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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2020
Entrepreneur shifts mobility startup in new direction

Stephanie Gomez seeks $2 million for Stabilife System.

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  • March 20, 2020
Route change for entrepreneurial Grand Prix driver

Race car driver and winemaker Kevin Buckler promoted his new red wine collection in St. Petersburg despite the cancelation of the Firestone Grand Prix.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2020
Area bank posts best quarterly gain in deposits since 2004

Despite a robust quarter in most metrics, profits dropped at First Citrus Bank.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2020
New 18-hole championship golf course opens

The course at Esplanade at Azario Lakewood Ranch is open to the public with introductory prices.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 10, 2020
After nonprofit CEO resigns, organization names interim CEO

Arthur Lerman was executive director of ITNSuncoast and We Care Manatee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 17, 2019
Need a fresh look for your headquarters? Just Google it

Inspired by the emphasis on employee creature comforts at tech giants like Google and Facebook, Tampa, Florida-based health care technology firm MHK — until recently it was known as MedHOK, short for Medical House of Knowledge — has moved to new corporate

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 21, 2019
Advertising association gets regional chapter reboot

American Advertising Federation-Southwest Florida set for July 1 relaunch.

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  • February 11, 2022
Build-for-rent community to bring 274 homes to area

The community is a multifamily housing concept focused on homebuyers facing unaffordable options.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 29, 2018
Retailer, after drop in sales, profits, loses top exec

fter a little more than two years at the helm of the Chico’s brand, a unit of Fort Myers-based women’s retailer Chico’s FAS, Diane Ellis has left the company.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2018
Digital marketing company names new CEO

John Lemp will transition to a role as chairman of Revcontent’s board of directors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2019
Prominent real estate development firm names new CEO

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based The Sembler Co., which has developed more than 350 real estate projects totaling 27 million square feet throughout the Southeast and Puerto Rico, has named Greg Sembler CEO, effective Jan. 1.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2019
Company's founding CEO plans retirement, successor named

Stellar Partners Inc. founder and CEO Susan Stackhouse has announced her retirement after leading the Tampa, Florida-based airport retailer for 30 years. Padraig Drennan will succeed her.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • February 15, 2019
Medical device maker gets warm welcome to neighborhood

TouchPoint Medical, a subsidiary of Concordville, Pa.-based TouchPoint Inc. that makes equipment carts and mounts for high-tech medical devices, broke ground Feb. 6 on what will be a $30 million, 142,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in The Preserve,

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  • February 18, 2019
Major brokerage transfers ownership of rental division

Gulf Coast Property Management, a Lakewood Ranch based firm with some 1,000 rental properties in its portfolio, has assumed ownership of the rental leasing and management division of Michael Saunders & Co.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2019
Go your own way: Bank takes different approach to branch-building strategy

The Bank of Tampa, based in Tampa, Florida, defies conventional wisdom by opening a vastly bigger banking and back-office support center on the site of an existing branch.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 1, 2019
David Weekley begins Sarasota townhome, villa project

David Weekley Homes has broken ground on Payne Park Village, a 135-unit residential community in Sarasota that will be the company's first ground-up community development in the city.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 26, 2018
Hospital changes owners, gets new CEO and invests $1.6 million

Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal River, Florida, joined Bayfront Health's network and named Linda Stockton CEO.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 27, 2017
Market in outperform mode

The real estate market in Tampa and St. Petersburg — both commercial and residential — continued to outperform during the third quarter last year, notching milestones not seen since prior to last decade's economic recession.

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  • By Randi Donahue |
  • February 10, 2017
How to ... Deal with a challenging client

A positive outcome with a client has a lot to do with managing expectations on the front end of the relationship, says Josh Myers, owner of Sarasota-based Myers Painting LLC.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 1, 2017
Luxury home sells for $4.6M, sets new mark

Sale is one of three area non-waterfront homes to surpass $4 million in the last 15 months.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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