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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 15, 2009
Fantasy man

Telecommunications executive Joe DiMaiohas turned into an entrepreneur and now gives information to fantasy sports league players.

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  • June 20, 2020
Developer proposes second luxury residence tower on waterfront site

City staff has offered preliminary feedback on plans for an 18-story building near U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 8, 2022
Massive machine begins trip from Port Manatee to Texas

Air Products is assembling three Liquefied Natural Gas Heat Exchangers.

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  • June 9, 2017
Bank acquisition hits snag

Unsolicited all-cash proposals could sidetrack Flagship Community's offer.

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  • January 8, 2016
Brain preservation

The issue of “brain drain,” when college grads leave town, armed with an education to go work and make a life somewhere else, has confounded Sarasota-Bradenton economic development officials for years.

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  • By Dan Ping |
  • May 20, 2011
Clear and Concise

Orange County has a new mayor and a new attitude toward working with the development community. A task force created by the mayor will attempt to make the development review process more efficient and less costly.

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  • October 30, 2008
Winning Time

The timing has never been better for Jeffrey Neil Fox and his family, who run a retail business that caters to fans of the Rays, Bucs, Bulls and Lightning.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2018
Medical marijuana firm keeps on rolling with $35.4 million in financing

Sarasota-based AltMed was recently approved to open a medical cannabis dispensary in Sarasota County.

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  • By Brian Steiner |
  • November 10, 2017
Stay on Course

A GE Aviation plant tucked away in Pinellas County has gone high-tech with its latest products to help pilots navigate better.

  • Manufacturing
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • July 1, 2016
Suds on the bus

Standing out in what's become a crowded field of independent breweries can be difficult. One company, with franchise plans, thinks it has an edge.

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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 Business Observer Staff |
  • September 6, 2011
C Products Defense to hire 100

A Connecticut-based firm will soon begin operating in Manatee County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 18, 2025
Medical office building to be built off Interstate 75 in Sarasota County

Construction is set to officially begin on a new Venice medical office building later July 24.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • May 17, 2011
Florida worst for unemployed

Florida named second-worst state in the nation for unemployed benefits.

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  • June 29, 2012
Cape launches site

Cape Coral creates a web portal for commercial real estate brokers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 17, 2023
Revenue surges at Sarasota video platform Rumble — along with a big loss

The company’s high-cost model led to a quarterly loss of nearly $29 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 10, 2025
$30M redevelopment heads to former Wimauma mobile home park

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Allegiant still pays for a Port Charlotte resort, a warehouse project comes to Tampa, and Ruskin apartments are getting refinanced.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 22, 2024
Tampa-area journalist and PR professional Nancy Howe dies

Nancy Howe, a prominent local journalist and business owner who for years published Tampa Bay Newswire and owned the communications company KnowHowe, has died. She was 73.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 2, 2026
Tampa Bay builder seeks to build 41 townhomes near downtown Sarasota

A new proposal for 41 townhomes is breathing new life into a partially built and then demolished multifamily project on Aspinwall Street in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 16, 2023
Former university official faces 20 years for siphoning payments

The school’s vice president created a company to take payments from the university for marketing work done by a New York company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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