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  • November 14, 2011
Outback sponsors NASCAR team

The Tampa restaurant firm will advertise during the Sprint Cup Series.

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  • May 4, 2011
Fifth Third Tampa Bay CEO out

Brian Keenan resigned from his position as affiliate president and CEO.

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  • July 12, 2011
Sebring buys Scalix for $12M

The Sarasota-based firm acquired an email and calendar software platform.

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  • August 15, 2012
Tax preparer faces prison

Federal judge sentences tax preparer to two years for filing false returns.

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  • April 23, 2012
Finemark expands to Arizona

The Fort Myers-based bank opened an office in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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  • April 10, 2015
Five Benjamins for everyone

Like hotels, hospitals on the Gulf Coast have been packed with patients this busy winter season.

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  • October 8, 2012
Tampa Tribune sold for $9.5M

A private equity investment group bought the newspaper from Media General.

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  • September 17, 2020
Lakeland industrial project continues development wave

Xebec Realty’s speculative industrial project planned for Lakeland is the latest Interstate 4 Corridor offering aimed at capturing demand for distribution and fulfillment sites.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • May 24, 2019
Cortland refinances Tampa projects with $106 million loan

Cortland Partners refinances Tampa-area apartment projects and reconfigures ownership

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  • March 30, 2018
Tervis launches two new products

Venice-based Tervis introduced a beer mug and a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School water bottle.

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  • August 7, 2025
St. Petersburg bank lays off employees as it cuts loan program

BayFirst Bank's decision to eliminate small balance loans through the SBA led to job reductions.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • July 1, 2005
Out on a Limb

Marketing institutional-grade properties to high net-worth investors is tricky business. The Tampa office of CB Richard Ellis has found a way to do it.

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  • February 5, 2026
Real cost of public notice

State lawmakers keep saying public notices are a cost issue that needs fixing. They’re missing the point.

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  • August 8, 2014
Flipped Model

Raising capital for a commercial real estate project is a universal obstacle. An energetic young entrepreneur thinks he has a solution.

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  • March 15, 2024
Fort Myers office park sells for record-'shattering' $92.5 million

LQ Commercial sold the 41-acre industrial property to a Pennsylvania REIT for what it says is a record amount.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 28, 2024
Ex-official with Bradenton shark research nonprofit arrested in $300K theft

Christine Bedore, a former treasurer with the American Elasmobranch Society, has been arrested for allegedly stealing at least $300,000 from the Bradenton nonprofit.

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  • October 12, 2018
Super security: Firm wants to change the login game

Super Auth, a Tampa, Florida-based tech startup, has created a password-less authentication system that uses a person’s fingerprint or facial features, inputted via his or her smartphone, to transmit login credentials to apps and websites.

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  • June 5, 2014
Chico's digital theater earns props

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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