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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 11, 2024
New York firm buys 246 Tampa condos, borrowing $32 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, $110 million for car dealerships in Lee County, $9.9 million for a shopping center in Pasco County and $2.7 million for a school in Manatee County.

  • Florida
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • February 5, 2025
Tampa liquor store chain grows revenue 25%, store count 50%

Liquor Depot owner Trey Lawson keeps tabs on trends and tastes. He also has found a just-right recipe for turning social media posts into brick-and-mortar store foot traffic.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 11, 2024
Tampa Bay Rays make a last stand, with future now up to St. Pete City Council

As St. Petersburg's governing body takes up a $6 billion team-led redevelopment with a stadium, the Rays president says a move — out of Tampa Bay — remains possible without an agreement.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • October 12, 2023
Buddy Hornbeck Jr., 35

An insurance executive uses the "bust your butt" mantra to build a successful career.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 12, 2023
Jordan Hallam, 38

A banker who didn't think he'd be a banker now relishes opportunity to provide businesses with capital.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 19, 2025
Restaurant group disputes claims in lawsuit filed by famed Doc Ford author

Randy Wayne White says in court papers that Fort Myers' HM Restaurant Group violated an agreement that allowed it to operate eateries bearing his literary character’s name.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 24, 2024
Naples golf club for sale, 'best and final offers' encouraged

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Port Charlotte apartments sell for $66.5 million, and an experimental Tampa redevelopment gets a new leasing agent.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 11, 2024
Once-booming Big Storm Brewing faces eviction, lawsuit and closures

The Clearwater-based brewer and distiller, which has shut three of its five taprooms in a year, is facing off against a disgruntled investor as second landlord in a year says the company didn’t pay rent.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • September 16, 2024
The secret to a long-running private clinical research firm? Lead with your gut.

Clinical Research of West Florida is acing every test in its business.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • October 10, 2024
Dan Sidler, 38

40 Under 40 winner Dan Sidler is vice president, CareerEdge and Economic Development, at The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.

  • Class of 2024
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 23, 2024
Polk County education exec links employers, job seekers

Naomi Boyer is focused on how to change the way the world looks at skills.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 28, 2025
First Watch exec dishes on how the company maintains top-tier culture

Karen Sainsbury emphasizes that to have great company culture, the words need to be lived, not just printed and taped to a wall.

  • Leadership
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • January 5, 2026
Marketing executive caught the bug for collecting vintage Volkswagens

When she’s not running Pinstripe Marketing & Interactive, Ginger Galloway is likely driving around town in one of her three beloved vintage Volkswagen cars.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 3, 2007
10 for 20

Editor's note: While we at Gulf Coast Business Review are celebrating our 10th anniversary, we won't spend much time dwelling on yesterday. We've already told you what happened the past decade. We are a forward looking bunch. So we asked 10 major forces on the Gulf Coast to step into the future and tell us what the region will look like in 10 years, for the Review's 20th anniversary.Steve Knopik, William S. Dalton, Syd Kitson, Dr. Kiran C. Patel, Rex Jensen, Jerry Maxwell, Thomas S. Monaghan, Randy Benderson, Judy Genshaft, Ph.D., Trudi Williams

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 23, 2007
Corporate Report

Jim Walter joins gas-reductions groupWorld Energy Solutions, Rajax trading lawsuitsSource Interlink reaches deal with Thomas NelsonRadiation Therapy Services buys second Arizona facilityMangrove Software buys BenefitOne of America

  • Industries
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 7, 2006
Coffee Talk

A good morning to you: Contractors, plumbers and anyone else working on construction sites in Sarasota County might be in for a surprise with their morning coffee: a building inspector.Cleveland Clinic land in limbo: Now that the Cleveland Clinic has sold its Naples hospital to Health Management Associates, what is it going to do with land it owns in adjacent Lee County?Dogged effort: Last November, the Review reported land agent Bill Eshenbaugh's somewhat unusual approach to selling a 450-acre development site in rural Pasco County.Floridaboom: Pity Tallahassee. While it's 1.6% job growth rate over one year and 2.8% over five years is respectable for any state capital, it's pretty paltry when compared to just about every other Florida region.Community banks, thrifts disappoint: A flat yield curve and intense competition for commercial and industrial loans hurt community banks and thrifts during the first quarter of the year. Welcome, Sabal: It looks like Brian Hall and some other bankers in the area (see AmSouth, next item) didn't get the Ryan Beck & Co. memo.Unrestrained Exuberance: AmSouth Bank is about a year behind its Florida peers, but it plans to catch up fast.Hotels are the new condos: The aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Charley put a halt to new hotel developments in Southwest Florida.Law now fair?: The legal doctrine of joint and several liability, recently overturned by t

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 24, 2004
Drive-by Litigation?

Small businesses battle what they call frivolous and expensive lawsuits bydisabled rights advocates.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
Golf Under Siege

Gulf Coast counties are implementing golf course design standards, ostensibly to maximize environmental protection. Opponents say it's a thinly veiled attempt to prevent growth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2004
Incumbents Retrench (Tampa edition)

Hillsborough Circuit Judge Charles "Ed" Bergmann knows Beth Gilmore Reineke fairly well. The Tampa family law attorney has practiced in his court. Two days prior to deadline, the solo practitioner filed and paid the qualifying fee to challenge him

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2008
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