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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: Aug. 20 - Aug. 26

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • February 15, 2013
Corporate Report: February 15

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2020
Celebrated entrepreneur behind $20M HVAC firm arrested for fraud

Louis Bruno founded the company in 2012.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 19, 2018
An $11 million historic hotel makeover delivers a dose of Zen

In a partnership with Tampa-based Mainsail Lodging and Development, the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA has renovated and restored the Fenway into an 83-room boutique hotel, with a focus on health and wellness packages. The hotel will be under the Marri

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • September 12, 2014
Oil Legacy

J.H. Williams Oil Co. has grown through three generations of the Williams family. Now the $394 million Tampa company is leveraging the fourth generation to stay on top.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 8, 2023
Sarasota restaurant property sells for $5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Port Charlotte resorts gets a new boss, a church hits the market in Lakeland and workforce apartments are coming to Naples.

  • Florida
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • August 26, 2025
DeSantis touts $1.3B investment in Tampa Bay transportation

Gov. Ron DeSantis praised a $1.3 billion investment in transportation infrastructure projects in the Tampa Bay region, funding the Howard Frankland Bridge and a major Pinellas County expansion of I-275.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 4, 2023
Father-daughter duo mix risk with stability at $220M beer business

Even after five decades in the beer and beverage business, John Saputo isn’t ready to walk away. If (when) he does, he’s confident the next generation is ready to run the company.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2007
Dollars for Cents

An inside look at how Sarasota governments conducted the sales tax extension campaign with a budget of only $41,900- a budget that did not include manhours.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2007
WCI bets on Bal Harbour

WCI Communities' executives fight to keep the company's cash coming in as they soothe anxious lenders who are owed $1.9 billion. Meanwhile, billionaire investor Carl Icahn and two hedge fund allies formed a majority on a newly created board to be elected Aug. 30.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 26, 2005
Debit Cards for the Sub-Prime

Morgan Beaumont has gone through $9 million in startup costs. Early next year, the real growth begins.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 23, 2005
Shaking Up the Industry

Steven Johnston says he's changing the real estate industry with a 2% commission business model. His competitors disagree.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 13, 2005
Nature Lover, Land Owner, Developer

Maurice Wilder, who started out as a mobile home salesman, has built a diverse $500 million portfolio over three decades.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2008
The Flower Guru

A Gulf Coast florist, known to dozens of florists nationwide as a "never ending machine of ideas," is competing against - and beating - industry heavyweights.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 23, 2009
The Cost to Drive

It seems there just is not enough money for roads in Florida. Government policies to promote less driving reduce gas tax revenues to pay for roadwork, and new federal legislation could also make it more difficult to create public private partnerships and build needed toll roads.

  • Florida
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 31, 2009
Pay Me Later

Florida's risky property insurance system relies on a patchwork of undercapitalized public and private insurance, suppressed rates, policy assessments, an unlikely national catastrophe plan, and the next weather report. It could add up to one big bankruptcy for all of us.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 26, 2004
Sold On Sarasota

After a development process that featured highs and lows, itis time to break ground on the condominium project at 1350 Main.

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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • October 8, 2010
Shhhhh... Sink was a Banker

In a normal election year, Alex Sink's run for governor of Florida would play heavily on her successful banking career with Bank of America. But this is no normal election.

  • Florida
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • September 10, 2010
Public Union Power Play

Government workers' unions are funneling record amounts of money to political campaigns — 92% of it to Democrats — in hopes of protecting pay and benefits.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 21, 2021
Exclusive: Related's Jon Paul Pérez talks market, the future and his new Ritz-Carlton branded tower

Prolific Miami developer Related Group has found a second home in Tampa, building both luxury and affordable housing.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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