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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2010
Lee sells bonds to keep Sox

Red Sox' threat to flee winter home prompts Lee County bond sale.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 21, 2013
In Minto condition

Canadian developer and homebuilder Minto Group is making an aggressive push on the Gulf Coast. Michael Belmont leads the charge.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 4, 2021
Climate First Bank, new branch

Eco-friendly project pushes solar power technology to the limit.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • November 11, 2021
Main Squeeze: Sarasota hotspot to become home to gourmet lemonade franchise

Area couple goes all-in on a new-to-Florida lemonade-based franchise concept. Even before the first location opens, growth plans are flowing.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 5, 2021
Advice: executives need to exude empathy in new workplace.

Adjusting to the new state of work requires executives to be empathic and also emphatic with employees: Yes, things are changing but change can be good — for both sides.

  • Advice
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • February 6, 2026
Melting Pot celebrates milestone with brand makeover, merchandising

Tampa-based fondue chain Melting Pot is balancing a tight line: It aims to grow a new customer base while keeping the company’s more traditional diners satisfied.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • January 23, 2015
Incentives: dissected

The Business Observer breaks down incentive strategies used by counties on the Gulf Coast outside of Sarasota.

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 7, 2018
Poof! A new invention by a serial product designer

Therapouf inventor Judy Cutler-Teeven

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • May 15, 2023
Sarasota County reinstates full EDC funding — for now

With new leadership and a new board, county commissioners decided to give the EDC one year to prove itself.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 6, 2023
New year, same Rays: Tampa baseball team's search for a new home continues

The team's president says the focus is keeping the Rays in Tampa Bay.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 21, 2010
The Write Stuff

The art of getting stories printed in newspapers and magazines has long confounded many small business owners and entrepreneurs. Ron Smith is trying to turn it into a science.

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  • April 19, 2013
Corporate Report: April 19

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 16, 2016
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE | Carl Roeder

Carl Roeder has been involved in commercial real estate lending for more than three decades, and today is head of BB&T's Commercial Real Estate Lending Group for West and Southwest Florida, an area that covers from Tampa to Naples.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 18, 2015
Corporate report

Walter Investment Management settles false-claims lawsuit; Gunster law firm names shareholder, adds H.R. consulting group; Oxis International subsidiary licenses new cancer treatment; Academy of Soccer opens new Brandon school; HemCare Health Services buying majority of Tampa medical practice; HealthCare Partners hires new Florida CFO

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 30, 2025
Sale of the Tampa Bay Rays is complete, new owners take over

The sale of the team to a group led by Jacksonville businessman Patrick Zalupski closed Tuesday.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • December 16, 2021
National pet store sued following local dog’s death

What started as a routine grooming visit turned into a deadly nightmare for one south Sarasota County family.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 6, 2017
Saturation point?

New Sarasota hotels leave some questioning how much is too much.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 1, 2011
Shaped by Recession

Brian Lucas is one of several next-generation executives who will lead their family businesses out of the recession.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 31, 2018
Two tech-infused real estate firms capitalize on lucrative industry shift

Software and technology advancements present opportunities for nimble companies to handle multiple parts of a transaction — not one person for title, one for mortgage, etc. as is usual.

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  • September 15, 2006
Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk: Southwest may add Fort Myers flightsThe real estate market may be in the dumps, but at least one segment of the advertising industry that caters to it - billboards - is booming. Sarasota employers are not an optimistic bunch, according to Manpower Inc.'s most recent employment outlook survey.Coral Gables-based Cornerstone Group is touting its new all-concrete town home community as the cure to homeowners' insurance woes.If the residential real estate market is in a slump, you wouldn't know it based on investors' appetites.Morgan Stanley executives say they've raised $1.75 billion for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V U.S., the institutional fund that recently bought Babcock Ranch in partnership with West Palm Beach developer Syd Kitson. Tampa-based Suncoast Roofers Supply (profiled in the May 12 Review) has opened its 15th location, this one in Gainesville, home of the University of Florida Gators.When the public sector borrows from the business world, it tends to raise eyebrows and lower costs. In Sarasota County, that lesson is coming home in the Office of Financial Planning.Pulte Homes and its DiVosta subsidiary are two of the best homebuilders on the Gulf Coast for customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Power and Associates. Yet another Palm Avenue development RFPThere's an anti-development fight in St. Pete Beach, a south Pinellas County coastal community of 10,000, and Wa

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