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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
'Place to Be'

A condo glut doesn't deter EcoGroup's principal from building New Port Tampa Bay - a luxury waterfront community where the land alone cost $74 million.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 2, 2007
Focus on Fuel

A national power company chief executive - whose livelihood depends on more energy usage - publicly supports power conservation.

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  • December 7, 2007
Gulf Coast Week

Redevelopment is key: Most attention has been focused on the plan for a waterfront ballpark for the Tampa Bay Rays, topped with a soaring sail strung from a 320-foot-tall mast.Distributor to expand: A Miramar-based liquor distributor plans to add as many as 550 employees and build a huge warehouse facility in south Hillsborough County.Class action suit proceeds: The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has certified a landowner-government dispute in Sarasota County as a class action case open to all property owners in the effected areas.First Banks enters Florida: St. Louis-based First Banks, one of the largest privately held bank holding companies in the country, is officially entering Florida, and specifically the Gulf Coast, at a bargain price.I-75 widening debate: Lee and Collier county commissioners will decide by January whether to agree to toll the two new lanes that will be built by the state on Intestate 75 in the next several years.November permits plunge: Residential homebuilding permits fell 83% in November from the same month a year ago in Lee County. Lee County's community development department issued 60 residential permits in November compared to 357 in November 2006.

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  • June 1, 2007
Runner Up - Lee/Collier

Rick CollinsDuane Swanson Sr.Scott Fischer

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  • December 31, 2007
The Genius of Cape Coral

A Southwest Florida man came up with an ingenious device to make an oil change less messy. Then a competitor almost sidelined him.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2008
Brokered Loyalty

CLW Real Estate Services Group in Tampa pledges to spend most of its time helping existing clients to grow rather than mining for new ones.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 9, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

'Shark Tank' goes after feds: Fishermen, from the Panhandle to Naples, are rallying against a rule that reduces the daily red grouper bag limit from two to one and calls for a complete ban of recreational fishing of all grouper in the Gulf of Mexico in November and December.Condoflip.com coming: It's no secret that "flippers" are driving much of the boom in condominium development.Are we still cheap?: Housing costs, including condos, have gone up along the Gulf Coast. But we're still comparatively cheap, up against the swells down in South Florida.Investment opportunity: Condo investors might want to call Jeff Keierleber, a real estate developer in Waukesha, Wis.RBC Centura moving: RBC Centura Banks Inc. is moving its North Carolina headquarters from suburban Raleigh to the state capital, another sign the Royal Bank of Canada's American banking subsidiary probably isn't for sale.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 9, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana)

Condoflip.com to roll out its online service in west Florida: It's no secret that "flippers" are driving much of the boom in condo development.Kleiber's in: It's official. Commercial real estate broker Jon Kleiber filed papers in Tallahassee to run as a Republican for the District 70 state representative seat.As the eagle flies: Was John Saputo so sick of traffic congestion he planned to commute by helicopter to his Gold Coast Eagle Distributing's Lakewood Ranch headquarters?Better to lease or to own?: Left out of the announcement that Buchanan Enterprises/Buchanan Automotive Group are buying the ninth floor of the Plaza at Five Points was the floor's former contracted buyer.'Shark Tank' goes after feds: Fishermen, from the Panhandle to Naples, are rallying against the rule that reduces the daily red grouper bag limit from two to one and calls for a complete ban of recreational fishing of all grouper in the Gulf of Mexico in November and December.Developers shop for shoppers: With Westport, Conn.-based Paragon Realty Group LLC's purchase of the 259,000-square-foot Main Plaza, it is becoming quickly apparent that downtown Sarasota is gaining new recognition from developers as a retail destination.

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  • February 20, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: The Ruben/Vogler split: What really happenedStanley Appel looks for rhythm and identitySt. Armands Circle hires a consultantErik Vonk, chairman and CEO of Bradenton-based Gevity HR, delivers what he promised Wall Stree

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  • April 2, 2004
Campaign Conduct

A proposed watchdog committee would put the actions of Hillsborough judicial candidates under closer scrutiny.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 15, 2005
Taming the Trail

Bradenton consultants push a project and development incentives as the best and quickest method to rejuvenate the sagging 14th Street corridor.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 12, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

'A simple man': Associates of Al Pina have contacted the Gulf Coast Business Review at his request to vouch for the minority activist.All things must pass: Tampa commercial real estate broker Kyle Burd recently told his boss the news he didn't want hear.Pity underpaid bank CEOs: Really, Coffee Talk writes that headline with all sincerity.The little firm that can: Lawyers Jon Tileston and Brent Simon took on the Florida Department of Transportation and won $7 million - more than twice what state officials had offered to pay for the taking of nearly 2 acres on the Courtney Campbell Causeway that had housed Scarletts, a topless cabaret, and B.J.'s restaurant.JQC rebuffs Holder: The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission says Hillsborough Circuit Judge Greg Holder is not entitled to legal fees of about $1.8 million because its failed prosecution against him wasn't related to his job as judge.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 24, 2006
Pay Dirt

The rapid growth at Metro Development Group - from $80 million in revenues to $200 million in one year - proves there's big time money buried in the Florida dirt. Digging it out takes a team of engineers who come up with creative ways for builders to use the land.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 7, 2006
Startup Grows Up

After a few years in an incubator, two of Startup Florida's baby companies are nearing the break-even point. The next phase: profit or bust.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 12, 2006
Blown Away

Sales at a Florida roofing supply company were robust before 2004. They've gone wild after two active hurricane seasons.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 14, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana)

Economist talks down real estate: Real estate probably has had its run and will slow nationally, says David Jones, chairman of Investors' Security Trust Co. in Fort Myers.Put the students to work: With construction material costs skyrocketing the group working to development the new Manatee Technical Institute campus east of Interstate 75 has a heavy budget deficit to fill.Quite possibly a big deal: Crescent Brookdale Associates LLC has assigned its ground leases in Tampa's Corporate Center at International Plaza Westshore to a European investment trust.Real estate supply jumps in Sarasota, Manatee: The number of active listings for condominiums and single-family homes in Sarasota and Manatee counties has soared over the summer.Couldn't stay away: It took only a matter of months for FNB Corp. to decide that the slow-growth Northeast maybe isn't where its entire future lies.

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  • May 20, 2005
Entrepreneur Runner-Up: Jim Abrams

The founder and CEO of VenVest Inc. was one of this year's runner-ups for Entrepreneur of the Year.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 22, 2008
The Pool Zapper

It's hard to persuade people their backyard pools are germ buckets. Entrepreneur Jon Lalibertesays he's got a better way to kill the toughest germs using ultraviolet light.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 30, 2008
Senior Market

Allen McMurtry sells senior housing developments across the country and says demographic changes favor this industry.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2008
Dollar Flood

Recession's grip induces the United States to flood the world with even more dollars.

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