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  • By Jay Heater |
  • January 21, 2024
Big year ahead for $132M aquarium project in Sarasota County corridor

The project, shaped like a seaworthy ship, nears final stages of construction.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 1, 2023
Entrepreneurs target $2M+ home services market with new firm

Franchised-focused founders seek to fill what they believe is a big gap in the luxury home services market. White gloves optional.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 10, 2022
National homebuilder creates own labor pool — starting in Sarasota

A $7.5 billion-dollar builder goes internal to address superintendent recruiting and retention challenges.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 16, 2007
Customers at the Pinnacle

A four-office doctor's practice is bluntly going about improving customer service, normally a black eye in the medical field. Its model is a certain five-star hotel chain.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 8, 2007
Matt Walsh: The road to ruin: Letting FDOT build our highways

While Gov. Charlie Crist (our favorite shooting target) is traveling to the Middle East to continue laying the foundation for his run at the Republican vice presidential nomination and, after that, the presidency (don't laugh), Southwest Florida's transportation needs on Interstate 75 from Tampa Bay to Collier County are a prima facie example of how and why all road building and the government transportation departments should be abolished and privatized.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 12, 2004
Next Round: The Founders Club

After five years of designing and county review, The Founders Club is out of the ground. It's one of three ultra-pricey golf clubs opening out east.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 12, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Marian McCulloch, president of the Hillsborough County Bar Association, makes gutsy gay marriage commentaryFMA's fee amendment goes to courtPublic Defender Bob Dillinger's use of a poem insightful

  • News
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 5, 2009
Walsh: Review and Comment

A wish list to reverse economic trend lines

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 22, 2004
FCCI's Pilot

Russell Currin Jr., the Sarasota-based insurance companyis longtime chairman, is honored posthumously by The Argus Foundation with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Clearwater Bar Association just earned the single largest rebate, $19,830, in the programis recent historyBank spars with analystFire intensifiesMr./Mrs. Clearwater

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 5, 2003
Multifamily Bonanza

Demand from young professionals for urban living accounts for a wave of development that could dump more than 1,200 condo units on the downtown Tampa market over the next 18 months.

  • Opinion
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • July 8, 2021
Music Man

Top attorney for a busy real estate development and construction firm shakes off the blues, and stresses, of work in picking up a violin.

  • Executive Diversions
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • July 29, 2021
Army veteran focused on planned growth moves company into 20,000 square foot building

Army veteran Mike Guidoboni, with an investment that long surpassed $1 million, has big ideas for how a his manufacturing firm can grow.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 7, 2021
Sean Altice, 31

Leaving behind the bright lights of Hollywood, entrepreneur Sean Altice returned home to Sarasota, Florida, and started a travel company with his mother.

  • Class of 2021
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 19, 2021
Good crisis management key for major construction firm amid pandemic

One of the region’s biggest builders, Suffolk, learned a big lesson early in the pandemic: speed, backed by committed leadership, was essential.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 23, 2020
CRE defaults loom in a post-COVID-19 Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay banks are bracing for a wave of foreclosures in 2021, but industrial development continues to be a bright spot for the region

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 11, 2020
Credit union makes small — but mighty — acquisition

Pinellas County-based Achieva Credit Union targets growth across the bay.

  • Finance
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 28, 2020
A post-COVID World

Developers like Bromley Cos., the master developer of Midtown Tampa, and architects are implementing various measures to enhance wellness and safety in buildings in design or under construction now.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 15, 2020
Ali St Cyr, 32

Broker/co-owner, Tomlin St Cyr Real Estate Services

  • Class of 2020
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2020
Former business group leader, mayor dies at 73

Kerry Kirschner’s decades-long career bridged the public and private sectors. His role as a dad also defined his life.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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