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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 21, 2013
Bank oversells target with $5.6M capital raise

Neil McCurry will now officially take over the CEO role at Sabal Palm Bank.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • March 4, 2013
The StartupBus: The hackers, the hustlers and the hipsters

The StartupBus left Tampa Bay on Sunday, March 3 full of Florida-based buspreneurs (see what they did there? Bus + entrepreneurs = buspreneurs.)

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  • June 20, 2013
Nervous Nellie's owner buys building, surrounding marina

Fort Myers restaurateur Rob DeGennaro has made a big real estate play.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 12, 2013
Investor buys Placida Plaza, additional development land

The price equated to $34 per square foot for Placida Plaza.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • August 26, 2011
Taylor Morrison buys land for Esplanade at Lakewood Ranch

Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. purchased 207 acres of former grove land north of State Road 70 near Center Ice Parkway and Pope Road for $10.12 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 27, 2011
Shopping centers sell for $473M

Equity One sold a package of 36 assets that included Gulf Coast properties.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 6, 2011
BankAtlantic sells 19 branches

The Fort Lauderdale bank exits the Tampa Bay market to focus elsewhere.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 5, 2011
Louisiana investor group buys Puritan Place Apartments

An investor group headed by Richard Beaullieu of Lafayette, La. purchased the 232-unit Puritan Place Apartments for $4.06 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 2, 2013
Sales tax break idea is broken

Some tax wonks in a Washington, D.C., office are party poopers in Florida's much-celebrated three-day sales tax holiday, scheduled for Aug. 2-4.

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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • August 2, 2013
Minimum Wage, Maximum Controversy

Employees of fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC are on strike in cities from New York to Detroit.

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  • September 21, 2012
TerraCap Partners fund buys Coconut Office Center

The price equated to $72 per square foot.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • June 13, 2012
Former bank CEO gets six years

Orion Bank co-founder Jerry Williams previously admitted to fraud.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • October 12, 2012
Ideal Classic Cars buys Venice DeSears building

Michael and Evelyn Lombardo, owners of Ideal Classic Cars, purchased a 27,305-square-foot former DeSears building in Venice.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 30, 2012
Local company surges in employees and sales

Business is apparently good, really good, in the employment management and performance measurement industry.

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  • January 6, 2012
Louisiana investor group buys Armenia Village

An investor group headed by Richard Beaullieu of Lafayette, La., purchased the 70-unit Armenia Village Condominiums for $2.05 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 30, 2011
Circle at Crosstown sells for $35.25 million

Atlanta-based JMG Realty Inc. and Birmingham, Ala.-based HighPoint Holdings LLC have partnered to purchase the 300-unit Circle at Crosstown in Tampa for $35.25 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • March 17, 2012
Naples investor buys charter school building

Calvin Wible purchased a 20,695-square-foot building housing Cape Coral Preparatory and Fitness Academy for $2.29 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 2, 2021
Skills gap remains toughest obstacle to filling jobs in Florida

The state has recovered nearly one million jobs since the beginning of the pandemic, but there's more to go.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 22, 2021
New tenant joins retail roster of 52-acre waterfront development

Fitness studio Rock It Cycle signs on to Marine Landings, the retail development inside Westshore Marina District

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 2, 2021
Local rents continue to rise

Rents in St. Pete and Tampa among the fastest growing in the nation.

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