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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2016
Tampa doctor buys downtown Sarasota Hyatt

Equity fund Blackstone Group had owned the hotel since May 2007.

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  • July 3, 2021
Beef over family fortune is nothing new for a Sarasota meat company

Heirs battle over fortune.

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  • April 27, 2018
Bank celebrates opening of new downtown headquarters

The opening of Sabal Palm Bank's building in downtown Sarasota attracted well-wishers from throughout the community.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 11, 2025
New Jersey investors pay $10M for Tampa industrial property

The Stro Cos. and KRE expand thier local portfolio with the purchase of a propery in the city's Drew Park neighborhood.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 6, 2023
Fort Myers Beach's future questioned as another hotel property sells

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a St. Pete luxury high rise nears $150 million in sales, a Naples storage facility sells, and the owner of a former Sarasota mall looks to rezone.

  • Florida
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  • May 9, 2019
County sets record for tourism tax revenue

Hillsborough County, Florida, collected $4.3 million in Tourist Development funds, also known as bed taxes, in March 2019, an increase of 5.9% over March 2018.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 30, 2012
Florida's low tax rate praised

National survey, for second time this month, boosts state's business climate.

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  • September 4, 2015
Super day for financial firm

For the second year in a row, executives with Sarasota-based Global Financial Private Capital were invited to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

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  • November 28, 2014
Wireless firm sells $1.3M in shares

Buyers of xG Technology stock include a Chicago-based institutional investor.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • November 16, 2015
Daytime cafe continues rapid expansion

First Watch Restaurants is opening a new restaurant in Virginia.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • November 21, 2014
Contentment is the enemy

Visit Sarasota County president Virginia Haley spent a recent lunch hour telling area hotel sales and marketing executives about how good the county has been doing in tourism.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 9, 2025
Nearly $19.5M for 26 acres to build warehouse project

A pair of commercial real estate investment firms are developing a 331,000-square-foot industrial warehouse project in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Tom Johnson |
  • January 26, 2018
Retail Optimism 2018: Traffic Drives Retail

Insights from the strong spending during the 2017 holiday-shopping season.

  • Lakewood Ranch Commercial
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 8, 2024
Publix pays $223 million for seven Florida shopping centers

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Sarasota County is conserving more than 600 acres, a Tampa industrial building sells to New Jersey buyers, and Venice is getting a new 7-Eleven.

  • Florida
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 17, 2020
Lakeland industrial project continues development wave

Xebec Realty’s speculative industrial project planned for Lakeland is the latest Interstate 4 Corridor offering aimed at capturing demand for distribution and fulfillment sites.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • July 27, 2023
Tampa bed tax collections rise 15%

June numbers show Hillsborough County could exceed $1 billion in taxable revenue.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • April 21, 2025
Sarasota County leaders to consider land buy for jail expansion

The Main Street parcel would be an early step in a yearslong process to add space to the over-capacity facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • January 15, 2010
October Index of Retail Activity

Every area of the Gulf Coast fared better than the index's statewide average (-4.9%) on an annual percentage change basis.

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  • November 21, 2013
Pest control biz surpasses $18M in sales

Arrow Environmental Services also expands outside Florida for the first time.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 10, 2015
Property management hits on growth

The fast rise in sales and holdings at Gulf Coast Property Management continues to impress the firm's founder and CEO, Andy Moore.

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