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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • July 5, 2024
South Carolina hospitality group brings pair of restaurants to Tampa

Two new restaurants are slated to begin serving in 2024 and 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2023
Six months after Ian, furniture store destroyed in storm reopens

The floods and devastation left by Ian pushed the partners, and some employees, of Badcock Home Furniture & more to the brink. But a sense of normalcy is creeping back.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2012
Homebuilder's sales surge 305%

Neal Communities, after a stellar August, is now up 49% in sales over 2011.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 29, 2016
We seek the best of the best

Do you know a bright and successful leader in the business community?

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 27, 2010
Boom-Time Caution

Cape Coral was one of the hardest-hit areas of the Gulf Coast, but one commercial builder based in Lee County's largest city survives. Compass Construction holds lessons for others in these tough times.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2010
Maddux: Digital pub wasn't solution

A combination of dwindling advertising revenue and decreasing demand for print magazines forced the ultimate decision to fold the Maddux Business Report.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2014
Pirates hammer new attendance records

Team drew more than 90,000 fans for a dozen home games.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 3, 2025
Goodwill Manasota opens new donation center in Lakewood Ranch

The Goodwill donation center is in a “prime position,” according to the nonprofit’s senior director of real estate.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 18, 2023
St. Petersburg native leads Swedish builder's parks projects

Chuck Jablon, who grew up in St. Petersburg, sees building parks for Skanska USA's Tampa office as a way to give back to the community and to leave his stamp on Tampa Bay.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 14, 2011
Odyssey lands $2 million deal

Clients of Robert Fraser & Partners agreed to pay $2 million in up-front cash.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • January 1, 2025
PNC plans for surge of new branches, despite industry's digital push

Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank has high hopes for the Tampa Bay and Florida market in 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • May 27, 2021
With a Twist

Entrepreneurs, in resurrecting old board game, find new ways to reach customers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 5, 2018
Word for 2018: '20-Great-teen!

Despite the World of Trump, we can continue to turn the tide with our own decorum and the push for economic freedom.

  • Opinion
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 20, 2024
High-tech Naples dry cleaning business presses forward on a big year

Platinum Dry Cleaners ends 2024 with some global recognition.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2016
Attorney to ump Super Bowl

Millions of football fans will tune in to the Super Bowl Feb. 7, when Fort Myers residents will see a familiar face on the field.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 9, 2023
AI-generated content creation hub secures $4.2 million in seed funding

St. Petersburg-based Optiversal blazes the way for AI-based platforms to be human-forward.

  • Technology
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 30, 2020
Movin' On Up

Latest “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” report from the Urban Land Institute and PwC ranks Tampa/St. Petersburg as the sixth most attractive area in the U.S. based on job growth and development.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 27, 2022
Publix, Walmart, others closing stores, cutting hours as storm nears

The area’s two largest grocers are closing nearly 330 locations between them as Hurricane Ian gets close to landfall. More closings are likely to follow.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 21, 2010
The Write Stuff

The art of getting stories printed in newspapers and magazines has long confounded many small business owners and entrepreneurs. Ron Smith is trying to turn it into a science.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 2, 2021
Region posts stellar monthly tourism numbers, besting 2020 and 2019

Collier County officials believe the region ‘has turned the corner.’

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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