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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 12, 2021
Florida is a national leader in construction spending

Florida, along with Texas and a few other states, mostly in the South, tops the nation’s construction surge.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 16, 2021
Despite news of retail gloom, mall is adding and expanding stores

Unbowed by news of changing customer habits, International Plaza continues to add new retailers to already eclectic mix

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 5, 2021
Locally based restaurant chain debuts first international store

Tampa, Florida-based PDQ, via a deal with a Dubai-based investment firm, has opened a location in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 7, 2021
Pickleball anyone?

New pickleball club under construction in Lakewood Ranch looks to capitalize on craze.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2021
Area companies raise more than $100 million

Firms range from bioscience companies to a self-storage startup.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2021
Manufacturer moving corporate headquarters to area, bringing 200 jobs

Illinois-based Signode Industrial Group will move into the Hidden River Corporate Park in Tampa

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Gail E. Farb, Labor & Employment Attorney, Williams Parker |
  • April 30, 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act and How It Affects Employers

The American Rescue Plan Act and How It Affects Employers

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 10, 2021
Oak Street adds to regional Walgreens portfolio

Chicago investment firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital acquires handful of drugstores along Gulf Coast, its second foray into the retail net-lease sector in the region this year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 11, 2020
Firm sells multifamily complex for $24M — one month after $48M sale

One sale was in Collier County, the other in Manatee County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2020
Supply chain services firm offers free online courses

Fort Myers-based Allyn International has made four introductory supply chain training courses available to the public.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 26, 2019
Editor enters Hall of Fame

The Observer Media Group, based in Sarasota, is one of the largest family-owned and operated community media companies in Florida.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 1, 2022
90 days in, sales at 46-story St. Pete luxury tower top $150 million mark

Construction at 400 Central has just begun and sales team seeing interest locally and nationally

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2022
Nonprofit adds trio to business hall of fame

Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will celebrate the winners at a dinner in April.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2018
Rocket science: MarineMax fills a need for NASA

Clearwater, Florida-based boat retailer MarineMax lent the skills of members of its Houston-based service team to NASA for a project that will help astronauts someday explore reaches of space beyond the moon, including Mars.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 30, 2018
Shoppes at Sarasota Row owner selling complex

Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co., the owner since 2014 of the Whole Foods Market-anchored Shoppes at Sarasota Row, is planning to sell the fully leased complex as part of a shift in corporate strategy

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 14, 2018
Barron Collier Cos. CEO named to Consolidated-Tomoka board

Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. has tapped Barron Collier Cos. CEO Blake Gable to be a member of its board amid a corporate shift in strategy.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 20, 2019
MetLife to stay at Highwoods Preserve

MetLife has renewed its 176,000-square-foot lease in Highwoods Properties' Highwoods Preserve project in North Tampa, one of the largest office commitments in the region since early 2018.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2018
Condo builder fined for illegally filling wetlands

A proposed consent decree subject to a 30-day comment period and final court approval.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2018
Condo builder fined for illegally filling wetlands

A proposed consent decree subject to a 30-day comment period and final court approval.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2014
Rising cities sparse in some regions

A large geographic portion of the Gulf Coast — the parts south of the Skyway Bridge through Naples — came up flat in a report of Florida cities and towns on the rise.

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