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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 12, 2025
Sarasota Orchestra releases schematics of $425M Music Center project

As it aims toward a 2027 groundbreaking, the Sarasota Orchestra has released designs of its new Music Center campus.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 22, 2026
Fort Myers land sold for future fire station

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a car dealer buys Fort Myers property, Lakeland grocers are changing names, and a global manufacturer expands in Manatee.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 23, 2023
Local politician pays $4.75M for Holmes Beach property, mum on plans

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a lot of land changes hands in Punta Gorda, a car wash is on the market in Tampa, and the state's leading cancer center gets ready to expand.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 27, 2023
Bradenton, Sarasota County move ahead slowly after deals with public buildings

The two localities made significant decisions in the past couple years to sell municipal buildings.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 10, 2023
Tampa apartment complex sells for $45.7 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Sunseeker shows off its rooms, a hotel changes hands, and two south Sarasota County properties sell for $3.1 million.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 20, 2006
Rent Spike

Falling vacancy rates and construction costs are driving up rents for retailers along Florida's Gulf Coast. How much higher can they go?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 24, 2006
Innovation Continuation

Past winners of the Reviews' annual Technology Award continue to innovate and, in many cases, that has led to more employees and higher revenues.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 19, 2006
Business as Usual

John Cannon Homes recently moved its headquarters to Lakewood Ranch.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 24, 2009
A Mighty Sight

A Gulf Coast medical science company has big plans to leverage technology it bills as stellar enough to alter an industry. Big plans, however, come with big challenges.

  • Strategies
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  • By Lou Lasday |
  • October 7, 2010
'Do You Know Me?'

Prove you're good and you lose. Prove you're good for me and win.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2012
Corporate Report: June 22

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 15, 2021
Casto Southeast hitting bulls’-eye with Center Point

Casto Southeast Realty Services' Lakewood Ranch development will feature office, medical office and retail on 50 acres at completion.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 20, 2021
Benderson Development expanding through net-lease investments

University Park-based Benderson Development has completed more than a half-dozen such acquisitions since 2019 totaling $1.5 billion.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 25, 2020
Tech firm looks to recapture past growth rate in 2021

The pandemic pushed a fast-growing tech company in unexpected directions. While several moves were for survival, others lay the groundwork for a solid 2021.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 7, 2020
Community bank readies itself for surge in business

With new buildings and new customers — capitalizing on bigger banks’ missteps in one case — Sanibel Captiva Community Bank primes itself for a solid end to the year.

  • Finance
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • January 24, 2020
Tech firm, after $75M investment, plots global expansion

CallMiner ended 2019 with a bang, closing a $75 million investment round with Goldman Sachs.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • June 24, 2020
Entrepreneur seeks to buy, revamp and redevelop part of town

Andre Spivey aims to encourage investors to purchase a portion of Toomsboro, Ga., and adapt its historic buildings to new purposes.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 9, 2019
New CEO lights the way as firm changes course

OttLite, a venerable Tampa, Florida, lighting technology firm, has fought off stagnation by jumping into a new market: products that reduce eyestrain.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 20, 2022
Tech firm tackles pain points of presentation management

Shufflrr, a software platform firm with some supersize global clients, aims to build on its momentum — by ditching New York for Tampa, Florida.

  • Technology
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 4, 2019
House call: $172M new home for health care institution

Poised to move in in late 2019, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute will be one of the first residents of Water Street Tampa, Jeff Vinik’s $3 billion, 53-acre, mixed-use urban development in downtown Tampa, Florida.

  • Strategies
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