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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 8, 2011
Odyssey could raise $16M

The Tampa-based ocean exploration firm will issue 4 million shares of stock.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 27, 2011
Community posts record profits

Community Bank & Co. earned $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2011.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 13, 2012
Chico's increases dividend

Chico's FAS' June dividend is 5% higher than the one it paid in June 2011.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 8, 2012
Radiation Therapy posts loss

Radiation Therapy recorded a $121.6 million goodwill impairment charge in Q4.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 28, 2016
Florida cities dominate in-migration list

Florida cities dominate a national list of metro areas where people are moving, a sign that the commercial real estate industry's current runway may have significant room left.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 1, 2017
Former hospital site hits market for $10 million

A portion of the former Doctors Hospital site in Sarasota has come on the market for $10 million, one of the largest Gulf Coast listings currently in the CoStar Group's online database.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 5, 2018
Carter Validus sheds portfolio for $750 million

Tampa-based Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT Inc. has sold a portfolio of 14 data center properties to a pair of Singapore-based real estate investment firms for $750 million, the company announced late last year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Massachusetts investor buys Beach Unlimited building for $2 million

The price equated to $494 per square foot.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 5, 2014
Insurance scam nets 14 arrests

State officials uncover multimillion-dollar scam to defraud insurance companies.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2016
Hiring remains bright

The employment outlook for the Gulf Coast and the state remains bright despite concerns about the slowing global economy, according to a survey of second-quarter hiring by labor firm Manpower.

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  • June 26, 2015
Quarterly profits rise - at some firms

The largest public companies on the Gulf Coast reported a lot of profit in the first quarter, $660 million. But that was more than a 12% drop from the first quarter of 2014.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • February 21, 2020
Area entrepreneur creates business with handcrafted bow ties

Travis Ray runs The Dapper Bowtique.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 8, 2023
Developer gets $26 million in financing for Tampa cold storage project

Two hotels changing hands and an apartment complex selling top the week's commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 24, 2021
Accountant arrested in murder-for-hire scheme

Tampa accountant charged with trying to hire a hitman on the Dark web and pay for the murder with Bitcoin.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 26, 2025
Dunedin food hall up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a retail and residential building is on the market in Sarasota, a St. Pete Beach hotel reopens, and a Fort Myers office building sells.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 29, 2023
Grocery stores close ahead of Hurricane Idalia's arrival

Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie and Aldi all have stores closing early.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 22, 2021
Investor buys distribution center for nearly $50 million

Lexington Realty Trust has added to its statewide portfolio with a property in Plant City developed by Wharton Industrial and Red Rock Developments last year.

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  • August 3, 2021
Tampa apartments sell for $65 million

Off-market deal by ZMR Capital for Hanley Place the latest in a wave of transactions aimed at capitalizing on region’s stellar economy

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Jennifer M. Fowler | Board Certified Labor and Employment Attorney |
  • January 2, 2024
Budgeting Employee Pay for 2024

Businesses should keep in mind recent and upcoming minimum wage increases.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 4, 2025
More St. Pete layoffs after Trump administration cuts youth jobs program

The U.S. Department of Labor has paused Job Corps centers operations nationally leading to the shuttering of a St. Petersburg center and the layoffs.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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