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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 17, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: Sept. 17 - Sept. 23

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2023
Well-known wine festival draws in nearly $26 million

The Naples Winter Wine Festival set a record in its 23rd year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 19, 2010
Lincare earns $45.5M in profits

The company's performance represents a 26% increase in net income.

  • News
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 30, 2019
Chasing the Northern Lights

Naples-based Ronto Group is expanding its footprint and moving up the Gulf Coast to Sarasota and now to Tampa with a new residential high-rise, the 22-story Altura Bayshore.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 10, 2011
Inuvo, HMA offer preview

Two Gulf Coast firms provide earnings guidance for the end of 2010.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 19, 2007
Corporate Report

Mattison's scores Catersource coverFlorida Bank Group buying The Bank of Tallahassee MedClose VCS reports continuing clinical success Retailer Chico's buying Minnesota franchiseeMurphy Business & Financial names top brokers for 2006Tampa training company enters copyright disputeBlue Cross, HCA agree Pilgrim sells to Nihon KohdenUltroid's 'painless treatment'squaremouth Inc. offers health Forbes lingers hereProgress Energy raises moneyRegions exec named FNB veep

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 24, 2022
City tearing down former grocery store to make way for senior center

Tampa has begun demolition of the Penny Saver Food Market as part of a plan to redevelop a nearby park.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 22, 2010
Another tin-ear Sarasota decision?

The city of Sarasota's reputation in some circles as being hostile to business interests has been earned through years of frustrating, head-scratching decisions.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2012
Big bank shifts its downtown presence

The Bank of America name perched on a downtown Sarasota building will be coming down — likely by early next year.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 29, 2019
Aventura firm buys Edison Mall land from mall owner

Washington Prime Group, the owner of the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, has sold the land around and underneath the 1.04 million-square-foot retail center.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 15, 2019
Bend it like Echelman

The design for the aerial art installation planned for the St. Petersburg Pier District — a piece that will be created by world-renowned artist Janet Echelman, who lives in Boston but grew up in Tampa, Florida — was officially unveiled in late January at

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2019
Construction equipment firm takes in nearly $300M in auction

Records were in abundance at a recent Ritchie Bros. auction in Polk County, where construction and agriculture equipment changed hands rapidly.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2022
Luxury SWFL condo tower logs $10M in sales in 10 days

Grandview at Bay Beach on Estero Island, say the developers, "fills a void in the area for new luxury condominiums in the tower market."

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 2, 2016
Downtown revival

A second wave of development is coming to downtown Fort Myers in 2016. A convention center hotel will be key.

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  • September 18, 2015
Sarasota's incredible shrinking space

Buried deep in a new Sarasota County Business Competitiveness survey that asked 74 local companies to rate the health of the region's business climate and macro conditions was a troubling finding: Space is at a premium.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 8, 2024
Loss of Walmart wireless services contract leads to 302 layoffs

Walmart did not renew the contract for a Miami company that handles wireless sales at stores across Florida.

  • Florida
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 2, 2024
48 jobs cut at Lakeland Winn-Dixie before store rebrands as Aldi

The grocery store in Polk County will be converted into an Aldi following an acquisition.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 6, 2025
Lee County pays $10.5 million to conserve 132 acres

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Fort Myers land sold to medical provider, Brandon gets Scandinavia furniture retailer's first Florida store, and a much-anticipated Sarasota project officially starts.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2011
Former Trump Tower site sold

Brownstone Tampa Partners acquired the site in a $5 million deal.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 20, 2025
Buyers plan to turn Hillsborough, Pasco sites into storage facilities

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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