• Alternate Text
  • Loading

  • Newsletters
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • 40 Under 40 Nomination
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Health Care
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • Change-Makers
    • Reprints
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Health Care
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • Change-Makers
    • Reprints
  • Newsletters
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • 40 Under 40 Nomination
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login

Results for:

  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • October 17, 2019
Porter Smith, 39

Tampa Bay Market President, American Momentum Bank

  • Class of 2019
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 2, 2024
Collier County pays $20.77 million for 2,500 acres near Immokalee

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an engineering firm leases more space in Tampa, lots are ready for multifamily development for sale in Sarasota, and Babcock Ranch reaches a milestone.

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 24, 2025
Toll Brothers to build new luxury home community in south Sarasota County

Oakbend Wellen Park will begin selling homes this summer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 12, 2023
Jordan Hallam, 38

A banker who didn't think he'd be a banker now relishes opportunity to provide businesses with capital.

  • Class of 2023
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Laura Lyon |
  • October 10, 2024
Krystal Humphrey, 32

40 Under 40 winner Krystal Humphrey is deputy executive director of Bay Area Apartment Association.

  • Class of 2024
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Alex Walsh |
  • October 10, 2024
Dan Sidler, 38

40 Under 40 winner Dan Sidler is vice president, CareerEdge and Economic Development, at The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.

  • Class of 2024
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 10, 2024
Heather Woods-Elya, 38

40 Under 40 winner Heather Woods-Elya is partner and vice president of sales and marketing at California Closets Southwest Florida.

  • Class of 2024
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 10, 2024
Ryne Johnson, 33

40 Under 40 winner Ryne Johnson is the owner of Spirit Movers.

  • Class of 2024
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 9, 2025
Morgan Richmond, 39

40 Under 40 winner Morgan Richmond is president of The Furniture Warehouse.

  • Class of 2025
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 28, 2025
First Watch exec dishes on how the company maintains top-tier culture

Karen Sainsbury emphasizes that to have great company culture, the words need to be lived, not just printed and taped to a wall.

  • Leadership
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2006
Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk: Southwest may add Fort Myers flightsThe real estate market may be in the dumps, but at least one segment of the advertising industry that caters to it - billboards - is booming. Sarasota employers are not an optimistic bunch, according to Manpower Inc.'s most recent employment outlook survey.Coral Gables-based Cornerstone Group is touting its new all-concrete town home community as the cure to homeowners' insurance woes.If the residential real estate market is in a slump, you wouldn't know it based on investors' appetites.Morgan Stanley executives say they've raised $1.75 billion for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V U.S., the institutional fund that recently bought Babcock Ranch in partnership with West Palm Beach developer Syd Kitson. Tampa-based Suncoast Roofers Supply (profiled in the May 12 Review) has opened its 15th location, this one in Gainesville, home of the University of Florida Gators.When the public sector borrows from the business world, it tends to raise eyebrows and lower costs. In Sarasota County, that lesson is coming home in the Office of Financial Planning.Pulte Homes and its DiVosta subsidiary are two of the best homebuilders on the Gulf Coast for customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Power and Associates. Yet another Palm Avenue development RFPThere's an anti-development fight in St. Pete Beach, a south Pinellas County coastal community of 10,000, and Wa

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 6, 2006
Real Estate Briefs

American Retirement Corp. pays $95 million for Freedom VillageAutoMaxx owner buysdealership, nearby landParadise Communities prepares start of Valencia at BurnsNorth Naples Storage owner buys land for more growthWaterman Development Group acquires Lehigh Acres landEmergency Consultants buys home for subsidiaryEquity One acquires Sunpoint Shopping CenterLowe Enterprises Real Estate acquires Land O' Lake property

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 24, 2003
Ahead of the Wave

Transplanted British developer Derick Coles sees rising British investment and immigration coming to Florida. His New Horizons' clients are bringing $500 million a year into Florida.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 13, 2023
Report: Florida files more personal injury lawsuits than any other state — by far

The law firm that analyzed a year’s worth of data calls the gap “staggering.”

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 24, 2023
Governor signs major legal reforms into law

The bill will "decrease frivolous lawsuits and prevent predatory practices of trial attorneys," says the governor's office.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 20, 2023
Bankrupt retailer to shutter 11 stores across the Gulf Coast

Sales at the closing Tuesday Morning stores, which includes 24 in Florida, will go on for about eight weeks before the locations go back to landlords.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 20, 2022
Naples health tech firm co-founded by Tony Robbins wins $15M investment

The company has offices in Naples, New York, Texas and India.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 8, 2011
Get Back Up

A businessman who has seen success and failure has a message for all would-be entrepreneurs: Now's the time to live the dream.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • October 7, 2011
Creative Business

Daniel Scott has spent years mentoring startup businesses.Now he's taking his knowledge to a college campus.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • September 11, 2013
12 years after 9/11, some companies fail to show respect

It has been 12 years since the attack on the World Trade Centers. Today, there were memorials across the country honoring the victims.

  • News
« 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 »
The best of Business Observer, delivered directly to your inbox

Get the latest business and commercial real estate news from Tampa Bay to Naples.

Sign Up

Contact

  • 1970 Main St.
  • Third Floor
  • Sarasota, FL 34236
  • Phone: 941-362-4848

Extra, Extra!

  • Newsletters
  • App
  • Podcast
  • Big Book of Business

more

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Distribution Points
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Accessibility Options

sister sites

  • Your Observer
  • Jax Daily Record
  • Orange Observer
  • Accessibility Options
  • Copyright © 2026 Observer Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved
×
3 Articles Remaining!
Not a Subscriber?

Click here to Subscribe

Already a Subscriber?

Click here to Login

Sign Up for Daily Brief

Start your day with the top Gulf Coast business news you need to succeed.

Sign Up for CRE Central

Stay updated with a weekly roundup of big deals, market shifts and the people shaping commercial real estate from Tampa Bay to Naples.


Smart People Subscribe.

Turn headlines into game plans. The playbook’s right here.
Subscribe to the Business Observer today.

Subscribe Now