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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2007
Coffee Talk

Donut entrepreneur focuses on Far East: Sarasota entrepreneur Marvin Kaplan is selling a majority of his stake in 18 Gulf Coast Dunkin' Donuts shops, just as he gets closer to his long-stated goal of opening a series of stores for the franchise in China.Downturn claims advertising victim: AdvertisingWorks, a 12-year-old advertising firm in Naples that recently won several awards at the Collier Building Industry Association's annual Sand Dollar Awards, is closing its doors.Downturn claims advertising victim: AdvertisingWorks, a 12-year-old advertising firm in Naples that recently won several awards at the Collier Building Industry Association's annual Sand Dollar Awards, is closing its doors.Tampa International needs more international flights: CEOs that travel appreciate Tampa International Airport after sprinting through endless terminals and riding trams, escalators and moving sidewalks for what seems like miles at other airports.Nationwide pullout opens opportunity: You can appreciate cost cutting if you run a business. But it's a tad different when the cost cutting may affect you.Bank of America surge: made in Tampa: Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis made some headlines earlier this year when he urged his top managers to "Go for the jugular" in taking more market share.WCI's winners: Bankers and lawyers: Shareholders and bondholders of Bonita Springs-based WCI Communities are licking their wounds as the value of their holdings h

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 12, 2013
Total excellence

The IMG Academy expansion project, nearly $200 million over 15 years, is a grand attempt to capitalize on a growth opportunity. The project is off to a fast start.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 14, 2022
Consumer trends and unwieldy buildings drag down price of mall properties

Once coveted mall properties now sell for a fraction of what was once a big ticket.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 15, 2023
Another tech firm relocates to Tampa Bay as West Coast costs rise

California companies, in flee-mode for years, are more and more looking at Florida as a No. 1 option.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2008
Coffee Talk

Of fairy tales and housing sales: When Michael Saunders recently addressed the 400 or so real estate agents that make up the bulk of the sales force at the Sarasota-based firm that bears her name, she wanted to combine a pep talk with humor.New Dillard's store may mean transition: Dillard's has started construction on a new store at the sprawling Wiregrass Ranch mixed-use development in Wesley ChapelPopulation slowdown threatens Gators: Construction isn't the only thing that's going to suffer from a decline in population growth in Florida.Non-profit CEO, for-profit style: Mary Labyak, 59, is president and CEO of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast in Clearwater.Retired entrepreneur gives big for Wellness: An ambitious fundraising campaign for a new building for the Wellness Community, a Sarasota-based support group for cancer patients and their families, is off to a rousing start.Luxury hotel secret officially official: One of the worst kept secrets in the Sarasota development community is no longer a secretCalling GULF COAST entrepreneurs: The Review is seeking the best and brightest Gulf Coast entrepreneurs for its 2008 Entrepreneur Award.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 15, 2018
Nonprofit grows budget 500% in four years — to $157 million

Rick Carlisle, CAN Community Health, Sarasota, nonprofits, strategy, HIV/AIDS, health care, growth, 501 (c) 3, Rev. Demetrius Jifunza, Roger Capote, Fruitville Road, Guidestar

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 25, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Exeter Property Group buys Fowler centerFurniture Row Cos. buys Tampa warehouseBright House buys Brandon centerJoMar Development plans port industrial parkInvestors buy Holmes Beach propertiesFederal Express plans Manatee centerOaks Development buys, restructures Cypress CenterCole buys Fort Myers Pep Boys, eight othersLutgert renovates Village on Venetian BayFort Myers group buys office building

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 17, 2006
Sweet Equity

A literal hands-on entrepreneur learns how to grow by letting go. After starting the business on $6,000 in combined family savings, he's grown it to $10 million in annual revenues.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 22, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Tampa)

Jacaranda Beach Villas sold for $19.3 millionKinderCare Learning Centers obtain $10.7 million mortgageAlexan at Legacy Crescent Place bought for $40 millionFranklin Street condominiumfoundation work beginsHilton Hotel at Redington Beach obtains refinancing mortgageFirst Tampa Development Corp. buys land in St. PetersburgECI Group of Georgia buys Champions Point apartmentsRottlund Homes buys lots from Covered Bridge TownhomesWal-Mart closes deal on purchase of land for Tarpon Springs centerRogers Beach Development buys apartment building in Clearwater

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Sembler Co. develops S.R. 64 Eckerd storeWalters family buys Bradenton's Globe TrailersThree Najmy brothers buy Sand Pebble ApartmentsSunset Automotive Group buys Mitsubishi land, franchise

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 25, 2011
Corporate Report: Mar. 25

The latest news from Sanibel Captiva, SinoFresh Healthcare, and other Gulf Coast companies.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 20, 2024
One year later, Florida legislators are updating the $711 million Live Local Act

Two pieces of legislation are making their way through the Florida Legislature aimed at tweaking and updating the affordable housing legislation passed with wide bipartisan support last year.

  • Florida
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 23, 2025
New SRQ airport CEO reflects on first month on the job

New Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport President and CEO Paul Hoback equates SRQ and the region to living and working in paradise.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
Coffee Talk

Health Management Associates sent a clear message to the private-equity vultures circling the Naples-based hospital chain: Back off. Steven Kossoff, principal of Clearwater's Meridian Development Group paid $7.3 million for Lakeland Interstate Business Park in September 2005. It was his firm's first investment in Florida after relocating to the state from Buffalo, N.Y.t's no surprise that companies in Florida lack easy access to venture capital. Still, it's disconcerting to realize last year's VC funding in the Sunshine State dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade.The strategy of knowing your customers, making sound asset and loan decisions and going after condo association deposits might not be exciting, but in the case of Sarasota-based People's Community Bancshares, it sure has been profitable: The bank is regularly one of the top performing community banks in the Sarasota market.It wasn't a good week to be either an executive or a shareholder - or both - with Bradenton-based Coast Bank.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2003
Coffee Talk

This week's items: Quote from Michael Kovac Executive Director of High Technology Engineering Development Old Station in Fort Myers soldCell phone linking to UPC bar codes in Fort MyersJudicial Qualifications Commission case

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2007
Culture Counts

Bayshore Technologies, a Tampa-based information technology company, creates a caring culture to build loyalty among employees and grow sales.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 21, 2008
Corporate Report

Barron Colliers, Lutgerts buy into TIBTaylor Morrison using AT&T networkMiva pay-click divisiontargets mobile viewers

  • Industries
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 24, 2005
Rapid Escalation

Condo developer demand for industrial-warehouse land in Tampa's Channel District is pushing prices beyond $100 a square foot.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 4, 2010
Doubters Downed

A 25-year corporate sales veteran, prompted partially by his wife, gave up a six-figure income to sell hamburgers and fries. Where there is risk, there can be reward.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • October 29, 2010
Constitutional Queries

Voters get their chance at six more proposed constitutional amendments Nov. 2. Together and individually the results could have huge effects on politics, taxes and the economy for years to come.

  • Florida
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