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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 23, 2019
A Tale of a Smaller Elephant

Annual Market Trends presentation highlights a mostly steady real estate landscape in Southwest Florida

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 28, 2022
Next-gen architects embrace risks, eclectic array of projects

With a new home in a hot market, crazy-cool tech and a decade's worth of experience, Carbon Architecture & Design is poised for big growth.

  • Construction-Development
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2022
Want to be a better leader? Rumble with vulnerability

From tough conversations to simply being tougher in the face of doubt, being OK with being vulnerable is an essential asset.

  • Leadership
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Allison Flood, 28

Director of operations, sterile processing, LeeSar

  • Class of 2016
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 25, 2014
Trades are Back

Warehouses and other industrial buildings are filling up with construction trades as homebuilding recovers in the Fort Myers and Naples areas.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 5, 2015
THE CREATIVITY ISSUE: Outside your comfort zone

Innovation isn't only for the artistically inclined. One area college leads the way for businesses and executives.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 6, 2015
The $100 million question

Lee County has $100 million stashed in its land-buying program for conservation, but it doesn't have avery good track record of spending it wisely. Voters likely will decide its fate next year.

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Laura Lyon |
  • May 9, 2025
Entrepreneurial chemist creates winning business formula with speed, focus

A natural flair for invention and a passion for R&D power Pasco County-based burn care brand KeriCure.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Laura Lyon |
  • September 3, 2024
Tampa entrepreneur grows goat yoga business with grit, good times

How a small family and half a dozen goats jumped to new heights.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 19, 2026
Tampa court case could change how government tackles zoning

A dispute over the denial of a zoning request for a downtown hotel is likely heading to the Florida Supreme Court as questions raised about Tampa City Council’s authority.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 30, 2023
Local businesses encouraged to take damage survey

The survey asks for both physical and economic damages caused by Hurricane Idalia.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • May 23, 2022
Transactions: May 17-23

Multiple vacant Collier County land deals highlight this week's transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • August 22, 2022
Transactions: Aug. 2-8

Tampa office building sale for nearly $50 million highlights transactions this week.

  • Transactions
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 1, 2022
Bill Edwards expresses opposition to Dalí Museum expansion proposal

The former Tampa Bay Rowdies owner, whose company manages the nearby Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, says the referendum question amounts to an attempted “land grab.”

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2007
OutFOX the Competition

Engineers at a secret Fox Electronics lab have figured out how to make the heart of computers beat faster and cost less.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2008
Mission: Achievement

Gulf Coast nonprofits are suffering when it comes to donations, another byproduct of the economic slowdown. At least one group though, is looking to raise its entrepreneurial profile.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 25, 2008
Total Transformation

A successful technology entrepreneur wants to keepcomplacency at bay. He's hoping a new business model - and a large international expansion - does the trick.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2008
Brave Change

The real estate sales business model has changed littleover the years, maintaining an all-out focus on commissions.A Gulf Coast entrepreneur is out for change.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 19, 2009
Veterans team up for turn around

Sensing an unfilled niche, a pair of veteran Sarasota developers is teaming up with a Tampa real estate marketer to create a broad-based development turn-around firm.

  • News
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 28, 2010
Cheap stuff

Veteran economist Gregory Miller says Florida could lead the country to stronger-than-expected economic growth.

  • Finance
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