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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 30, 2024
Walmart closing all 23 Florida health centers, including 9 in Tampa Bay

The retail giant joins Walgreens in closing medical offices in the state and nationwide.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 17, 2004
Weathering the Storm

Commercial real estate industry is knocked about by the hurricanes, but still afloat.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 19, 2004
Carlie's Law

Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has drafted legislation to tighten the reins on probation violators.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2003
Newsmakers

Dick Risner is a new superintendent at J.L. Wallace Inc., a Fort Myers-based general contracting company.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 3, 2009
Marketplace of Ideas: Rich Uncle Pays Your Mortgage

Rockwell points out that more of the same policies that caused the mortgage problem will not fix it.

  • Florida
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • June 22, 2018
Area company heads up development of potential solution for opioid crisis

Sarasota's Robrady, working in tandem with physician assistant Afton Heitzenrater and others, is moving forward with a possible solution to the opioid crisis.

  • Health Care
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 23, 2015
What could go wrong?

The battle of words between a company and Sarasota County is hot. At stake: the biggest payout in the history of the county's economic development fund.

  • Florida
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • January 1, 2024
Data dive: Wages might increase, housing inventory might rebound

While the job market shows signs of slowing down, even a little, Florida remains a hot place to be.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 24, 2006
Copy That

Anne Mulcahy rescued American business icon Xerox Corp. from near bankruptcy. Her insights could help Gulf Coast businesses grow.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • August 15, 2014
Family Expert

Greg McCann has worked with hundreds of families and students around the country to address the unique challenges faced by family-owned businesses.

  • Strategies
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • July 13, 2023
Sarasota foster care and children's nonprofit names new CEO

The announcement came after an eight-month search.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2022
Private equity firm makes offer for Clearwater cybersecurity company

Vista Equity Partners says it will pay a 39% premium on all outstanding shares of KnowBe4 Inc.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 25, 2010
Foreclosure mess: A litigator's dream?

Sales at some of the Gulf Coast's busiest courthouses have slowed considerably while attorneys general from all 50 states crawl through the offices of major banks and foreclosure law firms.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2010
Toll booth coming up? Just keep on rolling

There's good and bad news for motorists along the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway through Tampa.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 9, 2010
Early Halloween: madness in Madeira

Talk of budget cuts by local governments around the Gulf Coast is commonplace this summer as taxable property values continue to decline.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2011
Michigan investors buy Central Avenue building

Two Lansing, Mich., businessmen purchased a 15,122-square-foot mixed-use building in downtown Sarasota's Rosemary District for $1.15 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2020
Airport CEO, spokeswoman, test positive for COVID-19

Both Joe Lopano and Veronica Cintron are doing well, say airport officials.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2019
Master-planned community sees 7% uptick in sales

With few exceptions, March saw sales increases for all villages and builders in Lakewood Ranch.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 10, 2017
Football championship blitzes back to region

All American Games has hosted a tournament in Naples for the past three years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2006
King of the City

An engineering and planning firm overcomes expansion anxiety. Its antidote is success, such as a 126% revenue jump since 2003, to more than $32 million in 2005.

  • Entrepreneurs
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