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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 29, 2022
Tech firm that helps companies expand overseas lands $14M investment

Tampa-based HSP Group’s Series B round was led by ABS Capital.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 8, 2016
Florida legal climate feels hellish

Florida gets no love from the American Tort Reform Foundation's latest Judicial Hellhole report.

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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • June 19, 2024
Tampa Bay restaurant firm brings new concept to Pinellas golf club

The Feinstein Group, a hospitality company that owns several restaurants in the Tampa Bay area, is bringing its latest concept to the Dunedin Golf Club.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 18, 2011
What's Your Score?

People crave an edge in the vast and vastly competitive world of online profiles. A new website aims to deliver just that.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 23, 2024
North Port business growth sparks entrepreneurship events

Networking takes off in North Port, which is seeing an influx of new businesses.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • February 27, 2024
Bill mandating county commissioner term limits advances in Florida

A Florida Senate bill aimed at limiting terms of county commissioners has made it past a key committee.

  • Florida
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 8, 2024
Visits to Sarasota County trend down in May year over year

The May 2024 visitor data shows a slight increase in cost of lodging but overall decreases in terms of visitors, occupancy and expenditures.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2014
Corporate Report

Two Beasley Broadcast execs named to Radio Ink's “Most Influential” list; Digital Observer Media handling digital marketing for Seminole Pride Noble; Food Services Insurance Managers hires Tropics Software Technologies; Discount Coupons Corp. buying San Diego daily deal site

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2009
Rooms To Go buys Darby, plans store

Seffner-based furniture retailer Rooms To Go Inc. purchased the former Darby Automotive dealership on Tamiami Trail south of Phillippi Street for $6.75 million. The purchase price equated to $1.38 million per acre.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 11, 2022
Tampa apartment complex refinanced for nearly $80 million

The owners of the Hamilton Point on Egypt Lake apartments have refinanced about a year after buying the property and renovating it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 1, 2014
Real estate broker gets wide audience

Sarasota residential real estate broker John Wilcher recently got a taste of how to sell properties TV style when he filmed a guest appearance on Million Dollar Listing New York.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 10, 2024
Palm Beach investor pays $10.5 million for Naples 7-Eleven

In the week's top commercial real estate news, apartment land is for sale in Sarasota, legendary steakhouse is on the market in Pasco, and a new hotel is coming to Bonita Springs.

  • Florida
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 8, 2019
Sarasota's Main Plaza sells for $20 million

Belpointe REIT Inc., of Greenwich, Conn., has purchased Sarasota's Main Plaza for $20 milion and plans a series of new apartments and offices on the 8.5-acre, downtown site.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 19, 2026
Fort Myers Beach cottages being rebuilt, will start at $2.6M

Construction has begun on the site of the Cottages of Paradise Point. The new homes will meet new resiliency standards and will be sold rather than rented.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 10, 2025
English finance firm closing Tampa office, laying off 307

Wise U.S. says the job cuts are permanent and will start in April.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 25, 2010
Minto buys into Sun City Center

Tampa-based Minto Communities could build up to 1,000 additional home sites.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 27, 2017
Massage chain targets more Florida growth

MassageLuxe added a new location in Naples.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 15, 2017
Giant community busts through major sales milestone

Lakewood Ranch was founded in 1995.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2018
Engines and eats

Get a side of delicious from a classically trained chef when you buy that car.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 22, 2015
Phony makeup seller gets 18 months in prison

Tina Oleszczuk pleaded guilty last September to selling nearly $1 million worth of counterfeit makeup products.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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