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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 20, 2024
Naples tourism agency names new top leader

The Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention & Visitors Bureau has named airport and tourism executive Jay Tusa tourism director.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 15, 2024
Tampa Starbucks employees vote to unionize

The store on North Dale Mabry is the eighth in Florida to become a union shop.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • February 3, 2025
Key West hotel brand opens Naples property, an $80M project

The 6.3-acre site was purchased in 2021 by a Key West investment group.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 28, 2023
Former city manager from Texas, business exec joins Sarasota EDC

Erik Zimmer’s business career was mostly in telecommunications.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 9, 2023
Medical dispensary chain opening Clearwater location, 11th in Florida

Rise Dispensaries is opening a store in Clearwater this week, its second in the Tampa market in the past three weeks.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 4, 2025
Sarasota company expands self-storage footprint to Florida’s East Coast

Baldwin-Howell Properties purchased property in West Palm Beach for a Class A self-storage facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 3, 2025
Tampa Starbucks employees want vote to join union

The employees at a shop in Carrollwood are seeking permission to hold a vote on unionization.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 13, 2025
First phase of Tarpon Point Marina dock system in Cape Coral complete

Golden Marine Systems will start the second phase of the project in early 2026.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 9, 2018
New upscale senior living communities riding the gray wave

Age-restricted and assisted living communities are evolving. Several facilities in the region — including one with a $120 million investment — are on the crest of innovation.

  • Strategies
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 2, 2006
Real Estate Briefs

Benderson completes Towne Center purchaseZuckerman Group, JEG buy land for office buildingGrand Oaks Properties plans office parkSarasota Conservation Foundation group buys waterfront propertyNeviot Realty buys The Preserve at Temple TerraceWood Partners buys land for 610 FranklinMarissa Collections buys location on Third StreetManheim acquires Southwest Florida Auto AuctionNaples group buys land, plans mixed-use project

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • November 4, 2005
Lessons from the Storm

How the Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa in Fort Myers recovered from Hurricane Charley offers valuable lessons in crisis management for any business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2004
Finding Green in Green

WCI Communities Inc., Florida's largest master-planned community developer, plans a major expansion in the Sarasota-Manatee market.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 11, 2010
Downtown Champion

Fort Myers residents elected Randy Henderson Jr. as mayor last fall, a longtime entrepreneur and former commercial banker. With a grand vision for downtown Fort Myers, he's not letting the slow economy stop him.

  • Florida
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 10, 2019
Couple grows subscription box business through digital advertising experience, customer feedback

Akeelah Kuraishi and Tim Minnick are building up Little Global Citizens in the "booming" subscription box industry.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 23, 2014
Neutral Zone

Naples physician Michael Dent is building a website that will bring together sellers and buyers of non-acute medical supplies. It's a hugely complex business.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 23, 2024
Developer pushes tiny homes as solution to affordable housing crisis

Dan Dobrowolski has been building small houses for two decades and believes they provide homeowners what they need and are more humane than traditional apartment blocks.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2007
Give us a Voice

Many Gulf Coast businesses and organizations are up in arms against the Hometown Democracy movement, but its supporters say the criticisms are incorrect and overblown and the economy is not in danger.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 3, 2018
Well built: Furniture maker overcomes, learns from adversity

Andrew Watson founded Built, a Tampa, Florida-based custom furniture maker, after dropping out of architectural school, but he has learned plenty on the job.

  • Industries
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 27, 2023
Chicken restaurant spices up Tampa with eight-location deal

The franchise owners of several Fuzzy's Taco Shop locations set their sights on a new venture: Dave's Hot Chicken.

  • Strategies
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 2, 2006
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