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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 13, 2024
Breeze adds Connecticut flights to Sarasota, Fort Myers

Breeze Airways is adding routes to southwest Florida from New Haven, Connecticut.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • May 1, 2025
Postwar St. Petersburg hotel gets new look with renovations

Skybeach Resort, a two-story hotel with Old Florida charm on the waterfront just off the Skyway Bridge in Pinellas County, recently completed a series of renovations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 24, 2024
Tommy Bahama to open new restaurant and retail store on St. Armands

"The idea of not having a restaurant in St. Armands, which is like a second home to us, was unthinkable," the CEO says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 10, 2024
Gulf Coast Community Foundation names VP of community leadership

Erin Minor, who has been CEO of the nonprofit Harvest House since 2018, will step into a new role at a philanthropic organization.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 7, 2025
Tampa Publix-anchored shopping center included in $260M financing

The local center was part of a 10-property portfolio that sold for nearly $400 million earlier this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 11, 2025
Publix opens Fort Myers store a year after demolition

The Lakeland grocery chain built a new store on Daniels Parkway, replacing one that had stood in the space since 1990.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 22, 2026
High-end Tampa home remodeling firm expanding into Orlando, plans 70 jobs

Revive Design and Renovation is currently converting a former vegan restaurant in the Orlando market into its new 5,000-square-foot showroom.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 26, 2026
Sarasota-based Boar's Head rolls out Greek yogurt dessert dips

The deli food provider recently debuted its Greek yogurt dessert dip collection.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 30, 2008
Data that Works

Some of the biggest names in the hotel industry use DataWorks' software to manage their retail operations.Now, the company has set its sights on international markets and other parts of hotel operations.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • February 21, 2020
We can verify this: E-Verify is not a fix

Leave us alone. Let us do what we do in peace.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 22, 2014
Stomp on it

The grow-through-acquisition tactic is easy to diagram, complicated to execute. A Gulf Coast firm with a new CEO who previously ran a pair of multibillion-dollar businesses leads the way.

  • Strategies
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 14, 2024
Sarasota business owner sent to prison for real estate fraud

Jose “Jay” Manuel Santiago, who owned Santiago & Sons Construction in Sarasota and was an HOA president, is involved in two separate fraud cases.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 23, 2011
Corporate Report: Dec. 23

The latest news from ITC Global and other Gulf Coast companies.

  • News
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 6, 2019
Museum, education center prospers outside of city control

The Southwest Florida business community supports the IMAG History & Science Center.

  • Strategies
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  • By Elizabeth Morrisey |
  • April 5, 2019
As soccer continues its rise, area team aims to capitalize on boom

Florida Tropics SC, based in Lakeland, it continues to expand its brand.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 12, 2019
Leader helps build great teams — from Baghdad to fast-food counter

Onetime military logistics expert turns his expertise toward the restaurant industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 29, 2023
Tampa grocery store on brink of opening plans to hire 95

The new Sprouts Farmers Market is one of 10 the company is opening in Florida this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 28, 2023
National pet hospital company expands to Tampa

GoodVets’ local practice will be operated by veterinarian Dr. Andrea Caspary.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2023
Sarasota architecture firm names new partner

Karl Bernhard has been with Sweet Sparkman Architecture and Interiors for over seven years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jay Brady |
  • January 2, 2009
A road by any other name just wouldn't be the same

Miami may get the honor of naming the first street after our new president, as a bill is filed designating a portion of Biscayne Boulevard in Miami-Dade County “Barack Obama Boulevard” starting July 1.

  • Florida
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