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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 27, 2023
After 21 years, Tampa ReStore location moving

The store, which sell of building materials and other items to raise money for affordable housing, is relocating to a larger location later this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 4, 2023
Growing Tampa IT firm names new CEO

As cyber threats grow, Robert Atherton will lead a Tampa IT services company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 5, 2025
$174M Bradenton construction company names new CEO and president

NDC Construction has a new executive at the helm, while the owner transitions to chair.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 24, 2025
DeSantis signs legislation aimed at bringing relief to Florida condo owners

The new law is intended to ease the financial burden condo owners are facing after safety rules were approved in 2022.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2023
Fort Myers center expands list of tenants with two restaurants

The Bell Tower center expects McGregor’s Public House and La Ola Surfside Restaurant to be open this spring.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 7, 2024
Sarasota nonprofit names new president/CEO

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast identified its new leader following a national search.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 8, 2023
$12.5 million in county funding to four Pinellas affordable housing projects

County leaders approved funding in May to help bring more affordable housing units online.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By S.T. Cardinal |
  • October 16, 2025
Longboat Starbucks 'on hold' with build-out yet to start

It has been eight months since the arrival of Starbucks to Longboat Key was announced, and interior work is yet to start.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 4, 2025
Report: Florida CEOs more optimistic than national peers

Florida CEOs have more plans to hire and invest in the next six months compared with their national counterparts, according to a new report from the Florida Council of 100.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 21, 2025
342 jobs cut as Bahama Breeze closes 5 Florida restaurants

The Darden-owned chain is shuttering 15 restaurants across the state and nation, including one in Naples.

  • Florida
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • February 27, 2026
ZooTampa raises $33M toward largest expansion to date

The money helped complete the zoo’s Florida Waters exhibit and expand its existing Straz Family Manatee Rescue.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • March 17, 2026
Breeze Airways brings two new international flights to TPA

The airline will begin offering nonstop flights from Tampa to Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic later this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 7, 2025
Historic, yes; could be better

Credit Speaker Perez and his House colleagues for finally reining in spending. But there are still political gimmicks and pet projects in the budget.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 21, 2018
Semi-national bank, with $22 billion in assets, relies on area tech unit

With 10 patents and four more pending, OZK Labs — beyond the murals and free Starbucks — is doing some cool work for Little Rock-based Bank OZK, formerly Bank of the Ozarks. But this isn’t technology for technology’s sake. The overarching goal of the unit

  • Finance
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 14, 2022
Peter Griscom, 33

Van Dyke Acquisitions, principal and operating partner

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2008
Downtown Survivor

Raimond Aulen's bar in downtown Fort Myers has survived bad city ordinances, years of street repairs and now aneconomic slump. It doesn't inspire investor confidence.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 3, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Judges neededNo help from Hollywood Youire invitedFlorida: Middle of the pack

  • News
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 18, 2018
Forge Ahead

It takes cunning commitment to make it as an entrepreneur.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 6, 2018
Leader behind $800M business shares success secrets

From the importance of profit sharing to not bothering employees on weekends, retired Southwest Florida executive Glenn Hasse has learned lots of business lessons.

  • Leadership
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 6, 2013
Always running

A small running specialty store in Fort Myers sells the most Newton shoes in the country on a per-square-foot basis.

  • Strategies
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