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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 20, 2018
Starwood Capital completes $143 million Urban Centre deal

Sale likely to be among the largest office transactions in Tampa Bay in 2018

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • June 11, 2022
Record profits drive a surge of M&A activity among auto dealerships

Morgan Automotive Group’s revenue jumped from $3.22 billion in 2020 to $5.41 billion last year, up 68%.

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  • May 13, 2022
Survey: Small business confidence is high in the Sunshine State

Floridians are happy with the state's business climate.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 18, 2022
Bakery forced to adjust pricing recipe as inflation woes mount

The rising cost of essential ingredients cut into The Cake Girl's profit margins.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 28, 2022
On the heels of $4.6B sale, Clearwater cybersecurity firm launches training app

KnowBe4’s new app is meant to improve security awareness and compliance training for clients.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 8, 2022
Mortgage rates fall for fourth straight week

Freddie Mac says the news is not good but a sign of “lackluster economic growth.”

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 30, 2022
Report: More bad news for housing market as pending home sales fall — again

November data shows more signs that home sales continue to struggle nationwide.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Lee-Collier Runner-Up 2

Jerry Williams, Chairman, President and CEO, Orion Bancorp: Is there an entrepreneurial gene?If so, it's dominant in Jerry Williams' family. In Athens, Texas, Williams' father and grandfather created numerous successful ventures, from steel construction to auto-parts stores.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 25, 2010
Developer buys land for Freedom Harbor

Freedom Harbor LLC, a partnership of Rich Mozdzer, Debbie Reynolds, Dr. Frank Sirchia, former Austrian Olympic Pair Skater Michael Nemec and Jakub Pilecky, purchased a 123-acre former borrow pit with a 70-acre Lake on Bullfrog Creek Road near Big Bend Road for $3.5 million.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 6, 2011
Last one standing

Collier County was home to four of the largest banks on the Gulf Coast just a few years ago. TIB Bank is the lone survivor today.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 19, 2010
Goodwill executive helping Haiti

The Goodwill franchises on the Gulf Coast continue to foster reputations as doers in difficult times.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 11, 2011
TJM Properties buys Lodge at Mainlands

Clearwater-based TJM Properties purchased the 157-unit The Lodge at Mainlands assisted-living and memory-care facility for $3.55 million.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 27, 2011
Carpets and hospitals out, franchises in

Bob Hughston, formerly with Mohawk Carpets, and Jim Ayersman, previously with the HCA hospital chain, will take a chance on franchise-based entrepreneurship.

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  • January 17, 2013
W.P. Carey affiliate buys three self-storage facilities

The price equated to $111 per square foot or $11,111 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 8, 2013
Insignia Real Estate Cos.group buys Vanderbilt Shops floors

The price equated to $61 per square foot.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 11, 2011
Sarasota's Kimsey wages financing fight

Sarasota entrepreneur Rick Kimsey, with a goal to shoot a dose of Starbucks into the urgent care industry, is now Exhibit A in the lending tug-of-war between banks and small businesses.

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  • July 22, 2011
Publix redeveloping Longboat's Avenue of the Flowers

Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. revealed plans for the aging and mostly empty Avenue of the Flowers plaza on Longboat Key.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2011
Sarasota real estate investor wants more

Prominent Sarasota real estate investor and developer Henry Rodriguez wisely began to sell off the bulk of his holdings in 2005 and 2006. Now he wants to get back into the market.

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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • September 6, 2013
This Week in Biz: September 6

Would you rather get fired or sit in a room and read a newspaper all day while getting paid? That answer might seem obvious... But that's what happens in Japan where it's taboo to fire an employee; lifetime employment is the norm. So, unwanted employees sit in “chasing-out rooms,” which are meant to get the employee to quit. Apparently, this practice could be bad for a company/the economy, but could be good culturally. Just think of all the unemployed recent grads in the U.S. that wish they got paid to sit and play on the computer... oh cultural differences. [New York Times]

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  • November 16, 2012
Goodwill Industries Southwest Florida buys new headquarters

The price equated to $16 per square foot.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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