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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 22, 2024
Report: 4 Gulf Coast cities rank in top 50 places to live in US

U.S. News & World Report put Naples at No. 1 on its Best Places to Live list for 2024. Sarasota, also on the list, is drawing not just residents but employers too, according to an economic development official.

  • Florida
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • August 5, 2025
Tampa Museum of Art expansion begins with new dog park downtown

A new dog park coming to downtown Tampa will herald the first visible steps in the Tampa Museum of Art’s highly anticipated expansion.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 15, 2026
Rays expect new ballpark by 2029 despite 'daunting,' 'overwhelming' challenges

Speaking on the "Hunks Talking Junk" podcast, the Tampa Bay Rays' CEO says he expects to have a deal done that will make it possible for a new stadium to open in time for the 2029 season.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • April 20, 2023
Banks flush with cash as customers squirrel away money

As consumers seek safer havens for their money in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, Florida banks have benefited from a sharp rise in deposits, but challenges loom.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 16, 2021
Entrepreneur chases demand: he helps people be kickass husbands

Matt Hoffman comes to his new business from personal experience.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 7, 2025
SRQ adds flight to Kentucky

Service began this April between Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 30, 2005
A Foot in the Door

Edward Lett's bank dominates the Florida Keys. He has similar ambitions for Southwest Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 15, 2011
Corporate Report: Apr. 15

The latest news from US Natural Gas, Tech Data, and other Gulf Coast companies.

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • August 10, 2018
John Schuerholz tops off successful career at the new spring home of the Braves

Atlanta Braves chairman emeritus John Schuerholz at new spring training headquarters in North Port

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2010
Correction

A real estate brief on the Asolo Theatre buying a new production center in the Review's January 22-28 issue should have said that Kimberly Rogers is with CB Richard Ellis.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 7, 2006
Thomson: Impact fees a threat to future of Gulf Coast

Escalating impact fees will undermine new construction and economic growth.

  • Opinion
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  • By Amity Shlaes |
  • February 27, 2009
The 1930s economic myth

Cheering for Obama stimulus buys into 1930s myth that FDR's spending and experimentation ended the Great Depression.

  • Opinion
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 4, 2023
2023 Top Entrepreneur: Dr. Jacqueline Darna, founder of NoMo Nausea and Intellidoc, Tampa

Dr. Jacqueline Darna’s initial foray into medical entrepreneurship, a consumer product called NoMo Nausea, was a hit. Now she aims to disrupt telehealth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 11, 2009
Millage Mayhem

With taxable property values way down for the second year in a row, the rolled back tax rates look to be heading up — but not without a fight between elected officials, their staffs and property taxpayers.

  • Florida
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 30, 2005
Missionary CEO

How homebuilder Daniel Dodrill learned to delegate. 'I'm not going to Africa. I've got a business to run,' Dodrill told a Rwandan missionary. 'If I'm not around, it doesn't get done right.' But Dodrill went. And, guess what?Here's how Dodrill juggles his business, charity and family.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Summer Martin, 36

Marketing and Events Coordinator, Pasco Economic Development Council

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 12, 2023
Katie Kominos, 39

A construction professional finds her footing in the industry as a project manager of a $200 million building.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2007
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Fort Myers' P.F. Holdings buys Horizon PlazaParadise Development buys ArborGate land for WalgreensDebbie's Drapery Design Studio moves to Trace Center WayManatee County School Boardbuys Superior Electronics buildingsSarasota investors buy Riverside Oaks ParkMassachusetts investor buys Commerce Court buildingNewland Communities planning FishHawk neighbor Lake HuttoBPG Investment Partnership buys, renames telecom buildingOcala investors buy buildingsplan condo conversion

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 8, 2009
A Bite of the Big Apple

CEO Fitness

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 30, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Bruce Franklin | Urban planner, Sarasota

Bruce Franklin was a ubiquitous presence inside Sarasota's City Hall a decade ago.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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