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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 2, 2016
Sailing champ to help run Fort Myers company

Offshore Sailing School named sailing champion Robert Brooks as its director of operations to oversee the company's seven locations.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2016
Theater lands $1 million pledge

Four supporters of the Florida Repertory Theatre pledged $1 million to the theater in downtown Fort Myers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • February 26, 2016
Can't Escape the Craze

Tampa entrepreneurs John and Kristi Collins first came across escape rooms during a family trip in Europe in 2014.

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  • March 22, 2016
Health care executive enters Florida House race

Alex Miller is CEO of Sarasota-based Mercedes Medical.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 3, 2014
Largo executive to lead ambulance association

Sunstar Paramedics COO Mark Postma will serve as president-elect next year and then president in 2016 of the national ambulance services trade association.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 21, 2015
High fidelity: Atlanta bank warms up to Bradenton

Fidelity Southern Corp. acquires First Bank's Florida portfolio.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 22, 2015
Florida Silica Sand expanding in Plant City

Florida Silica Sand Co. purchased 5.21 acres in Woodside Airport Industrial Park for $5.02 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 30, 2015
Green more fashionable in Tampa real estate

New research from CBRE shows the Tampa market is one of the fastest-growing when it comes to environmental building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • July 10, 2015
On tap: More brewskies

Southwest Florida's thirst for beer isn't quenched.

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  • July 17, 2015
Tech shakes up real estate

Over the last two decades, technology has radically changed how people live and work.

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  • December 11, 2015
Architect comes home

Sarasota architect David Young left his Naples home after graduating from high school.

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  • December 18, 2015
It's what the doctor ordered

The Wicked Dolphin billboard on Interstate 75 continues to make social media waves — even though it was taken down months ago.

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  • January 8, 2016
Low inventory issue looms

With December left to count, leaders with the Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee are confident 2015 will be a record for total sales in the two-county region.

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  • September 25, 2015
Florida: The state that loves lawsuits

Frivolous lawsuits are in growth mode in Florida.

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  • September 30, 2015
Ad agency extends reach to Sarasota

The O'Donnell Agency, based in West Palm Beach, has a third office in New York City.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2014
Bad news keeps on coming

Health care insurance brokers are getting a large dose of experience in being deliverers of bad news, courtesy of the Affordable Care Act.

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  • January 23, 2015
Set course for Wasmer Reef

Martin Wasmer is well known in money management circles, but now his name will be associated with great fishing and scuba diving, too.

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  • February 6, 2015
Roper buys two more firms for $450M

Conglomerate acquires one company in Pittsburgh and another in Vermont.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • March 6, 2015
Investor group buys Cape Town Apartments

Dieci 10th Street Properties LLC, a group that includes a mixture of local and foreign investors, purchased the 16-unit Cape Town Apartments for $1.65 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 16, 2015
Tampa biotech invests $9M to expand

Xcelience slated to create 100 jobs over next six years, paying at least $56,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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