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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 31, 2024
New Margaritaville resort on Fort Myers Beach opens beach club

The resort on Fort Myers Beach has just opened the 15,000-square-foot Fins Up! Beach Club for guests and nonguests.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 8, 2024
New tenants coming to north Manatee shopping center

Market Walk in Parrish will contain restaurants as well as beauty, fitness and pet offerings.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 8, 2024
Hospital group offers free virtual health care during Milton

AdventHealth will open up its app-based video urgent care at no cost during the storm.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 13, 2025
Naples residential project tops $500 million in sales

About 80% of the units at Ritz-Carlton Residences in Naples have sold.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 6, 2008
Power Pack

It took 20 years, but Alan Rash finally got his shot at runninghis own foam fabrication business. He's turned an unorthodoxapproach into a success story.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • February 21, 2020
We can verify this: E-Verify is not a fix

Leave us alone. Let us do what we do in peace.

  • Opinion
  • By Denise Kalette |
  • April 12, 2013
Growing with gusto

Bill McGill is piloting MarineMax's recovery from the recession. Sales are up, and new buyers are testing the waters.

  • Strategies
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 25, 2020
Top Deals: Tampa Bay

Despite COVID-19, apartment sales once again dominated the Tampa Bay region over the past year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 29, 2019
New private club seeks to be hub for business leaders

Waterworks is a business and social club that combines new with old in Sarasota.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2006
Coaster Ride

With a dozen new branch openings in the last two years - but three CEOs over six years - Coast Bank executives hope their story becomes one of successful growth, not management turmoil.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 7, 2007
Island Fever

A group of influential Naples investors is buying a small bank in Marco Island that it will use to expand into the rest of Southwest Florida. Recent bad loans won't scuttle the deal.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2003
Historic Conquests

Tampa developer Hamilton Jones discovered a lucrative niche in the Tampa Bay market - redevelopmentof historic commercial and residential properties.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 12, 2010
No Rest

The recession hasn't sent Adam DeClerico into a spiral. He has instead used the downturn to tinker with his dizzying array of businesses.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 9, 2022
Former top Navy official: never let your values sink

Thomas Modly reflects back on some missteps while also maintaining his core leadership beliefs, like the power of redemption.

  • Advice
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 4, 2019
Plant a flag: Venerable East Coast law firm charts a course for Gulf growth

Not content to bank on its legacy and pedigree, Gunster embraces a strategy of rapid expansion. Will its cerebral approach to messaging help it win the war for young legal talent?

  • Law
  • By Laura Lyon |
  • June 5, 2025
Tampa General, combining tech and high-touch care, leads US in organ transplants

Technology is bringing the normally high costs of transplants down, which has allowed TGH's large transplant team to do more of them.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • October 27, 2022
6 ways to wow customers and perspective customers with webinars

Don’t fear the webinar: By packing the punch with a thoughtful strategy and engaging content, it can really sizzle.

  • Advice
  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • December 16, 2020
Entrepreneurial couple starts, grows food business amid pandemic

With years of industry experience to guide them, a think-big couple aims to grab a large bite of the food products industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • August 10, 2018
Software firm finds success in a super-early entry to a hot market

Some 30,000 customers in 140 countries use Market Technologies software to inform their investment and business decisions. The firm posted $7.56 million in revenue in 2016, $7.76 million in 2017, and is on track to hit $8 million for 2018.

  • Strategies
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 24, 2023
Historic Fort Myers Beach property sells to developer for $52 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, doctors buy a car dealership, a top realtor is moving, and more apartments are coming.

  • Florida
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