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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 6, 2008
THOMSON: Sarasota vs. Lee? Unseemly.

Sarasota and Lee counties, and their municipalities, must avoid a bidding war for spring training.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2004
High Tech Signage

Ken Goldberg and partners are introducing a new technology that helps retail sales while appealing to the American consumers' penchant for television.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
Charging Forward

The head of RARE Hospitality International explains his vision for the companyis restaurant chains and the consequences of inconsistency.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 28, 2020
Food distributor moves quickly to meet rapidly shifting needs

While Sysco West Florida adapts to the market, its top executive follows an important leadership creed: slow down.

  • Leadership
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • February 8, 2022
Behind the beans: Happy coffee guy grows grumpy-led business

Grumpy Goat Coffee keeps building buzz in Bonita Springs. One key to the early success? A willingness to find and utilize partners and collaborators.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • September 27, 2019
With alternative to hotel gift basket, entrepreneur grows business

Shuchi Vyas has created a package of useful items for guests at hotels and other rental properties.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 3, 2025
Tech investor, developer propose $6.8B St. Pete redevelopment, including Tropicana field

A team led by Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management, and Casey Ellison, founder and CEO of Ellison Cos., wants to redevelop the Historic Gas Plant District.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 19, 2025
Miami developer gets $121 million loan for St. Petersburg project

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a New York banks stays in Tampa, an industrial site is up for sale in Sarasota, and a famed barrier island inn is being rebuilt.

  • Florida
  • By Max Gulker, Adrian Moore |
  • February 16, 2026
DeSantis has better policy than rhetoric on data centers

Fears about data centers using too much electricity and water are overblown, the authors say.

  • Opinion
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  • By Denise Federer |
  • March 22, 2012
Successfully Embracing Change

How to overcome the hurdle of inaction to do the things you need to achieve your goals.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 28, 2017
Five-Star Fancy

Tampa Bay could be home to a new luxury hotel if job and tourism growth continue.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • September 15, 2022
Disrupter creates 'Uber for nurses' to fight staffing challenges

Gale Healthcare Solutions creator Tony Braswell, the recipient of a major award for entrepreneurs, is "scary passionate" about solving the nation’s nurse shortage.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 27, 2023
Bank spends nearly $60 million on facility for employees in Tampa

More build-to-rent coming, a couple of hotels sell and a $40 million office sale top the week's commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • November 19, 2020
Former dog track reinvents itself, focused on poker

A voter-approved amendment was the initial catalyst that forced the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track owners to change strategies. With a $10 million project, and possibly more to come, their sights are set on more card shuffling.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2003
Southwest Florida's Growth Engine

Commercial property makes up less than 10% of Cape Coral's ad valorem tax base. Can the growing city become a thriving business center?

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 15, 2019
Tampa Bay's office rent growth among tops in the nation

A new survey by researcher CoStar Group finds that Tampa Bay's office rental rate growth is among the highest in the nation

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 31, 2015
Corporate report

Mortgage Bankers Association installs board of governors; Coastal Orthopedics conducting new spinal-cord research; Jabil reaches agreement to grow in Vietnam; Innovative Food Holdings subsidiary growing Chicago area presence; Action Automatic Door & Gate expands to Manatee County

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 10, 2024
Investors pay $3 million for seven downtown Bradenton properties

In the week's top commercial real estate news, newcomers commit to longer leases in Tampa, and $400 million in sales triggers new tower along Estero Bay.

  • Florida
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 2, 2026
13 new retailers, eateries coming to University Town Center

Restaurants and retailers are among the new businesses coming to the UTC area.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2004
Free Press

This week's items: First America Bank to sell shares of common stock Southern Siding opened new Sarasota office/warehouse Event Services International full service, has new nameNeal Communities says new logo captures corporate image

  • News
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