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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • December 28, 2018
Comfort food chain Metro Diner meets challenges with continued growth

In 2018, Metro Diner closed two diners and opened 26, for a net total of 24 new locations.

  • Strategies
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • July 8, 2024
Sarasota Yacht Club presents expansion plans to the city

A three-story, free-standing structure is proposed to meet growing membership demands.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 1, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Tampa)

Miami investment group buys 362 rental apartments

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2020
Anti-fraud tech firm expands in area, expects to create 20 high-wage jobs

Jacksonville-based Sound Payments, a tech firm that fights fraud at gas pumps and other points of sale, has opened an office in St. Petersburg, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2019
Area community, Harvard teaching hospital join forces on brain study

One of the largest master-planned communities in the region, Lakewood Ranch, recently announced a partnership with several prominent medical entities, including a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, on a pioneering brain study.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 14, 2005
New Starts

Anand Pallegaris business life hit a brick wall in 2003. Now he has big plans for the new year.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Bradenton hospitals plan major additions, renovationsPoint Development Co.buys Cracker Barrel landLand Associates buys 95 acres in Myakka CityPerry Concrete movesto Rich Street in Venice

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 15, 2022
Tampa boosts efforts to shut down illegal construction

The city has created a team to focus on stopping illegal construction sites and unlicensed contractors.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2007
Coffee Talk

Do I hear more auctions? Going once...: Realtors at Sarasota-based SKY Sotheby's involved in a traditional tent-held auction of 20 multimillion-dollar homes May 18 considered the event a massive success.Still waiting on SevenShores: When the Review profiled the SevenShores condo and mixed-use development project June 9, it was a story about persistence and perseverance.Ave Maria University sells old campus: Ave Maria University will sell its campus near Vanderbilt Beach Road and Interstate 75 to a group of undisclosed Tampa investors who will redevelop it as a retirement community, says Nicholas Healy Jr., the university's president.Tampa firm finds interest in its latest discovery: Diving crews working for Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration found much more than $500 million in water-buried treasure earlier this month in the Atlantic Ocean.Medical firm seeks to alleviate debt with IPO: Executives at Clearwater-based medical supply firm CCS Medical Holdings are seeking to cash in on the firm's recent revenue growth spurt by announcing plans to go public.Motivate from within: Everyone needs a little motivation now and then, even the best of the best employees.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 23, 2006
Forced to Reinvent

With the advent of digital photos, Photo-Tech Inc.'s Peter Turo saw his corporate photography business becoming a commodity. He had to change or die.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 15, 2016
Port Manatee Commerce Owner Selling

The owner of the six-building Port Manatee Commerce Center in Manatee County is working to sell the 310,000- square-foot industrial complex, a deal that could fetch in excess of $25 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 5, 2023
Another California company moving to Tampa Bay

Lynx Automation, which provides software for property owners and hotel operators, plans to hire 50 people in Tampa Bay.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 5, 2024
Breeze Airways makes Fort Myers airport a base of operations

Southwest Florida International Airport is one of nine hubs nationwide for Breeze Airways.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 4, 2018
London Bay Homes buys Bonita Springs site for $12.75 million

Naples homebuilder takes control of 30-acre, waterfront tract

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 11, 2018
Hyatt Regency Coconut Point described as "irreplaceable asset"

Hyatt Coconut Point $220 million sale in Bonnita Springs sets new record with Host Hotels & Resorts purchase from Hyatt Hotels Corp.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 21, 2015
Lakeland Regional Health Systems buys land for south campus

Lakeland Regional Health purchased 100 acres of land in northern Bartow for $7.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2011
Lee County buys land near Twins' stadium

Lee County purchased 14.29 acres south of the Lee County Sports Complex/Hammond Stadium for $4.81 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • August 20, 2010
Driving the Bus

Valerie Harwell, a former insurance manager, has taken on new duties as president and CEO of The Omnia Group. It's a company she has been familiar with from the start.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 30, 2024
Prominent Tampa restaurant family honored by vision nonprofit

Longtime restaurateur Richard Gonzmart and daughter Andrea Gonzmart Williams will be honored as "people of vision."

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 31, 2025
Foot Locker makes it official, signs lease for new HQ in prominent St. Pete office park

The global retailer has agreed to a lease for space in the city's Carillon Business Park.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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