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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 8, 2012
Utility top exec to retire

Vincent Dolan, with Progress Energy for 26 years, will leave by 2013.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Eric Garwood |
  • September 15, 2025
$132M Sarasota aquarium sets early October opening date

Members get first views on Oct. 6-7 and public on Oct. 8 at the Mote SEA, located near University and Interstate 75 in Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 9, 2011
Sarasota condo sales pick up

Condo sales are up 8% through the first seven months of the year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 3, 2023
Famed Parisian fashion house Chanel opens Tampa store

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a mobile home park is bought in Fort Myers, a Virginia convinience store sells in Palmetto, and retailers open in Tampa.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Erica Tillery, 36

Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Hodges University

  • Class of 2014
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 14, 2018
Canadian company buys Westshore Embassy Suites hotel

Westmont Hospitality Group, a Canadian company with offices in Houston, has acquired the 243-room Embassy Suites hotel in the Westshore section of Tampa for nearly $43 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 18, 2014
Web Printer

A printer makes a big push into the online world and scores a contract for a high profile economic development website to promote the Southwest Florida region.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 26, 2009
The U.S. economy: 'Rescued to death'

Donald Luskin is not a Pollyanna by nature, and he is staying true to that when looking at our economic future.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 11, 2024
$20M Fort Myers Beach portfolio, including restaurant, listed for sale

Bonita Bill's Waterfront Café is part of a multi-property collection of properties that has been put on the market and a sign of the imminent change coming to the community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 1, 2025
Sarasota-based physical therapy franchise names new CEO

Fyzical Therapy & Balance Centers appointed a new leader for its next phase of growth.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 5, 2023
Pair of business pulse surveys: Worries are percolating

Economic optimism continues to fade.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2010
Trinity offers help with big gift delivery

Online shoppers are often stymied by the cost of getting large or heavy items delivered, no matter how good a deal they get.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 8, 2017
The old college try

You really don't need that bachelor's degree.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2015
Famous Tate grabs Pinellas

A longtime Pinellas County mainstay will shut off its lights for the final time as Apsco Appliance & TV Centers Inc. becomes the property of long-time regional competitor Famous Tate of Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 26, 2020
Hotel management, development firm opens new hotel

SpringHill Suites Lakeland, a new hotel in Lakeland, Florida, officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, June 25.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 3, 2009
Her Own Style

A super-sized gamble is paying off for a gutsy entrepreneur who left a six-figure salary to go solo. 'I haven't given up on this economy yet,' she says.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2013
Goodwill e-commerce booming

It's not just the Goodwill thrift stores that are doing brisk business these days.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 31, 2016
Tampa venture capital firm promotes two, invests $5 million

Ballast Point Ventures invested $5 million in equity into TicketBiscuit.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 29, 2021
Developer obtains $92M loan for 17-story residential building in region

BTI Partners funded construction of its Marina Pointe condo tower, in the Westshore Marina District, with equity until a loan was obtained last month.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 28, 2021
Misery loves company: Companies nationwide struggle to fill open spots

Some parts of the region are among the lowest in unemployment rates.

  • Travel-Tourism
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