atlanta investment firm bought the Marriott hotel in downtown from The Blackstone Group.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2012
When memes attack

Richard Gitlin was photographed for a Business Review article in 2010 and soon became a meme.

  • News
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