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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 8, 2018
Batter up: Business community rallies around Rays

One-hundred Tampa Bay area business leaders have formed a group to help keep the Rays baseball team in the region.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2018
Program exposes interns to variety of in-demand occupations

Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s new oncology internship program with Sarasota Military Academy high school students aims to build interest in an ever-growing field.

  • News
  • 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
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2018
Tampa beats back all comers in key business relocation metric

The cost of living in the Tampa metro area in the first quarter of 2018 was nearly 10% lower than the national average, according to data from the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. With a national average index of 100, Tampa’s COLI is 90.1, ac

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 23, 2018
Engineering group announces leadership promotion, new hires

Karins Engineering Group promoted John Bonacci to vice president of engineering.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2018
Lunch delivery company opens new location

Apple Spice has more than 40 locations across the U.S.

  • News
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 21, 2018
Kolter closes on Ritz-Carlton Residences land in Sarasota on Quay site

Kolter Group's $19.3 million deal paves way for new condo tower

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2018
Entrepreneur shifts focus to state Legislature race

27-year-old businessman aims to win Florida House seat.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 6, 2022
Master-planned community hits 2,000-home sales mark

Babcock Ranch also continues to win accolades, in addition to new residents.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 1, 2022
Medical manufacturer continues layoffs in Lakeland as facility prepares to shut down

Stryker is laying off 88 more people in Lakeland; nearly 500 will lose their jobs in all.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 28, 2016
Cancer treatment firm seeks big boost

After $10 million in research and product development into treating animals with cancer, officials with Tampa-based biotech firm Morphogenesis believe the firm is on the verge of what could be a big breakthrough: Adding a line of immunotherapy-based cancer treatments for humans, particularly people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and melanoma.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 11, 2016
Development project on lockdown

An unusual project to turn empty jail cells in downtown Bradenton into apartments for young professionals could be dead before it ever really gets going.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2016
Whirlwind of a deal

After years of near misses in attempts to raise capital, it's nice to finally be liked.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2016
Start those engines

Punta Gorda businessman Joe Gentry was revved up last August, fresh off a final nod from the Charlotte County Airport Authority on a five-year lease on the dormant Punta Gorda Speedway.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 30, 2016
Firm finds a branch

What was once one of the largest tree-planting firms in the region, Turner Tree and Landscape, has a new owner after a tumultuous five-year run that included several foreclosures and a bankruptcy filing.

  • News
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 24, 2017
Westshore Marina District moves forward

Five years after taking title to a 52-acre waterfront tract in South Tampa, Fort Lauderdale-based BTI Partners is moving forward with the initial phase of its Westshore Marina District project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2017
Take that, hurricanes

Developer building a strategy to battle storms.

  • News
  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 5, 2017
Naples firm plans 563-acre Charlotte development

In the wake of its $6.5 million purchase of a 563-acre tract in Punta Gorda, Lely Development Corp. intends to start work on a project that could contain as many as 2,400 residents and hundreds of thousands of commercial square feet at completion.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 5, 2018
Going Publix

The grocery giant has big plans for fending off fierce competition.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 3, 2022
Tampa tech commercial real estate firm raises $12M

Leasecake, headquartered at Tampa’s Embarc Collective, will use the funds to hire more employees and expand internationally.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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