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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2007
Software Spartans

With fresh capital in place, Persystent Technologies, a Tampa-based business software company, unveils its latest product that relentlessly battles PC problems.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Law firms come throughAll in the familyCritic says job picture betterSecond time is a charmBlue sky for bankersJudicial nominees

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 25, 2020
Full-court press: Stymied entrepreneurs continue to pursue redevelopment project

After a several iterations, a plan for a revamped Sarasota Bath and Racquet Fitness Club remains in limbo. The property owners are giving it one more go.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 30, 2018
Developer builds centers of attention

Retail center developer S.J. Collins seeks to enhance communities with purposeful design and mix of tenants. Daniels Marketplace in Fort Myers is its latest example.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 29, 2025
Sarasota golf course acquired, new management company hired

Serenoa Golf Club marks the entry into Florida for golf course management company Pinnacle Golf Properties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 10, 2018
Casto Southeast Realty Services in a sweet spot with plethora of projects

Casto Southeast Realty Services has differentiated itself through mixed-use commercial real estate projects that require expertise in places like Tampa, Lakewood Ranch, Sarasota, Daytona, Clemson, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • February 11, 2011
Government Digest: Feb. 11

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2018
Medical marijuana firm keeps on rolling with $35.4 million in financing

Sarasota-based AltMed was recently approved to open a medical cannabis dispensary in Sarasota County.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Steven Kossoff | Meridian Development Group, Tampa

Some people doubted Steve Kossoff and his then 5-year-old company, Meridian Development Group, could pull off the Winn Dixie challenge in 2006.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 22, 2024
Tampa-area journalist and PR professional Nancy Howe dies

Nancy Howe, a prominent local journalist and business owner who for years published Tampa Bay Newswire and owned the communications company KnowHowe, has died. She was 73.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2023
Prominent Venice manufacturer rebrands

The rebranding at PGT Innovations included a new logo and slogan.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • November 2, 2022
Inaugural flight brings in over 90 passengers to Sarasota

Breeze Airways, which debuted at SRQ earlier this year, celebrated the new flight from New York with a Champagne christening and water cannon salute.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2020
College president announces retirement

New College will create a search committee to help select O’Shea’s replacement and hire a search firm to lead the recruiting process.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 13, 2022
Tampa General partners with medical group on new psychiatric hospital

The partnership with Kindred on the new hospital is the medical group's second.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 3, 2015
Letter to the editor

New code costs deserved in-depth look

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 13, 2025
$1.1 billion project breaks ground at Fort Myers airport

The addition of Concourse E comes amid an increasing number of passengers at RSW.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 4, 2024
Trust company triples space on Main Street in Sarasota

Canandaigua National Trust Company of Florida is expanding as its book of business grows.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2007
Coffee Talk

A Bridge to Celebration: Rob Morris is one happy developer these days: The project he dreamed of three years ago - a $3.5 million bridge that will serve as an entrance to his firm's Sarasota condo project along the Phillippi River - is officially completed. And better yet, it came in early and under budget.Icahn hedge funds lose on WCI bet: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn's bet on WCI Communities led to the first quarterly decline of his hedge funds since they opened three years ago, Bloomberg reported recently.Standing in defiance of the market: On Nov. 7, elected officials, Pinellas County staff, and The Sembler Co. leadership grabbed shovels and broke ground for Sembler's first standalone residential community called Duval Park, a new traditional neighborhood in the heart of Pinellas County in Lealman.Bonds show WCI's odds of survival: Bond prices are always a good indicator of corporate health.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 17, 2006
Corporate Report

Look at briefs from Gulf Coast businesses for free.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2004
Wal-Mart's Mexico Success

Mexico's largest private employer - Wal-Mart - is given credit for reducing the country's inflation rate. Its rivals are unhappy.

  • Entrepreneurs
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