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  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • February 10, 2012
Making Small Look Big

When it comes down to the smart phone battle, Abdul Lateef doesn't care about whether you're an iPhone or Android. His machines help make both.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 15, 2016
Break through

The founders of Crown Roofing started a business with $75,000. Three years later $50 million in revenues is in its sights.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 10, 2014
Seismic shift

If disruptive innovation were easy, it wouldn't be disruptive or innovative. That's an acute challenge in some health care sectors.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 31, 2014
Open it up

Some recession-era lessons have started to pay off for a Gulf Coast business owner. A big one: Avoid the office on Mondays.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2015
Main Plaza/Hollywood 20 sells for $18.1 million

Investors plan to redevelop the landmark property.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 20, 2024
Two prime Fort Myers Beach properties listed for $17.5 million

The two parcels on Estero Boulevards Time Square are being sold together as the area continues to change post-Hurricane Ian.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 6, 2023
Popular steakhouse Seltzer's selling Pasco County restaurant

Harold Seltzer's Steakhouse has put its location on U.S. Hwy 19 in Port Richey on the market for $800,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Steven Benna |
  • April 20, 2026
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Neal Communities $25.6 million sale of south Sarasota multifamily community paces the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 6, 2026
Collier County resort sells for nearly $1 billion

The JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort was sold to an investment group that took out $690 million in financing.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 20, 2010
Humana Cares creating jobs

The St. Petersburg firm will hire 270 employees to help launch a new service.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2011
Fawley Bryant, Willis Smith hired for LECOM dental

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine has hired Fawley Bryant Architects to design the new the LECOM School of Dental Medicine building.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2011
Lee hit with Oct. foreclosures

Lee County saw 1,922 new foreclosure filings last month.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 17, 2011
Nuviva opens in Sarasota

Nuviva Medical Weight Loss opened a new clinic in Sarasota this week.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2012
Salad franchise hits Tampa Bay

Calvin and Felicia Rucker signed a three-store agreement with Saladworks.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 13, 2016
Education foundation names new board leadership

The new executive committee will take over for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 7, 2016
United Way names new chair and board members

The additions are part of a large shift for United Way's board.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2022
Drive-thru coffee chain expands to Sarasota

The news came after the brand signed a two-store contract.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 19, 2021
Builder begins work on $326M hospital, seeks minority-owned subcontractors

On Monday, ground was broken for the new South Florida Baptist Hospital, in Plant City, Florida, which will replace the existing 68-year-old facility.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 2, 2018
Sprouts expanding throughout the Gulf Coast

Sprouts Farmers Market plans to add a pair of new stores in Naples and Clearwater to expand its Gulf Coast portfolio

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 2, 2018
Tech company wins more than $60 million in new work

FTE Networks wins $61.4 million in new contracts, year-to-date total in new contracts $302 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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