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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 6, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Tampa)

Coquina Key Arms to be converted into condosTwo more hotels to become condominiumsNew York investor buys Ambassador ApartmentsBill Edwards buys office property in Treasure IslandMcKibbon Hotel Management expands corporate officeWyndham International Inc.obtains $24.75 million mortgage

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 15, 2005
A Banker Goes to City Hall

Plant City thrift executive Robert P. Brown joins a select group: bankers in elected office.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2008
Fresh Eats

Honduras native Chris Andino didn't even speak English until he was 18. Today he runs one of the fastest growing Subway franchises on the Gulf Coast.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2003
Young and Hungry

Two Sarasota men, in their 30s, took their home building company, Vision Homes of Southwest Florida, from $45,000 in sales to $14 million in just four years.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 31, 2003
Patently Offended

BillingNetwork.com, an Internet medical-billing company, notified 250 competitors they may be in violation of federal patent laws. It has sued four of them.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2004
Tampa to Baghdad

Stanley L. Martin shipped out to Iraq in April. Heis now a sought after criminal defense attorney in the war-torn region.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 4, 2010
TXT MSG 4 $

Interop Technologies executives didn't expect text messaging to grow as fast as it has. When it did, they rebuilt the business and landed big cell-phone customers like Metro PCS and Cox Communications. Now they're launching a $30 million expansion into Latin America.

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  • By George Rauch |
  • March 18, 2010
How Government Destroyed Our Money

Here's a historical account everyone should read. It shows how we have rejected what the Founding Fathers knew would destroy our Republic.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2009
Election time: Crist changes his tune; don't buy the pitch

Don't buy it. Please don't buy it.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • October 1, 2010
For Love and Profit

Tampa's i9 Sports believes it has a solution to the crisis facing youngsters who may not get enough exercise or are unhappy on neighborhood teams. The concept is growing nationally.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • November 5, 2010
Legally Bondi

Pam Bondi, an 18-year career prosecutor from Tampa, has put away murderers, rapists and gang members, defeated two experienced candidates in the primary, and now has her eyes set on being attorney general.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 24, 2010
Kitson Keeps Kicking

Syd Kitson continues to seek out residential and commercial deals on the Gulf Coast. The first homes at Babcock Ranch in Charlotte County are about two years away.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 17, 2010
Different Directions

The founder of a local seized bank ponders what could have been, while a banker new to the Gulf Coast muses about what's next.

  • Industries
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 16, 2010
Costly Clusters

State and local governments have spent more than $1.5 billion to bring biomedical research institutes to Florida since 2004, or nearly $1.4 million per job created so far. Collier County wants to join the club.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 4, 2010
Big Peanuts

A small Gulf Coast debt-buying firm is poised to make a sizeable leap in just about every way. Good thing one of its strengths is analyzing risk.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 20, 2010
Sweet Dreams

The Gulf Coast hotel industry has been hit from all sides lately. But one entrepreneur has bet big — $25 million big — on his visionary property.

  • Industries
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 18, 2011
Follow the money

A group of Collier County government appointees asked The Jackson Laboratory tough questions. In the end, Collier decided it was too risky.

  • Florida
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  • By Denise Kalette |
  • March 1, 2013
Bring Them Home

Too many young people are leaving Tampa for cities that offer better jobs, says Mayor Bob Buckhorn. He intends to change that.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 1, 2013
Corporate Report: March 1

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 2, 2011
Brand Up

The renovation of a Gulf Coast firm that sells a range of products in a variety of ways has been an all-out extreme makeover. Success could be imminent.

  • Strategies
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