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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 30, 2018
CRE market snapshot: Charlotte County attracts investor attention

A look at the county's office, industrial and retail markets

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 30, 2016
A bigger quest

ReliaQuest added nearly 100 new employees in 2016 and plans to hire up to 150 more in 2017. Top-notch training programs are paramount.

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  • By Elizabeth Morrisey |
  • March 3, 2017
Play ball

Baseball teams have been swapping spring training cites with greater frequency across Florida in recent years. But not in Lakeland.

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  • By Ted Carter |
  • October 6, 2017
Strands of Success

The rent-a-suite salon model trend has been building for a decade. One area couple, a new entry, sees room for growth.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 5, 2017
Dollars to Doughnuts

A former policeman — yes, really — leads the rapid growth at a doughnut franchise business. The recipe is one part simplicity, one part consistency.

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  • January 17, 2014
Corporate Report: Jan. 17

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 14, 2014
Top Gun

What's a British film producer doing buying a shooting range in the middle of the Florida swamp? Bloody good question.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 16, 2014
Coming to America

Felix Lluberes and Hong Long grew Position Logic without outside investors. Choosing the hard way to build the company paid off when they sold a majority stake to RacoWireless last year.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 13, 2016
Gulf Coast apartment growth to continue

The 2008 foreclosure crisis, an improved job market, population gains, increased household formations — especially among millennials aged 21 to 37 years old — have combined to make the multifamily sector along the Gulf Coast one of the hottest in the country in the aftermath of the economic recession of the last decade.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 13, 2015
Jackets required

Celebrities and executives seek out Dominic Lacquaniti's suits, preserving a craft that's disappearing.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 20, 2015
Trading titan

Mark Yegge retired at 40, but the serial entrepreneur couldn't stay idle for long.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • August 26, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Plant City multifamily complex sale for nearly $35 million paces transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 21, 2025
Sarasota condo project gets $208 million construction loan

The developers of One Park Sarasota received financing for construction of their 18-story condominium in The Quay.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • April 7, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

$16 million Polk County land sales pace transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • June 30, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

An $81 million multifamily complex sale in Lakewood Ranch leads the week in transactions.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 6, 2024
Naples condo listed for $32.5M, nearby house hits market for $29.5M

The $30 million-plus residential listing market has two new entries in Naples.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • September 9, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Hillsborough office sale, Pinellas multifamily sale — both over $30 million — lead the week in transactions.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • October 6, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $37 million Pinellas apartment community sale leads the week's transactions.

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  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • September 22, 2025
Manatee County commissioners end funding of Bradenton EDC

Other public and private sources remain intact, but commissioners question the value of the county's contribution, which is close to $350,000 a year.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 6, 2008
Coffee Talk

+ Riverside Bank feels regulator's pressureNow we know why a group of Brazilian investors is buying Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast for $1.+ The sweetscent of victoryWinning baseball dramatically helped the Tampa Bay Rays this year, but so did atmosphere.+ Something old, something new: Homebuilder survivesA combination of old land deals and new pricing strategies has resulted in an odd occurrence for Lakewood Ranch-based Neal Communities, one of the leading homebuilders in Sarasota and Manatee counties: The company has increased year-to-date sales over 2007. Even more surprising, it plans on making a profit this year. + Economy-based humorlingers, even as bank expandsGrim jokes about the struggling financial-service industry were flying fast and furious recently as Northern Trust broke ground on a new two-story building in Fort Myers. + Franchise company hits YouTube for marketing pushAttention plumbers, electricians and air conditioning repairmen - or fans of anyone in those hard-labor professions: Get ready to tap into your inner Steven Spielberg.+ Another familyfeud at Alico?It was only a few years ago that the heirs of Ben Hill Griffin Jr. settled their feud over the future of LaBelle-based agribusiness giant Alico.+ Capital runs short for a second bank turnaroundFederal and state regulators have shut down another effort to save a troubled Bradenton-based bank.Going green goes the world o

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