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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 20, 2020
Furniture stores see range of impacts from pandemic

Facing store closures, reopenings and supply chain issues, furniture stores are working to make sure customers feel comfortable shopping, whether in stores or online.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 17, 2025
Ringling College president announces retirement plans

Larry Thompson will continue to serve through the 2025-26 academic year, planning to step down in May 2026.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 21, 2024
Texas investor buys Venice medical building for $34.3 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Tampa gets new retailers, Bradenton gets a new hotel, and Naples gets a new upscale eatery.

  • Florida
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 27, 2024
Holmes Beach businesses in recovery after car crashes

The storefronts are boarded up across the street from one another along a busy stretch of Marina Drive.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Brooke Palmer Kuhl, 39

President, RSBP Events

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2011
Protect your business from triple-X lookalikes

Your business may be threatened by adult industry doppelgangers starting next year — but there are options to thwart their amorously themed existence.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 29, 2016
Net lease deals keep shining

The market for net-lease commercial real estate deals involving Gulf Coast properties appears to be healthy as ever, based on a series of transactions executed recently by a new Texas-based investment fund.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Jeremy Rearden, 35

Co-founder and CTO, Synergy Custom Technology Solutions

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2017
Retail giant seeks to aid aspiring entrepreneurs

HSN teams up with Randi Zuckerberg for American Dreams Academy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2010
Gamla-Cedron buys bulk units in Promenade at Tampa Palms

Gamla-Cedron Group, an Israeli real estate investment firm, continues to buy up condo portfolios in Greater Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kimbrell J. Hines | Labor & Employment Attorney |
  • January 7, 2022
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 21, 2008
Corporate Report

Barron Colliers, Lutgerts buy into TIBTaylor Morrison using AT&T networkMiva pay-click divisiontargets mobile viewers

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  • By Ted Carter |
  • March 23, 2018
British entrepreneur seeks to win over America with translation software

From a launch in Britain to now Southwest Florida, a tech entrepreneur has high hopes for his unique software firm.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 19, 2014
Review and Comment: Alternative to more Medicaid

Two weeks ago in this space, we presented counter-arguments to the politicians and others who say Florida should take billions of borrowed federal tax dollars to expand the state's Medicaid health system to uninsured Floridians.This week, we're focusing on an alternative.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2010
Florida offers tax amnesty

A new law allows tax delinquencies to be resolved without penalty until Sept. 30.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 20, 2009
Marici buys warehouse on Whitfield Park Loop

Marici LLC, a limited liability company run by Celeste Gruenstein, purchased a 9,750-square-foot warehouse in Whitfield Industrial Park near U.S. 301 for $650,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 4, 2010
Timberland Door buys Largo warehouse building

Timberland Door LLC purchased a 46,000-square-foot warehouse for $2.19 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2011
New venture buys Feather Sound

A group that plans to acquire multiple golf courses buys its first in Clearwater.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2011
The Links owner buys Beacon Woods Golf Club

The Links Golf Club owner Matt Lowman purchased the nearby Beacon Woods Golf Club for $1.74 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2023
Well-known wine festival draws in nearly $26 million

The Naples Winter Wine Festival set a record in its 23rd year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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