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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2013
Baseball teams ride musical chairs

Spring training in Florida could have a different look in the next few years — and the Gulf Coast could end up with two new teams.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2016
New industrial planned for Lee

As the Lee County industrial vacancy rate shrank to 6.5% in the first quarter of this year, brokers and users alike have lamented that new product hasn't come online.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2015
Tampa General, Florida Hospital partner on new Brandon Healthplex

Tampa General Hospital purchased 17.4 acres near the northwest corner of Interstate 75 and the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway for $5.8 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 26, 2023
Pasco mall adds five tenants, including French and German retailers

The 441,000-square-foot Tampa Premium Outlets is expanding, adding four merchants and a new restaurant.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 16, 2023
Sarasota-based food bank names new senior level executive

The new five-year strategic plan All Faiths has in place made way for the new role.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 3, 2024
Food service vendor loses contract at SRQ airport, cuts nearly 100 jobs

New concessions and shops, with several local brands among them, are coming soon to the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • December 17, 2009
Jobs Killer

A smothering 1,100% state unemployment compensation hike taking effect Jan. 1 couldn't come at a worse time, and may ignite a 'death spiral' of greater unemployment and even higher state unemployment compensation taxes.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 17, 2006
Coffee Talk

Icahn buys 4% of WCI, credit downgradedSource Interlink chief resignsNaples-based TIB Financial Corp., the parent of TIB Bank, acquired The Bank of Venice for about $16 million. That's about 1.9 times book value.Private companies in need of capital might find what they're looking for at the Florida Venture Forum's 16th annual conference Feb. 6-7 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton.Goldman Sachs investment banking division co-chief Scott Kapnick and his family recently gave $10 million to the Naples Botanical Garden for the development of 160 acres that will include cultivated gardens at Bayshore and Thomasson drives.Naples-based International College named its business school for Kenneth Oscar Johnson, a former ExxonMobil executive and CEO of Florida-based Belcher Oil.eal Estate executives from across the country converge on the Gulf Coast to talk strategy.

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  • July 28, 2006
Corporate Report

View business briefs covering the Gulf Coast for free.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 10, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: June 10

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • September 30, 2021
Change is afoot: how to improve while minimizing disruptions

Six steps to moving a company forward while generating sometimes elusive buy-in.

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  • By Denise Federer |
  • October 23, 2020
11 ways to find balance in an unbalanced world

How to use performance management skills to cope with COVID-19.

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  • By Kevin Jursinski |
  • February 5, 2016
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Ian Black

Ian Black Real Estate has been busy of late, and not just with the transactions the Sarasota-based commercial real estate brokerage and management firm has been closing in the region's heated market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 26, 2026
Barancik Foundation grants $11M to housing, arts, education, hunger groups

Two of the grants from the Sarasota-based foundation were for more than $1 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 14, 2008
Out of the public eye

Stefan Bothe discovered running a public company wasn't worth the time and expense, so he decided tode-register the stock of his accounting-software development company. It turned out to be a great move.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2022
Affordable housing, transportation top 2022 agendas for chambers

Chambers see chance to tackle ‘bucket’ priorities with federal money.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 30, 2021
(Former) New York entrepreneur embraces Florida's freedoms

Buddy Foy says year one of being a Sunshine State resident has gone rather well.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 29, 2024
Barnes & Noble shutters nearly 30-year-old Carrollwood store in Tampa

The bookstore chain closed its store on North Dale Mabry and will move to a new space in a former Bed Bath & Beyond just north of it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 6, 2024
Tampa apartment owner gets $45.5 million loan

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a sporting goods store opens in Fort Myers, BayCare buys a former Barnes & Noble in Tampa, and a retailer is about to open a new store in Venice.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 14, 2025
Luxury tower tops half-billion dollars in sales

In the week's top commercial real estate news, owners invest $2 million Sarasota County gym, a Dallas investor buys St. Pete properties, and a mover moves into new space in Manatee.

  • Florida
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