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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2015
Cancer lab wins purchasing deal

Cancer-testing firm NeoGenomics says it signed a group-purchasing agreement with Premier, which represents more than half the hospitals in the U.S.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2015
Sarasota hits nearly $300M in building permits

City surpasses 8,000 permits in one year for the first time.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 20, 2015
Wine fest boosts board

Fresh from raising more than $12.5 million over a long weekend at the Naples Winter Wine Festival in January, the Naples Children & Education Foundation announced new star power to its board.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 9, 2015
Arthrex named top workplace

Fortune magazine named Naples-based medical-device manufacturer Arthrex one of the top 100 companies to work for in the country.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 12, 2015
Punta Gorda airport traffic jumps

Passenger traffic at Punta Gorda Airport grew 18% in February compared with the same month a year ago as discount carrier Allegiant flew more people.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 27, 2015
SPCA buys Advanced Orthopedics Building

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Tampa Bay purchased the 12,480-square-foot former Advanced Orthopedics Building east of U.S. 19 for $936,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 21, 2015
Bonita Springs firm cooks up top chef

Innovative Food Holdings named Silvia De Antonio the chief culinary officer of The Fresh Diet, the meal-delivery company it acquired last summer.

  • News
  • By Laura Lyon |
  • November 26, 2024
Texas construction firm breaks ground on Valrico senior living community

The new facility will be 240,613 square feet.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 5, 2025
Lee County opens emergency center expansion ahead of hurricane season

The addition is designed to improve response capabilities.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 4, 2025
Plans to be submitted for $120 million St. Petersburg tower

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 28, 2023
Plant City apartments sell to NJ buyer for $31.6 million

A medical company sells its HQ, a new downtown high rise in the works, and a real estate firm gets into CRE top the week's commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 9, 2023
Construction to start on site of former Carousel Beach Inn

In the week's top commercial real estate news, two flex spaces sell, a Tampa hotel sells for $47 million, and a retailer plans to close two local stores.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 15, 2019
Amped up: PowerChord delivers hit after hit for clients

St. Petersburg, Florida, marketing firm PowerChord was founded by rock guitarist Pat Schunk, who was frustrated with buying music equipment online in the early days of e-commerce.

  • Industries
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 8, 2022
Developer changes hotel plan in hopes to avoid lawsuit with city

A Tampa developer going before City Council on Nov. 10 to win approval for a $40 million hotel plan will proceed with a lawsuit if turned down again.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • February 10, 2012
Capitol Chatter: Feb. 10

Small business tax breaks, prison privatization, and other Tallahassee topics.

  • Florida
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 20, 2020
Kolter to develop new Sarasota condo tower

Bayso Sarasota will be the latest project on the 15-acre Quay site downtown

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 28, 2018
Area businesswoman — one fan is a Kardashian — delivers on new baby-centric business

Erika Perry , 32, started the company in 2014, while she was living in Chicago. The Stork Bag. The name plays off the iconic image of a stork delivering its infant package and also shows that it differs from the typical subscription box. (Items are sent i

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 8, 2019
Sarasota's Main Plaza sells for $20 million

Belpointe REIT Inc., of Greenwich, Conn., has purchased Sarasota's Main Plaza for $20 milion and plans a series of new apartments and offices on the 8.5-acre, downtown site.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 26, 2018
Becoming CCIM

Despite lengthy classes, required experience and a grueling final exam, the CCIM designation is gaining popularity.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Gustavo 'Gus' Cobeaga, 34

Naples City President, Regions Bank

  • Class of 2014
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