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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 27, 2020
Hotel offers up retail therapy for beleaguered merchants

Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa is making its 784-square-foot Chartroom East and 952-square-foot Chartroom West available on a month-to-month basis for local retailers and vendors whose operations have been hampered by the pandemic.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 13, 2019
Report names Florida No. 2 state for startups

The Sunshine State had the most new business applications nationally.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 21, 2019
Area tech firm bolsters executive team with e-commerce veteran

Fintech, a Tampa, Florida-based business solutions provider for the beverage alcohol industry, has named Dan Gaertner chief technology officer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 6, 2018
Machinery firm brings HQ, jobs to region

A large manufacturer of CNC wire bending machines plans to invest $4 million in a new Hillsborough County headquarters facility and hire 45 local workers. Automated Industrial Machinery Inc. will move to Tampa from Illinois.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 25, 2022
Hospitality company acquires another hotel in Sarasota

The move was by design as the president of Kolter Hospitality expressed bullish feelings regarding the area's market for travel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 7, 2017
Plant a seed

De novo banks sprouting new growth and give hope for the industry.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 15, 2017
BTI sells another tract in Marina District

BTI Partners has notched yet another major sale within its Westshore Marina District project, bringing to 32 the number of acres sold or committed this year within the 54-acre project in South Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 7, 2017
Home is where the art is

Floridians really love their art.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 19, 2018
Sarasota industrial inventory tightening

United Natural Foods Inc. took down an additional 40,038 square feet in Sarasota's Independent Business Center last fall, expanding on the 90,000 square feet it already had in the same park space the food distributor maintains in the massive Meridian Distribution Center off Clark Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 14, 2014
Tampa Honda Land sold

The Williams Automotive Group plans to rename the former Scott-McRae Group dealership, Tampa Honda.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 1, 2013
CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder

The firm's main products are the CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder. The sensor is a pill that transmits a body temperature while it travels through the digestive track.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2016
Relief put to good use

The Business Rent Tax Coalition, a lobbying effort to eliminate the state's commercial lease tax, has personalized its strategy.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 30, 2014
Former Sarasota Jackson Hewitt exec counts new gig

Danamichele Brennen oversaw a Jackson Hewitt call center from 2007 to 2011.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2014
California investment group buys Cleveland Avenue Holiday Inn

The Encino, Calif.-based investment group, made up of Singh family and led by Daniel Singh, purchased the 122-room Holiday Inn Fort Myers Downtown Historic for $5.15 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 23, 2015
Brothers grab funding for movie industry startup

Folio Holdings says it will help take the risk out of distributing independent films using its own analytics system.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 1, 2015
Hospitality company executive buys two sections of island

A company led by Tom Torgerson, CEO of the Willmar, Minn.-based hotel company TPI Hospitality, purchased two large portions of Fort Myers Beach for a combined $13.3 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • April 3, 2024
St. Pete College opens workforce hub named for former FL House speaker

St. Petersburg College is now welcoming visitors to the Chris Sprowls Workforce Innovation Hub at the Tarpon Springs campus.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 18, 2025
Sarasota County marks construction milestone at new high school

Willis Smith Construction recently completed the topping out of Wellen Park High School.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 28, 2023
Former city manager from Texas, business exec joins Sarasota EDC

Erik Zimmer’s business career was mostly in telecommunications.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 6, 2023
$400M builder appoints new financial controller

The new accounting services executive was most recently in Colorado.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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