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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 11, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

Investors buy Ranch Lake Plaza buildingDeveloper plans center for Suncoast RoofersVictoria Bay buys land for 10-home projectPacer Marine buys land for new manufacturing facilityStephens, Bennett plan multibuilding project

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 21, 2006
Coffee Talk

Naples college gets pumped up with donation: International College, a Naples-based college that focuses on career-oriented studies such as accounting and information technology for working adults, landed a multimillion-dollar gift from Lavern Norris Gaynor, an heiress to the Texaco oil fortune.Development lending up: The folks who pay off depositors at failed banks have issued their latest quarterly overview of the Florida economy, just in time for the Review's special banking issue.A good audit: During this time of year, the word audit is normally not a good thing. But for Sarasota County, a recent audit turned out OK. Bancshares of Florida reveals growth strategy: Naples-based Bancshares of Florida officials are mum about their planned secondary offering of stock, but its recent filing provides some revealing clues about the future of the company headed by CEO and President Michael L. McMullan HMA to bond market: You're OK: The corporate-bond market doesn't look so bad after all.Firm looks for strong premier: Premier Properties, the luxury real estate arm for Naples-based Lutgert Cos., confirmed April 12 what Coffee Talk reported on April 7: The company has hired away a top executive from Michael Saunders & Co. to lead its first expansion north to Sarasota.Company denies getting VC, yet: Coffee Talk thought we'd heard good news about Gemesis Corp., a Sarasota maker of synthetic diamonds, in the aftermath of a boffo presentatio

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 20, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana)

Developers hope to grow new retail: The Isaac brothers and John Simon sure know how to make news.Name game: With a wave of new community banks washing ashore in Florida, Kendrick Pierce & Co. Inc. is keeping busy.Positive news, for a change: At last, Florida's largest law firm, Holland & Knight LLP, has some positive news.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2008
Gulf Coast Week

New high-tech firmCambridge, Mass.-based Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. will be establishing a BioMEMS R&D Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a Multi Chip Module Center in St. Petersburg.Smith files bankruptcySmith Family Homes, an upscale homebuilder along the Gulf Coast, has filed Chapter 7 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Under Chapter 7, a court-appointed official liquidates the company's assets to pay creditors.udge upholds gun lawA Federal judge in Florida upheld a law allowing employees to keep concealed weapons inside their locked vehicles in their employer-owned parking lot.More arena delaysThe foreclosure of a unfinished hockey arena in Lakewood Ranch has been delayed again. German company relocatesOrbeco-Hellige Inc., a Long Island, N.Y.-based manufacturing company that specializes in building instruments for testing water and wastewater treatments, has moved its business to Manatee County. Enterprise opens Aug. 1Fort Myers city officials plan to dedicate the new Southwest Florida Enterprise Center on Aug. 1.News-Press layoffsThe Fort Myers News-Press, a daily newspaper owned by Gannett, told its readers recently it plans to lay off 36 employees and will not fill another 10 job openings.

  • Finance
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 2, 2021
Brewery quenches thirst for growth, buys spot for new taproom

Up next in the multimillion-dollar expansion plan at Calusa Brewing ? A likely doubling of both the payroll and production barrels.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 26, 2020
On Fire

Gulf Coast hospitality development and investment sales have been rampant — but the upswing is far from over, a leading industry expert says.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • May 3, 2019
Call center company commits to growth with new building plan

Wisconsin-based Alta Resources has morphed into a Southwest Florida hiring machine behind explosive growth in clients. Training to mirror Fortune 500 clients it serves is paramount.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 4, 2024
304-acre east Manatee County ranch listed for $8M, marketed to developers

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a nearly 50-year-old Brandon bowling alley sold, a project gets nearly $10 million loan in Fort Myers, and Manatee is nearly ready to tackle impact fees.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 5, 2023
Looking to shed stores nationwide, Walgreens sells Fort Myers location

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Manatee buys an office building, Tampa Bay condo towers surpass $200 million in sales, and a Naples medical building is getting new tenants.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 12, 2023
Jenny Lenz, 33

A New York City investment banker follows her prominent mentor and mom into luxury global real estate, based in Naples.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 1, 2025
Pinellas retail property sells to investor for nearly $7 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota property with a little extra is up for sale, a burrito restaurant chain grows in Tampa Bay, and a new shopping center finishes in Cape Coral.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • July 5, 2023
Foundation with $551.68 million in assets adds two board members

The late Baranciks' son is one of the new board members.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 21, 2022
Captions company lays off nearly 350 in state, more than 100 in Tampa

CapTel Service Specialists say the job cuts are due to a new technology.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2022
Bicoastal law firm expands to downtown Sarasota

The office is the firm's fourth with other locations in Miami, Orlando and Portland, Oregon.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 28, 2022
Insider's look at where $3B in state transportation projects is going

Nearly 30 construction projects in the region, worth $3 billion, are underway, an analysis of Florida transportation data shows.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 7, 2010
Economic Snapshot: Jobs for Season

Every area of the Gulf Coast showed month-over-month declines in the unemployment rate in October, though each area's unemployment rate was higher than the state (11.2%).

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 17, 2009
Hunter Warfield buys new HQ building

Tampa-based collections and asset investigation firm Hunter Warfield purchased a former State Farm Insurance building in Woodland Corporate Center just of Water Avenue for $2.3 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2010
Feds back Red Sox bonds

Lee County taxpayers won't be the only ones backing a spring-training stadium for the Boston Red Sox. Turns out, the nation's taxpayers are on the hook, too.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 18, 2011
Fly to Scandinavia from Fort Myers

Southwest Florida International Airport will become the only Florida airport to offer nonstop air service to Denmark.

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 4, 2011
TGM Associates buys Malibu Lakes

New York City-based TGM Associates purchased the 356-unit Malibu Lakes apartments for $42.6 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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