Coffee Talk:Shareholder: Sell WCI Communities: Basswood Capital Management, a New York-based investment firm that owns 5% of the shares of Bonita Springs-based WCI Communities, says the homebuilding company should sell itself.Hail to the chief: Snagging the most powerful man in the world for your business comes with headaches. Plenty of headaches. But hopefully worthwhile headaches.Michigan real estate developer Brent Virkus, already swimming in the deep end of the downtown Sarasota condo pool, is adding to his ambitious portfolio by starting a real estate investment fund. Technology is the ultimate mixed blessing: Use it right, and it can be the catalyst for explosive revenue growth or an exhilarating new discovery.National foreclosure rates rose in September, but foreclosures in six of Florida's eight Gulf Coast counties served by the Review dropped, according to RealtyTrac Inc.Meridian Development Group is taking advantage of the growth occurring between Tampa-St. Petersburg and Fort Myers.Hedge fund Amaranth Advisors' recent energy-trade blowup was all the talk at a meeting of investment professionals in Naples recently.Some business people are wondering if Pasco County, a bedroom community to the north of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, is bent on stopping growth.Gevity is going through a management shift of its own.
