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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 11, 2019
Is Florida losing its headquarters mojo?

Florida took a less publicized, but still tough hit, in early December. That’s when the PGA of America announced plans to jettison its headquarters for the past 50 years, Palm Beach Gardens, for a new home in Frisco, Texas, outside Dallas.

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2019
Major retailer rolls out new tools for customers, employees in Florida

Walmart's retail innovations include grocery pickup and pickup towers.

  • News
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  • By Ted Carter |
  • December 23, 2016
Corporate report

Port expands capabilities with the new cargo area; Law firm grows again, adds three attorneys; School opens second campus in region; Construction underway on senior living complex

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 11, 2017
Business leaders to form new community bank

Onetime Gateway Bank of Southwest Florida executive Dennis Murphy is the proposed president and CEO of the new bank.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2014
Observer buys The West Orange Times

The Observer Media Group has added another member to its family of community newspapers this week.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Steven Benna |
  • September 23, 2016
Corporate report

Health care firm hires new medical director; Mosquito company wins innovation award; Payroll firm announces health care partnership; Law firm names new managing partner

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 18, 2015
Commercial Real Estate

BayView forms finance arm; 'It's 2005 all over again'

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 28, 2024
Report: Some Floridians, pointing to high rents, are moving to Georgia

A new Florida TaxWatch report finds signs that rents are beginning to hold steady and that Florida residents have been migrating to Georgia.

  • Florida
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 27, 2023
Report: Florida's small business survival record spotty

As Florida's economy booms, small business support needs work.

  • Florida
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 12, 2023
St. Pete names new economic development leader

After months of looking for a CEO, St. Pete Area EDC picks candidate from Iowa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • November 17, 2023
Sarasota arts foundation chooses former Miami ballet exec as CEO

The Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation has made Tania Castroverde Moskalenko its new CEO.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 9, 2025
Food distribution giant opens 1M-square-foot facility in southern Manatee

Grocery wholesaler United Natural Foods Inc. aims to improve operational efficiency and employee experience with its new distribution center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • October 3, 2025
USF Credit Union expands outside Tampa Bay for first time

USF Credit Union is expanding to Winter Park, with an expected opening date in spring 2026.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • August 1, 2023
Tampa General, Sarasota Memorial among best hospitals in Florida

U.S. News and World Report ranks two Gulf Coast hospitals as the top in the Sunshine State.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 30, 2025
TV chef Geoffrey Zakarian to run St. Petersburg hotel’s flagship restaurant

Developer Ellison Development has chosen the renowned celebrity chef to operate the new restaurant at its upcoming Autograph Collection hotel and office tower.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • December 11, 2025
Tampa eye care nonprofit to break ground on $16M Ybor City project

The Lions World Vision Institute will break ground Friday on its new Vision Health Center adjacent to its Ybor City headquarters.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 7, 2018
The eyes have it for inventive opthalmologist

Dr. Alexander Eaton of Retina Health Center invents XactDrop, a stabilizing eye drop device.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 15, 2009
Express Success

Brian Cardinale and Jim Matzke's online seafood business was just a few months old when a whale of the restaurant business came calling last year. The recession kept them from capsizing.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • August 12, 2020
Private jet firms in region hope to land new opportunities during pandemic

The pandemic has caused turbulence for the commercial aviation industry. Area companies involved in private aviation, on the other hand, are seeing new customers in the midst of the coronavirus.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 18, 2019
Pair of older St. Pete Beach hotels are ripe for repositioning

Gencom Group's $100 million acquisition of the Grand Plaza Resort and the Beachcomber Hotel & Resort on St. Pete Beach may be part of a corporate shift toward more intense management while preparing for an eventual redevelopment of the properties.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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