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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 11, 2013
Restaurant chain hires in bunches

If Florida Gov. Rick Scott comes through on the 700,000 jobs in seven years pledge he made in 2010, he might want to eat a celebratory burrito.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 15, 2013
Ashton Woods Homes buys first of Rosedale Links lots

The price equated to $86,000 per lot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 25, 2013
Economist: Housing market fuels improvement

Tampa Bay is ahead of the nation in creating new jobs, says J.P. Morgan's Anthony Chan.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2013
Re/Max Alliance building sold, new owner plans to subdivide

The price equated to $73 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2011
Regulation stalls bank's growth

Monty Weigel wants to grow his bank. But uncertainty about regulation of the banking industry has made the lender reticent to grow further.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 7, 2011
Hotel sells reminiscences, not rooms

One of the premier luxury hotels in Sarasota, the Ritz-Carlton, has a new message to attack the recession. It wants to measure a guest's stay in memories, not number of nights booked.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2011
Southern Corporate Packers buys larger packing warehouse

Southern Corporate Packers Inc. purchased a roughly 40,000-square-foot warehouse building on 6.62 acres on Global Drive for $950,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2011
Bradenton broker, foreign investors buy Charter House Apartments

Bradenton real estate broker Lenny Longo and Swedish investors Eastomo Holdings Limited purchased the 57-unit Charter House Apartments for $2.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2013
WCI swings to profitability

WCI Communities says homebuilding sales and average prices rose significantly.

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  • September 25, 2013
WellCare hires N.C. Medicaid director

Carol Steckel resigned her North Carolina position effective Oct. 11 to become WellCare's senior director of public policy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2013
Businessmen jump in to help move Iwo Jima statue

Local businessmen seek allies and donations to move the statue from New York to Sarasota-Bradenton.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 2, 2013
Homebuilder Toll Brothers plans 54-acre Spanish Wells community

The price equated to $84,537 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • November 28, 2012
Builders Care completes home in 17 days

On Nov. 16, Bob and Mary Garcia received a special gift from Builders Care, the nonprofit branch of the Lee Building Industry Association.

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  • June 17, 2011
St. Petersburg couple buys, renovating Grayl's Hotel

Real estate developer Chuck Prather and and Kathy Reilly Prather purchased the 22-unit Grayl's Hotel for $1.85 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2011
New Jersey investor buys Tampa Denny's

A New Jersey investment group purchased Denny's restaurant buildings in Tampa and Largo for a total of $2.44 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 7, 2012
Avesta Homes buys 43 apartment units

Tampa-based Avesta Homes LLC purchased a 43-unit portfolio of three adjacent apartment properties for $27,326 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 16, 2012
Micro Control Systems buys Emerson Control buildings

Micro Control Systems Inc. purchased the 39,819-square-foot former Emerson Control Techniques industrial buildings for $1.23 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2012
Franchise firm stars on TV show

Sarasota-based Clockwork Home Services was featured in an episode of the new AMC TV show “The Pitch.”

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  • January 2, 2012
Tech entrepreneur taps tyke for creativity

David Rajala doesn't need to look far for inspiration.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 18, 2021
Airport adds Key West to growing list of destinations

Allegiant will begin service to Key West out of St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport later this year

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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