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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 5, 2021
Oak Street funds target Walgreens

Chicago private equity firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital's move to buy Walgreens' stores comes as net-leased properties have gained in popularity.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 22, 2021
Biotech firm moves HQ to region, plans 100 new hires

CEO says startup plans to hire a large contingent of personnel in 2022.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 9, 2020
Hospital focuses on its north star in troubled times

Northside Hospital CEO Valerie Powell-Stafford says this a time for her hospital to shine.

  • Health Care
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 13, 2019
Australian company buys health care firm, plans $300M investment

Fort Myers-based  21st Century Oncology is less than two years removed from emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 20, 2020
Tampa area apartment wave continuing

Trio of high-profile transactions demonstrates market's resiliency and investor demand

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • June 1, 2018
Brand intervention: Marketer crafts image for tricky business proposition

A St. Pete startup caught the eye of Shark Tank's Mark Cuban, but it needed a cohesive brand image; a local marketing firm delivered the goods.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2018
Company falls short of jobs promise, repays county $100,000

rasota Medical only hired 12 people from 2010 to 2015. It fell 49 jobs short of its commitment — even though it already had the county’s $360,000. Company paid back Sarasota County $100,000, with the final payment coming earlier this year.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2019
Rebrand aims to better express medical firm's reach

Sarasota Orthopedic Associates has a new name, logo and website.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 8, 2019
Pair of Tampa-area apartments sell for $230 million

Buyers in two separate apartments transactions in Brandon and downtown St. Petersburg cite the area's growing population as the primary reason behind investments in excess of $100 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 5, 2019
Peridot Palms apartments in St. Petersburg trade for $98.25 million

UDR Inc. has invested $98.25 million to buy the luxury Peridot Palms apartments in St. Petersburg, one of the largest multifamily rental deals along the Gulf Coast over the past five years.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 24, 2019
CEO abruptly exits major area retailer

Women’s retailer Chico’s FAS, one of the largest companies in Southwest Florida, has named an interim CEO in the wake of former CEO and president Shelley Broader’s immediate resignation.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 20, 2018
High-wage, primary-industry jobs on the rise

Pinellas County Economic Development reports that the growth of high-wage, primary-industry jobs in the county has vastly exceeded expectations set out four years ago.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2018
Area builder discontinues popular line of homes, cites Trump tariffs

“Recent economic policies adopted by the current administration prevent us from continuing to provide an affordable housing solution,” Pat Neal says in a statement. “When Trump decided to meddle in the lumber industry, then enact retaliatory tariffs, the

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2018
Anchor’s aweigh in Tampa Bay

Part Uber, part driver's ed — but for boaters — Anchor Technologies has opened for business in Tampa.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 22, 2022
Iconic Naples hotel Inn on Fifth sells for $156 million

A Maryland company is buying the luxury property on Naples' upscale Fifth Avenue. The deal is set to close later this year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 18, 2022
DeSantis announces special session in May to address property insurance crisis

Gov. Ron DeSantis says the special session is needed to bring “sanity” and to “stabilize” property insurance market.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • December 2, 2016
'Keys to the kingdom'

Not yet 30, a pair of ambitious businessmen dumped their comfort zone to chase entrepreneurial independence. It's going well, so far.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 27, 2017
More than free snacks

The Execu|Search Group, a New York-based recruitment and workforce management firm, cements in a new survey what many executives have already experienced: employees are easy to lose and hard to hire.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 11, 2017
Sarasota City Center building sells for $36.5M

The purchase is the third major office transaction in Sarasota in the past year

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 29, 2014
Don't Get Hooked

Even with a simple and great design, it takes time and resources to bring a new product to market.

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