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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 7, 2022
Survey says: Affordable housing is the top concern for businesses

With housing prices exploding, businesses are having a harder time getting workers to come — and stay.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 14, 2023
258 jobs cut regionally, 161 at single Tampa Bay company

Three companies notified the state Monday that they were eliminating jobs in Tampa, Fort Myers and Oldsmar.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 28, 2026
Largo seeks developer to build residential, retail, office spaces at city center

As a new City Hall complex nears completion, the Pinellas County city is seeking developers to remake its current 14-acre government campus, including an option allowing police and emergency operations to remain.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 25, 2026
Bankrupt brewer Big Storm sells Clearwater property

The 3.58-acre, two-building property sold for $5.5 million after a bankruptcy judge approved the sale last month.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2021
Bradenton law firm stays small, but mighty

After 20 years, a Bradenton law firm has been able to keep its goal of staying small. Never growing over six attorneys at a time, Harllee & Bald found a way to maintain a good chemistry in the office and be selective in clients all while continuing to gro

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 25, 2007
Market Trappings

A risk-taking, adventure-starved Realtor finds out a slumping market isn't all bad: It has given him time to chase, and catch, alligators.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 9, 2009
Mission: Difficult

The job market might be in tatters, but a pair of military veterans sees promise in running a business devoted to finding work for other veterans.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 2, 2012
Freeze Frame

Three friends and hospital colleagues sought an entrepreneurial challenge. They found it in ice cream.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 2, 2011
Transatlantic Triumph

The recession is all about perspective, say a pair of British siblings who recently moved to the Gulf Coast. Now they aim to make a go of American entrepreneurialism.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • August 2, 2023
Pasco County bank expands but also stays local

A chartered bank from Dade City is growing, thanks to cannabis, diversified income and customer service. It also recently promoted more than 20 employees.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • November 9, 2022
Panel: Resiliency post-Ian will take commitment, consistency

Speakers at the Post Hurricane Response and Recovery Event want communities to take the time to build resilient structures.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2007
Cell-ing the Future

T3 Communications, a Fort Myers-based telecommunications company, is growing at a rapid pace as it continues to add new business customers. Enter Adam Sewall, the company's new president and CEO.Sewall comes with impressive telecom credentials. Most recently, he was senior vice president of business development and operations for Fastmobile, a mobile-phone messaging provider. Previously, he was a venture partner at Comventures, a leading venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley, chief executive officer of Spectrum Wireless, and director of sales and strategic planning for Omnipoint, a cellular phone company that T-Mobile bought in 1999 for $11.6 billion.T3 Communications offers voice and data telecommunication services exclusively to business customers. The company provides services that include local and long-distance calling, toll-free lines, messaging, Internet and e-mail.The Review recently spoke with Sewall about his personal interests and his strategy for T3 Communications.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2007
Coffee Talk

A Bridge to Celebration: Rob Morris is one happy developer these days: The project he dreamed of three years ago - a $3.5 million bridge that will serve as an entrance to his firm's Sarasota condo project along the Phillippi River - is officially completed. And better yet, it came in early and under budget.Icahn hedge funds lose on WCI bet: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn's bet on WCI Communities led to the first quarterly decline of his hedge funds since they opened three years ago, Bloomberg reported recently.Standing in defiance of the market: On Nov. 7, elected officials, Pinellas County staff, and The Sembler Co. leadership grabbed shovels and broke ground for Sembler's first standalone residential community called Duval Park, a new traditional neighborhood in the heart of Pinellas County in Lealman.Bonds show WCI's odds of survival: Bond prices are always a good indicator of corporate health.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 30, 2005
Turning Point

South Florida condo converters Barry Appel and Abbey Berkowitz have found a hot market in the Tampa Bay area.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Coffee Talk

Slowdown? What slowdown?: Judging from the building-permit data in Lee County, you wouldn't think there's a construction slowdown looming.The optimist: Just when you thought hurricanes, insurance shocks and rising interest rates were starting to choke off the phenomenal growth of Florida's housing market, at least one economist is staying positive.Neogenomics profitable: Neogenomics, a small Fort Myers-based genetic cancer-testing firm recently achieved its first quarterly profit.Remarkable individual:Ali Ebrahimi, president/owner of Houston-based Ersa Grae Corp. and developer of downtown Sarasota's prominent Plaza at Five Points, has a remarkable personal story.Chico's is buying low: The stock of Fort Myers-based Chico's FAS has been hit hard this spring following disappointing sales numbers.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 4, 2012
Top Salespeople: The Zen Master

Philippe Martin says having a genuinely positive attitude is the key to successful sales. A French joie de vivre helps him sell Porsches.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 30, 2020
Major retailer targets three-phased reopen plan

One of the region’s largest retailers prepares for reentry. ‘It was much easier to close stores than it has been to reopen them,’ new CEO says.

  • News
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • May 17, 2023
Three eateries in Tampa earn Michelin star

The restaurants in the 2023 Michelin guide are Koya, Lilac and Rocca.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2009
FDIC approves Naples bank merger

In the midst of the credit collapse and tightening federal standards, opening a bank on the Gulf Coast has been all but impossible.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2003
Broker of the Year: Overview

David Conn knows it. Barry Seidel certainly does. And so does David Stevens. These commercial real estate brokers know success comes from more than customer service. It comes from superior customer service. All three excelled last year, in a year full of

  • Opinion
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