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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 22, 2011
Lido Shores residents buy Longboat's Grand Mariner

Ralph and Sheri Trine of Lido Shores purchased the prominent 14-unit Grand Mariner condominium for $9.5 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2014
Tampa Cheap for car rentals

Cheapskates rejoice: Tampa is the second most affordable place to rent a car in the country, behind only Orlando, tied with Fort Lauderdale and ahead of Las Vegas and San Diego.

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  • January 29, 2010
Medical user buys office building

A Bonita Springs-based limited liability company led by Daniel Thompson purchased a 15,258-square-foot office building on Colonial Boulevard west of Interstate 75 for $3.1 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 16, 2010
Largo's USAmeriBank buys former Colonial branch

USAmeriBank purchased a 3,336-square-foot bank branch for $1.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2013
Sarasota real estate firm Gravitas buys Punta Gorda aggregate, shell mine

The price equated to $9,250 per acre.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 11, 2011
Paradise Supplements buys new headquarters

John and Cathy Atamian, owners of Naples-based Paradise Supplements and Packaging Inc., purchased a 13,600-square-foot industrial building for $775,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 8, 2011
Community buys Old Harbor

Post merger, Community Bank and Co. will manage nearly $1 billion in assets.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 25, 2012
Broker launches new firm

Commercial real estate veteran Ken Hughes will focus on medical office space.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • May 10, 2013
Corporate Report: May 10

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 12, 2023
Homebuilder debuts new Polk County community

Centex, a PulteGroup brand, held a grand opening of Lake Alfred Pines last month.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 17, 2017
Showtime for office furniture

Reimagine Office Furnishings expands with new Ybor City showroom.

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  • November 17, 2010
Job-quitting on the rise

Of all those who left their jobs last month, 50% did so voluntarily.

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  • September 9, 2010
Syniverse's messaging grows

Mobile message volumes increased 23% for the Tampa technology firm.

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  • July 1, 2010
Alico adds Smith as COO

Ken Smith is expected to help identify new land-based revenue streams.

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  • May 6, 2013
Bank names new president

IberiaBank names David Gordley president of the Naples market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • November 17, 2017
New-to-market medical and wellness center opens

EliteHealth had a grand opening for its Venice location and also opened a Sarasota office.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 1, 2014
Alico completes sugar land sale

Agribusiness firm Alico sold 36,000 acres of sugarcane land for $98 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • August 5, 2015
Sarasota-Manatee area home prices rise 10%

The North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton market is up 2.3% month-over-month.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 3, 2025
Prominent Sarasota corporate HQ up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Naples high-end shopping center gets an upgrade, a Tampa condo complex to be "repositioned" as rental apartments, and Manatee buys a historic farm.

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  • September 1, 2006
Coffee Talk

A luxurious incentive:For many Realtors and home agents, getting those fence-sitting buyers to take the plunge and actually buy a house is an on-going battle these days. PCM trims newspaper company holdings: Naples-based Private Capital Management, which manages $24 billion for wealthy and institutional investors, is sticking to its newspaper story even as a recent filing shows the firm trimmed its newspaper-stock holdings.Going through the government gauntlet: During the past 35 years, the executives at Morton's Gourmet Market, a Sarasota-based high-end grocery and bakery, have gone through the Sarasota's county and city government permitting gauntlet plenty of times, be it trying to expand a parking lot or build an addition to the structure. St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce President/CEO John Long says the city's skyline isn't all that's changing: The chamber is redefining itself through the shuffling of eight executives and the hiring of three new leaders in an effort to increase membership and better reflect the growth of the business community.The blogosphere and message boards are buzzing over the plunging shares of Fort Myers-based women's retailer Chico's FAS.Soon after Venice-based window and door manufacturer PGT went public earlier this summer, company president Rod Hershberger was given the rock star treatment.Coffee Talk can brag with the best of them, regularly touting Gulf Coast businesses that make the cut in n

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