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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 17, 2025
St. Pete tech giant to invest $500M in new US facility

The company sees domestic manufacturing as key to preserving AI technology.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 20, 2022
MLB commissioner ratchets up urgency of Rays’ stadium situation

Rob Manfred says "the time has come" for a resolution to the team’s cloudy future.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 12, 2025
SWFL botanical garden wins $1.3M in state funding for event center

Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs celebrates its 90-year anniversary in 2026.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 15, 2025
Lee Health CEO to step down

The health system executive will stay on until Sept. 30 when his contract expires.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 19, 2026
Hoffmann Family sets opening date for Naples boutique

The Augusta Clothing Co., the upscale shop, will have a soft opening March 20 and a grand opening the following day.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 14, 2022
Christi Scherer Bock, 37

TDS Construction Inc., CEO

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2007
Give us a Voice

Many Gulf Coast businesses and organizations are up in arms against the Hometown Democracy movement, but its supporters say the criticisms are incorrect and overblown and the economy is not in danger.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • November 1, 2018
A letter to no-party affiliated voters: You have the power

ur preference on the role of government would be one that serves as a referee in disputes among its citizens and to protect its citizens from others from inflicting physical force.

  • Opinion
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2022
My father’s business, built on hustle, teaches valuable lessons

Family-run company can be more about what you learn from one another as the bottom line. In the Llovio family, the lessons are about grit, resilience and, notably, love.

  • Opinion
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 2, 2015
The word for 2015: 'Aspire'

Each year, you make resolutions. A variation on that is to select a word, one word to live by for the next 12 months.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 21, 2023
Longstanding family-run insurance firm promotes third-generation leader to CEO

Austin Boyd has been with the company since 2013.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 23, 2023
Prominent political aide named director of New College Foundation

Sydney Gruters has worked for a pair of U.S. representatives.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 8, 2022
Brooklyn buyers pay $240 million for nearly 2,500-unit multifamily portfolio

The statewide 14-property portfolio includes six properties on the Gulf Coast.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • June 17, 2022
Symposium to reveal findings from series of resiliency studies

Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council's June 23 event will examine how key coastal areas can prepare for catastrophic flooding.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 5, 2013
Internet office

Having a showroom helps to sell office furniture online.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 9, 2012
JRL Enterprises buying Wellcraft facility

Cape Coral-based JRL Enterprises Inc. announced plans to purchase the former Wellcraft manufacturing facility in south Manatee County to expand the composite tool-making business of an affiliated company, JRL Ventures Inc.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 6, 2021
Prominent Wall Street firm moving HQ from Manhattan to downtown St. Pete

Cathie Wood-led ARK Investment Management is moving its headquarters to 200 Central in St. Petersburg; will help build innovation center

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2020
Resort, sold for a $250M redevelopment project, faces last season

The Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club opened in 1946.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 1, 2020
Penler buys Manatee County apartments

The Tradition at Palm Aire apartments become the latest suburban multifamily rental property to trade amid the oronavirus pandemic.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2020
Real estate firm aims to bring in more agents through million-dollar plan

Mark Coppens runs downtown Sarasota-based Living Vogue Real Estate with his wife, Jamie Coppens.

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