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  • By Elizabeth Morrisey |
  • February 10, 2017
How to ... Recruit and retain millennials

Andy McEntire has some inside knowledge on how to hire and retain millennials — partially because he is one himself.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2017
Gulf Coast contractors expect further hiring in 2017

Firms expect to add jobs, but skilled labor is harder to find

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 18, 2017
Naples apartments sell for $67 million

Advenir Inc., an Aventura-based multifamily investment firm whose portfolio contains assets valued at $2.3 billion, has acquired the Aventine at Naples apartments for $67 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 1, 2017
Be cool

StratTech lands Gartner designation

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 2, 2017
Fast-growing firm gets new digs

Outgrowing its Sarasota location, Environmental Pest Services finds home in Tampa

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 30, 2017
Risk factor

The war on your data is real, cyber security firms says.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 7, 2017
The Kind That Binds

'Showing we care about those in the community brings business back.'

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 22, 2017
Brixmor adds Venice center to portfolio

Brixmor Property Group, a New York-based retail property owner that controls roughly a dozen Gulf Coast centers, has acquired a Sarasota County shopping center for $33.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2014
Northland Investment Corp. buys Bay Breeze apartments

Newton, Mass.-based real estate investment company Northland Investment Corp. purchased the 180-unit Bay Breeze apartments for $24.15 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2014
Taubman sells share of International Mall for $499 million

The real estate investment trust sold nearly half of the Tampa upscale retail center to a joint venture of TIAA-CREF and APG for $499 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 7, 2014
Retailer Taubman Centers Inc. sells 49% of International Plaza

The purchase price consists of $337 million in cash and $162 million of beneficial interest in debt.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 21, 2014
Williams Automotive Group buys Tampa Honda Land

Wesley Chapel's Williams Automotive Group purchased the property and business operations of Tampa Honda Land on Florida Avenue from an affiliate of Jacksonville-based Scott-McRae Group.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 7, 2014
Patient firm gets cooking

Executives at MenuPad have been unusually patient for the last three years.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 15, 2014
Health care survey garners boos

Some post-Affordable Care Act debut surveys have rolled out, and word from the business community isn't good.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 19, 2016
Colliers International snags Osprey listings, staffers

Ending months of speculation over the fate of Osprey S.A. Ltd.'s portfolio of more than a dozen office buildings in Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa, the Michigan-based firm has awarded listings to commercial real estate brokerage Colliers International Tampa Bay.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2016
Firm pays back county on failed incentives

Entrepreneur Scott Gerber made the last of six $9,333 payments July 31.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2016
Investors flip over home sales

Gulf Coast cities led the nation in the second quarter in home flips, according to a new report from Attom Data Solutions, the new parent company of real estate researcher RealtyTrac.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 29, 2016
Talk it up at conference

Toastmasters International, a nonprofit that helps people improve communication and leadership skills, will host a conference in Tampa from May 13 to May 15.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 19, 2016
Daymond John is more than a shark

Just before Shark Tank star and FUBU founder Daymond John emerged from the green room at Sarasota's Ritz-Carlton for his speech Feb. 15, the audience of 500 attendees was instructed: No flash photography, no videos, no recordings ... You know the routine of the big media celebs.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2016
Hungry for more clicks, and kicks

If some guy from Ohio can raise $55,000 online for a bowl of potato salad, then how about $100,000 for a couple who want to grow their bootstrapped Latin comfort food business?

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