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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 4, 2014
Sweet Lou

Buying insurance can be confusing, if not maddening. One executive aims to take away the pain, an approach that clearly works: Annual premiums at his firm are up almost 60% since 2011.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 25, 2013
Big Smile

A Fort Myers dentist hopes a new office with a theme-park atmosphere will keep kids and their parents coming back.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 5, 2016
Niche player

Industrial Realty Solutions focuses on one thing as a formula for success.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 21, 2016
Open wide

Progressive Dental Marketing has grown by retaining customers, layering on new services and becoming an expert in its field.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 8, 2016
The X Factor

Co-work office space is in high demand as the ranks of freelance workers swell. Entrepreneurs David and Brett Diamond plan to franchise their concept, Venture X.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 8, 2016
A big squeeze

Technology is allowing companies to put more workers into smaller spaces. But that shift has also added more parking.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 15, 2016
Exit strategy

Osprey Real Estate Services spent years amassing an enviable office portfolio along the Gulf Coast. Now, it's for sale.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • May 23, 2016
Executive Q&A: Fight industry exec does grunt work, too

Tampa marketing executive Michael Weber combines instinct with technology.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 29, 2016
Commercial repeat

Despite high valuations and concerns about economic growth, experts say commercial real estate will repeat with another year of solid performance.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 26, 2014
Rift in the lift

When sales took a dive at a niche manufacturing business, the top executive made a bold move that he likens to starting a second company.

  • Strategies
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 15, 2015
Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame

Every year we run the numbers, certain names keep topping our list of candidates. Here, we recognize past winners who continue to drive extraordinary growth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 5, 2015
READ AND COMMENT | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

The call of media editorialists, state senators and altruists for expanding Obamacare's Medicaid program in Florida remains a cacophonous drumbeat of pots and pans.

  • Opinion
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 16, 2024
Developer pays nearly $18M for 195 acres along I-75 in Punta Gorda

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota tower is approved, four Tampa properties are included in $1.5 billion portfolio sale, and a Cape Coral pizza joint opens.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 4, 2025
Naples firm reaches deal to buy one of the largest poinsettia growers in the US

HF Companies. will acquire N.G. Heimos Greenhouses, billed as one of the nation’s largest poinsettia growers and preeminent greenhouses.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 12, 2024
Tampa apartment owner pays $134 million for waterfront complex

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a credit union moves into a former Venice insurance office, a restaurant chain looks for space in Tampa, and a luxury Naples car dealer gets a new store.

  • Florida
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 4, 2024
Downtown Sarasota mixed-use project to get cafe in 2025, several restaurants

"This side of Main Street was not the most energetic side," says Eric Fenton, vice president of development for Belpointe.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Vinnie Portell |
  • January 24, 2025
National homebuilder set to open new east Manatee County country club

Lakewood Ranch's newest golf course, Calusa Country Club, will feature 30 holes and a socialized concept.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 8, 2024
Buyer found for 6,000-acre Collier farm listed at $59 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Sarasota office building sells, apartment buyer gets $52 million loan for Tampa apartments and $39 million in grants for affordable housing in Lee County.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 23, 2025
983-square-foot Captiva building sold for $1.5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Fort Myers apartment complex sells, a Pasco hotel owner gets a $14 million loan, and a Naples contractor is hired to usher through a major Sarasota condo project.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 27, 2021
Plant City berry farm's new state-of-the-art headquarters a nod to the future and the past

Wish Farms, a nearly century-old Plant City farm, gets flashy with its new company headquarters. There's also some purpose behind the pretty details.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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