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  • August 13, 2013
Shareholder revolt ousts HMA board

Shareholders boot longtime hospital chief Chairman William Schoen and the board.

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  • May 25, 2012
Insurance firm seeks to back up market confidence

Executives at FCCI Insurance Group have faith in a rebound of the local commercial real estate market.

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  • May 30, 2012
Realtors group finds a new home

A land swap benefits the Sarasota Association of Realtors.

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  • November 9, 2012
Five senior centers sold for $59.83 million

Uncorroborated press reports put the total purchase price at $100 million.

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  • November 16, 2012
American Realty Capital Trust buys Tampa Family Dollar store

The price equated to $105 per square foot and a payoff ratio based on an income (capitalization rate) of 8.4%.

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  • September 18, 2012
Chasing the Titanic: film company's demise hits home

The peril of picking winners and losers in economic development is on full display on Florida's east coast.

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  • September 28, 2012
Numbers duke it out with anecdotes in industry survey

A comprehensive survey of executives in the buildings material industry basically has two conclusions.

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  • October 1, 2012
Banker gets back in the game

When Manatee County banker Steve Jonsson spoke to a Wall Street Journal reporter in September 2010, he used words like “marked man, depressing and scarlet letter” to describe his life.

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  • June 12, 2012
Hotel firm seizes better days

The recession has been particularly painful to The Plasencia Group, a niche brokering hotel acquisitions firm.

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  • June 22, 2012
Eat it Up

The plan behind a restaurant expansion was to fit a lot into a little. It worked.

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  • October 26, 2012
Realtor, PILOT Real Estate execs buy land for Mustique of Olde Naples

An investor group headed up by Jordan Saper and Joe Belz purchased four parcels totaling a little over half an acre on Fourth Avenue and Fifth Street.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • July 6, 2012
Phone firm seeks more lines

Florida, and the Gulf Coast, is a major growth target for Cellular Sales, the largest independent Verizon Wireless dealer in the nation.

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  • December 1, 2011
Sykes shrinks global operations

The firm will leave South Africa and Ireland, and sell its Spanish operations.

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  • April 12, 2012
Firm's launch underscores crafty accounting

Florida firms beware: the state government could start using some interesting auditing techniques to mine easy budget sources

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  • June 22, 2021
Midwest credit union continues promised expansion into Florida

Lake Michigan Credit Union buys Pilot Bank helping keep CEO plan to make Florida its "second home."

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  • July 21, 2021
Lab pioneer’s $60 million HQ project nearly complete

NeoGenomics’ new facility is double the size of the company’s current facility.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • July 22, 2021
New board president elected to lead music program

Timothy Gruters took over the position July 1.

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  • August 8, 2021
Bank promotes official to VP of lending role

Rudi Hamer has been with Sanibel Captiva Community Bank since 2017.

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  • September 24, 2021
Master-planned community sells 190 lots — adds a new builder

Pulte Homes will build homes in the final phase of the Brightwood neighborhood within North River Ranch.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • September 27, 2021
Commercial loan portfolios across the region decline

While business loans fell, a few banks in the region posted increases in real estate loans.

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