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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 2, 2021
Local rents continue to rise

Rents in St. Pete and Tampa among the fastest growing in the nation.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 27, 2020
Hotel offers up retail therapy for beleaguered merchants

Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa is making its 784-square-foot Chartroom East and 952-square-foot Chartroom West available on a month-to-month basis for local retailers and vendors whose operations have been hampered by the pandemic.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 13, 2019
Report names Florida No. 2 state for startups

The Sunshine State had the most new business applications nationally.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 28, 2022
President of drug company indicted for accepting more than $450,000 in bribes from supplier

Feds allege Thomas Mollick of Tampa told supplier it had to pay kickback to do business.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2022
Builder sells out of 25 homes in million-dollar plus Sarasota neighborhood

The green development was targeted specifically for those relocating to the area.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 21, 2019
Area tech firm bolsters executive team with e-commerce veteran

Fintech, a Tampa, Florida-based business solutions provider for the beverage alcohol industry, has named Dan Gaertner chief technology officer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 26, 2018
Florida business grades: Good, but room for improvement

The Sunshine State was ranked the No. 10 best state to do business score in in a recent 10-category survey compiled by CNBC Global, the CFO Council and the Young Presidents Organization.

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  • September 6, 2018
Machinery firm brings HQ, jobs to region

A large manufacturer of CNC wire bending machines plans to invest $4 million in a new Hillsborough County headquarters facility and hire 45 local workers. Automated Industrial Machinery Inc. will move to Tampa from Illinois.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 19, 2018
High-end home sales surge

Pending sales in Naples are up 39% in the $2 million and over price category.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 25, 2022
Hospitality company acquires another hotel in Sarasota

The move was by design as the president of Kolter Hospitality expressed bullish feelings regarding the area's market for travel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 15, 2017
BTI sells another tract in Marina District

BTI Partners has notched yet another major sale within its Westshore Marina District project, bringing to 32 the number of acres sold or committed this year within the 54-acre project in South Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Lee standouts

We're No. 3, No. 7 and No.15 in national survey.

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  • July 7, 2017
Home is where the art is

Floridians really love their art.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 19, 2018
Sarasota industrial inventory tightening

United Natural Foods Inc. took down an additional 40,038 square feet in Sarasota's Independent Business Center last fall, expanding on the 90,000 square feet it already had in the same park space the food distributor maintains in the massive Meridian Distribution Center off Clark Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • January 19, 2018
Scissor sense

Apartment 12 Hair Studio just keeps growing.

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  • August 29, 2014
Consumer confidence climbs

The International Council of Shopping Centers Florida Conference, which began Aug. 25, got off to a sunny start, particularly in retail commercial real estate.

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  • March 14, 2014
Tampa Honda Land sold

The Williams Automotive Group plans to rename the former Scott-McRae Group dealership, Tampa Honda.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 27, 2014
Buff times for real estate agent

Go naked or go home.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2013
List it and they will come

If Snapchat can create a product without a business plan or revenues and get a buyout offer for $3 billion, maybe others can do the same.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 30, 2014
Former Sarasota Jackson Hewitt exec counts new gig

Danamichele Brennen oversaw a Jackson Hewitt call center from 2007 to 2011.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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