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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 20, 2019
Developer plans pickleball facility at former skating rink

Brian McCarthy of Starboard Tack LLC, a Sarasota-based commercial real estate development firm, is leading the effort.

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  • January 17, 2020
Health care software firm aims for 80% sales growth

Naples-based HealthLynked projects a strong 2020.

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  • March 24, 2020
Entertainment giant lays off large chunk of workforce

Company relocated production headquarters to region in 2012.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • April 7, 2020
CEO gives up $3 million salary, in addition to company furloughs

Kathryn Marinello was named CEO of Hertz in 2017.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 13, 2020
Area group temporarily closes company-owned restaurants

The group has 309 company-owned restaurants and 73 franchise locations.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2020
Nurse creates app to help with home health care planning

Venice-based Marrelli and Associates has developed an app that allows clinicians to create and share care plans for patients living at home.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 26, 2019
Blackstone fund buys St. Petersburg apartments

Blackstone Group continues to buy Gulf Coast apartment projects, even as it prepares to shift its corporate structure to a corporation this summer.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • May 24, 2019
Group starts intensive outpatient program for addiction, opioid recovery

Sarasota Addiction Specialists has started group sessions to help treat people with addictions of all kinds.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 24, 2019
Cortland refinances Tampa projects with $106 million loan

Cortland Partners refinances Tampa-area apartment projects and reconfigures ownership

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • March 29, 2022
Charlotte County Airport authority vice chair charged with election fraud

James Walker Herston was elected in 2020.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • March 10, 2022
Pair of popular Naples golf courses tees up renovations

The courses debuted more than 30 years ago.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 25, 2022
Cybersecurity startup names industry veteran to board as growth picks up

Andrew Peterson has previous experience of scaling up startups including one that ended in an $825 million sale.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • February 22, 2022
Flight training school lands 10 new planes

Delivery is part of a five-year plan to triple the fleet at Paragon Flight Training.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2022
Tampa lighting firm raises its minimum wage to $20 per hour

Tampa-based Volt Lighting has raised its minimum wage to $20 per hour, saying the state’s $10/hour requirement is not a living wage.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • September 26, 2018
Hospital system to pay $260 million in penalties

Former Naples-based HMA resolves charges related to fraudulent hospital charges to government health care programs.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • September 13, 2019
Florida regains its population growth mojo

Report: Florida will be on the cusp of 23 million people by 2025.

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  • October 4, 2019
Former general contractor writes book to encourage kids to consider construction careers

Retired remodeler believes too few young people are becoming carpenters, plumbers, electricians and other skilled laborers.

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  • 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.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 22, 2019
Starwood Capital buys trio of Marriott hotels

Starwood Capital has invested $79 million to acquire a trio of Marriott-branded, extended stay hotels near major airports in Tampa and Fort Myers from an Atlanta company.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • April 19, 2019
New Yorkers continue to flee the state for Florida

The battle between New York and Florida has shifted, for now, from bagels vs. oranges, or snow against sun, to something more tangible: people. Florida is getting them, in droves, from New York (and several other northeast states.)

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